The newer filmmakers seem to have internalized the lesson of Star Wars in placing their conflict in a broad mythological context, knowing that this has the potential to reach the audience more profoundly than the more secular approach practiced by the Irwin Allen films, where fire and water represent fire and water. (filmfreakcentral.net)
His concern is that Buddhist and Christian spirituality stand over against a simply secular approach. (religion-online.org)
Indeed, it takes a rather secular approach to religion, demonstrating how it can both empower and cripple, teach and obfuscate. (cinemadope.com)