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On October 4, 1957, 10-year-old Stephen King, the future master of horror, was sitting in the movie theater in downtown Stratford, Connecticut.
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He and his friends were watching that fabulous 1950s sci-fi flick, Earth vs. the Flying Saucers.<\/em>
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A few years later I enjoyed the same movie at the Uptown Theater on the north side of Indianapolis.
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Earth vs. the Flying Saucer<\/em>s is not about intergalactic harmony, the Millennium Falcon, baby Yoda, or E.T. phoning home.\u00a0 The aliens piloting the flying saucers have come only to plunder the earth and create mayhem with their death rays.\u00a0
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Ray Harryhausen, the innovator of stop-action special effects, created the memorable flying saucer illusions for the movie.
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In the film\u2019s epic final showdown \u2013 every science fiction film of the time seemed to require a battle in which the fate of the earth hung in the balance \u2013 the saucers attack Washington, D.C.\u00a0 The heroes of the hour, America\u2019s scientists, finally figure out a way to bring them down.\u00a0 But not, of course, before a few D.C. landmarks are reduced to rubble.\u00a0
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King remembers that just before the big battle, the screen in the Stratford Theater suddenly went black. \u00a0The projector had been turned off.
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The house lights came up and the manager walked to the middle of the stage.\u00a0 King remembers that he looked nervous.\u00a0 What sort of catastrophe could have prompted the interruption of the Saturday matinee?
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The manager\u2019s voice trembled. \u201cThe Russians have put a space satellite into orbit around the earth,\u201d he announced.\u00a0 \u201cThey call it Sputnik.\u201d
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There was absolute, tomblike silence in the theater.\u00a0 All of a sudden reality had broken into fantasy.\u00a0 The Soviets had beaten us into space.\u00a0 Something was actually up there<\/em>, watching us.\u00a0 In the movies, America\u2019s scientists always win.\u00a0 Was it possible they would fail to prevail in the Real World?
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The lights went down again in the Stratford, and the movie came back on.\u00a0 But for Stephen King something had changed.\u00a0 He later realized that that was the moment in which he first understood the meaning of horror.\u00a0
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Horror is the pervasive sense that things are coming apart.\u00a0 And it\u2019s not a movie.\u00a0 And the world, which seemed safe a few minutes ago, turns out to be anything but.
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As a kid I loved the illusion of flying saucers crashing into the world\u2019s most famous buildings.\u00a0 Then came the Breaking News on 9\/11.\u00a0 Evil transformed an ordinary Tuesday into a day in which all of us remember what we were doing when we heard the news.
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One of my friends says, \u201cIt\u2019s called Breaking News because it threatens to break us.\u201d\u00a0 Normalcy-shattering news reports break our confidence that the world is a safe place.\u00a0
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What were the first words of Jesus\u2019 public ministry, as reported in Mark 1:15?\u00a0
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\u201cRepent\u201d (that is, change the way you\u2019re thinking and behaving) \u201cand believe the Good News\u201d (that is, the breaking news that God is breaking into this broken world to bring healing and peace).
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No one can say what news flashes we\u2019ll hear in the days ahead.\u00a0 All we know is that they will not break God\u2019s purposes.
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For the Real Story of the world is definitely not a horror story.

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