When Pagans Get Real

ABC's Once Upon a Time, now in its second season, has renewed widespread interest in fairy tales and myths—and perhaps unwittingly, even in the story of Christian faith. C. S. Lewis wrote that he recognized the truth of Christianity in part because it was something in which all the hints of pagan myths were fulfilled, but was obviously more history than myth.

While we must hesitate before associating Christianity too much with any pop-culture offering, Once Upon a Time regularly includes biblical themes and tensions that pull on the inner core of our psyches—perhaps evidence of deep longings planted by God and never forgotten. Once retells fairy tales in a modern context while addressing such themes as the fall of man and redemption and salvation.

On the show, our real world intersects with a mythological one in mysterious ways. The show's characters, all from popular fairy tales, live in a world without happy endings because they are all under a curse (echoes of Genesis 3). Hinting at a cosmic battle, the main antagonist, the evil queen of the Snow White story, has cursed the entire fairy-tale world in order to get revenge on the protagonist, Snow White, and has sent its inhabitants to our world. Snow's daughter, Emma, who came to our world as a baby, can break the curse and save everyone; characters in the show even call her "the Savior." She is awakening people to a knowledge of the battle in which they are engaged and their true identity, and weakening the power of the curse.

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Evermyrtle

The world today is under the "Curse of Satan" HIS WORD states tah it will continue to gro wore until JESUS returns for HIS people We will meet HIM in the air, those who are living after the dead have risen and met HIM. "WHAT A DAY THAT WILL BE' But the end is not quite ready to be ushered in. There are times coming like the world has never seen before.
Bob Koomans

The "curses" of Genesis, if one looks at it from a few different angles, to allow modern English understanding of it, must be related again to the 3rd Law in Exodus 20, which mentions curses again; this time use a modern word that fits the request – "Respect" for LOVE, and "DISRESPECT" for HATE. Thus we can SEE a little clearer the meaning of "cursed unto the 3rd and 4th generations of those who HATE….." – and that can mean that those curses continue leapfrogging each other 3-4 generations of the EFFECTS of disobeying God and insulting and disrespecting Him. The curses are, it seems, a curse of our own making, which can get worse each generation that refuses to obey God. That is WHY the "Dark Ages" happened, as the light of knowledge was absent in men. YET, God called Jesus to tell John through Revelations, for ALL who think that they follow The Christ and God, to "Come Out Of Babylon" (Also a Facebook page name) and get back to the Basics of the Commandment's meaning as Jesus taught, and cease using man's traditions and errors in place of God's Laws. (they are still required, even Jesus and all the Apostles taught that, in their different styles.)… So, if we cannot change to what God ordered, well, we will just have to live in the muck we allow ourselves and our Nations to get deeper in!
John Adams

If anyone thinks that "once upon a time" is doing Christianity a favor they really need to think twice. They are merely trying to put the truth of the Bible on par with the brothers Grimm, Han Christian Anderson, etc. They are, in reality, trying to discredit the Bible.
http://profiles.yahoo.com/u/QHRUML5XFH7AMSWH63TQH7F7E4 MalikTous

Modern Christianity appears to incorporate numerous versions of non-Christian myths because that was the way the edittors for the various versions and translations of the Bible could break down resistance to conversion in the earlier days; local legends were added to a basic decent message along with local prejudice and hate. Scrap all the homophobia and other hate trash in current Bible versions and the rest is actually a rather decent history adventure.
aceituna

Man likes to take truth and embellish it, such as how the fisherman talks about the great catch he made with the fish growing larger with every retelling. If one were to take the many legends that every race or people on this earth have and disect it, taking out the embellishments, one realizes that at the core of the legend is a truth. Usually a truth that leads back to the Garden of Eden. For me that is one proof that the Bible is the ultimate source of truth and that man's embellishments (encouraged by Satan) are result in the falsecation of history, showing how sin has wrecked our world.