Cronenberg’s THE FLY, Transporters, and Atheism

I’ve never been a big fan of David Cronenberg’s The Fly, preferring the 1950s version, but when this video came across my YouTube feed I was intrigued. I enjoy the analysis of Rob Ager and Collative Learning, and his suggestion that The Fly should be understood as have an atheistic subtext is intriguing. Although Cronenberg is an atheist, I would question, however, whether the idea that human beings are monistic (solely material) rather than dualistic (body and soul) in their anthropology neccesitates atheism. There are Christians, for example, who are monistic, holding a view called non-reductive physicalism. It could be that this is just another example of Cronenberg’s exposition of mortality through body horror, but given his atheistic starting point this interpretation would flow naturally from that philosophy. At any rate, enjoy the video.