Read about ‘A Coming One-World Religious System’

… and other things, at the 274th Christian Carnival (get some cotton candy while you’re there)

‘Warning: ‘Antichrist’ movie tricking Christians’

Joe Kovacs, WorldNetDaily

The movie in question: Zeitgeist

World population may begin to shrink in 2040

Al Mohler discusses ‘The Real Population Threat‘

Survey: Only 11% of Americans believe world will end in their lifetime

Baptist Press (HT: Civitate)

Why The Dark Knight was actually more hopeful than WALL-E

Carissa Smith, Christ and Pop Culture

NASA warns solar storms in 2012 could cause earthly catastrophe

Robert Britt, FOX News (HT: Rod Dreher)

‘Day the Earth Stood Still’ director on his theology of environmentalism

An article at Beliefnet’s Idol Chatter by Rebecca Cusey:

“‘In the original,’ explained [director] Derrickson, ‘it was the cold war, the fact that we in a perilous situation where we were possibly going to destroy ourselves literally, through nuclear weapons. We do have another peril we are bringing upon ourselves with the destruction of our environment. It’s serious and it’s real and it’s something that I thought made sense in terms of updating the story.’”