Robo Rebellion

Why do robot stories intrigue us? And why, so often, do they end up in the Robots rebelling against mankind? Eagle Eye, Meet the Robinsons, Wall-e, and I,Robot are all examples of this. 

A couple of the common themes in all of these stories are: 

-the created intelligence rebelling against mankind (the creator)

-the overcoming of the rebellious one (or ones) 

     These themes are reflected in the Bible. We see how God created man, He created man with intelligence and gave man the ability to choose to obey or disobey. The disobedience that happened when man ate of the fruit of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil was an act of rebellion.

    In effect man is reflecting this story (the story in the Bible) in the other stories listed above, just in a more imperfect light. Of course man wants to be God, so it is not surprising that we find man as the creator. (Also what else would be able to create the robots?) The robots represent us, in a way, since they choose to rebel. They choose to twist the rules a little bit and take liberties they were not originally designed to take. Sound familiar? (Perhaps like the eating the fruit that we weren't supposed to eat but we justified it by buying into a twisted truth. We then were no longer able to subdue the earth as we originally were designed to do.)

    After this the stories tend to get resolved usually in the destruction of the rebel robots in some way. If it was up to us and we were God I have no doubt we would have destroyed the rebellious creatures that we created. But God didn't and He continues to let us live. He didn't start over and didn't give up on us. He could have but He didn't.

     I think it's amazing that God has put up with us humans for so long. Thinking about God in this way reminds me of the fact that our ways are not God's ways (thankfully). He is so merciful and loving and patient ALL of the time. (Even to people who absolutely hate Him). It's so much more than any of us ever do on even a partial basis. 

    I would be interested to know your thoughts on this subject. Do you agree? Disagree? Have other thoughts? Feel free to comment below.