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Did you ever see the movie ‘The Godfather’? Did you catch yourself halfway through the movie rooting for these killers? Many people did. As I’m sure it did for many people, it spurred a thought process within me - and one of the main conclusions was that such people were guaranteed to exist - a world far away from the comfort I thought of as reality - and that I preferred that at least these people had a set of morals, were human, and ultimately the people who they ended up hurting knew exactly what they were getting into, and most likely in at least some sense deserved thair fate.
Only right at the end of the film does that fact change, when a woman in bed with a gangster is (presumably) killed. Has even she made a bad choice about joining a world of easy money in exchange for a risk she knew existed?
It’s just a movie of course. Is life really like that in any sense? Is there a valid point there?
Certainly the end of the movie is all about that point, especially with Michael in the religious environment while everyone is being killed, with a face we haven’t seen before, I feel like the director really was laughing at his audience, saying “haha, I got you to support the devil”. But up until that point, he wasn’t the devil, so it was a bait and switch..
I think that the problem is that we, as a society, do not take the things of God seriously. I certainly didn’t until almost 20 years ago. Now when I see one of those movies that infers gratuitous sex and violence(I don’t watch the R rated porn), I feel sorry for the characters involved because the probability is great that neither they nor the actor portraying them will ever hear that God loves them and has a plan for their lives. All life is precious to the Lord, even what some would consider a “dirt bag biker”, and every sin is forgiven by God except blasphemy against the Holy Spirit.
My ministry is to tell everybody about Jesus and the need for repentance(change). Some of the very worst get it, some of the best do not.