For you non-Lost viewers I will not bore you with a long post, but will give a few spoilers on last night’s episode. Be warned. One thing I enjoy about Lost is the amalgamation of spiritual references the show does not shy away from. No, Otten would not endorse it. It is not a Christian allegory and borrows heavily from science, paganism and so forth. But Christian themes abound. Sayid had a sort of baptism last night, which actually killed him…until he rose again. The connection with Romans 6 was pretty apparent to me. Then there is the tension between Jacob and Ben. Jacob was a god to Ben, and when he lost faith because Jacob wasn’t responding, “killed him.”  Redemption and change is a major theme of the show. I suspect … Read entire article »