Angels & Demons: A Rationalist Perspective

Post 9-11 Hollywood is consumed by two intersecting ideological crises. The glut of ideological-moral-ethical-social and religious discourses emerging from contemporary Hollywood represents a profound transformation in the way America reflects on the dynamics of secularism (and secular humanism) inherent in America’s Constitutional values but undermined by a Born-Again Christian President. Indeed George W. Bush’s War on Terror was motivated by Theist belief, the deliberate error of referring to it as a “crusade” for freedom being not only inappropriate but a coded message to his Religious Right power base.