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# A Moral Multiverse
- URL: https://sethquant.com/a-moral-multiverse/
- Published: 2022-05-16T12:58:00.000Z
- Updated: 2022-09-25T13:00:29.000Z
- Author: Seth Quant
- Tags: Reflections

**Longer emails and longer meetings aren't always better.** (But they aren't \*always\* worse either.) Our Japan team is in the process of revising our meeting and project management rhythms.

**Thanks for all your support in advancing Jesus's Kingdom in Kawasaki!** Sometimes, missions looks like talking about the effectiveness of our process and programs as a cross-cultural team. We believe God is honored by excellence in serving Him and others.

Japan's favorite grouping of National Holidays is in the first week of May.  
This mega-break gets a shiny, English-friendly name: "Golden Week." 🏅

**Some Golden Week conversations with our young adults were about:**

- Dr. Strange and the alarming number of false ideas in Marvel's new movie
- Franz Jägerstätter's moral courage and sacrificial faith presented in "A Hidden Life."

**You can put as many multiverses in movies as you like.** But, ultimately, a good judge will never resolve all the tragic messes that drive the infinite, million-dollar drama of the Marvel cinematic universe.

Fortunately, God graciously provides perfect, rectifying justice for our own world.

**It's alarming when major movies intentionally exist in a separate moral universe from our own.** After all, we interpret characters as good guys (or not) based on our actual moral compass.

**Morality is tied to making meaning of the world.** Of course, good writers play with expectations and values to create suspense and drama.

**Global blockbuster films subtly change or reinforce the moral values of society over time.** It's hard to say the media we consume is strictly a thermometer when directors with agendas use media as a thermostat for culture.

**This is not to say that media cannot be used correctly. It can be. "**A Hidden Life" is an excellent example of films asking probing and relevant questions concerning the moral make-up of men and women.

**But, it's dangerous when moral universes are not grounded in reality.** When fiction starts to drift away from hardcoded XX and XY reality, it is a problem.

At the end of the day, fictional lands are leaky proofs of an author's soul. "Out of the abundance of the heart, the mouth speaks."

**What are some movies that you've found to be difficult to watch recently?**