"Clearly these peddlers of delusion scenarios, from Bostrom on down through history to his roots in the sophists and skeptics of ancient Greece, are not to be taken seriously. Their scenarios—filled with enough baseless assumptions and flaky speculation to make a locked-ward mental patient blush—are to be rejected as arbitrary.
"What is interesting, however, is what the literary projection of this viewpoint indicates about the actual nature of the skeptics' philosophy. What is most striking about The Matrix is that the delusion scenarios of skepticism coexist harmoniously with what is traditionally regarded as their philosophical antipode: religious mysticism.
"In recognition of this mysticism, an entire book—The Gospel: Reloaded, by pastor Chris Seay and Baylor University professor Greg Garrett—was dedicated to 'exploring spirituality and faith in The Matrix,' while a reviewer in Christianity Today, undoubtedly impressed with the film's many overt Christian references, picked The Matrix as one of the best movies of 1999...."
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