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To: freestyle

I respectfully disagree. The movie made the world population (who believed his “lie”) out to be mind-numbed robots. And what was so pro-faith about calling God a killer? The only positive points that were made seem to be concerning receiving material things.


25 posted on 10/04/2009 2:30:45 PM PDT by Softballmom
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To: Softballmom
"I respectfully disagree. The movie made the world population (who believed his “lie”) out to be mind-numbed robots. And what was so pro-faith about calling God a killer? The only positive points that were made seem to be concerning receiving material things."

I'm curious about your perspective. The world population in this movie, from start to finish, never heard, could not comprehend and never uttered a statement that was not true. So they were not "mind-numbed robots", the simply are believers (but only by virtue of never having anything NOT to believe in).

And God is not called a killer in this movie. The "man in the sky" that is responsible for everything in the world was asked about... They asked if he creates natural disasters that kill people. The answer was YES. They asked if he's the reason people have been cured from cancer. The answer was YES.

These are questions that get asked of Christianity. And Christianity has answers for those questions.

I didn't think this was a great movie. I thought it was pretty average actually. But there was not a hateful or anti-religious message in there that I took away from it. I thought it illustrated how pointless life would be in a world WITHOUT faith.

Maybe we just came at it from different perspectives, but I didn't feel propagandized at all by the movie. (I was a bit bored because of the slow pace... but thought some of it was really funny.) I thought the scene where he gives his mother peace was illustrative of an underlying and undeniable truth.

26 posted on 10/04/2009 2:49:36 PM PDT by freestyle
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