"The Matrix is everywhere, it's all around us, here even in this room...It's the world that has been pulled over our eyes to blind us from the truth." - Morpheus

The single most important theological truth revealed in St John's Gospel is that there is a greater reality beyond `the world.' The Matrix offers the same double world-view; a world which is based on illusion and a real world of truth. Parallels between The Matrix and John's gospel can also be found in the characters, themes, symbols and what they tell us about the nature of truth.

The character Neo portrays a collage of messiah images. The name Neo is a prefix added to words to mean new as in neo-orthodoxy. He represents the new messiah. Neo is also an acronym for `one,' Neo is `The One.' He is the one to make things...