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To: bradactor
This movie was unintentionally a stunning example of the contradiction in religious faith.

The theme returned to over and over was whether you believed there was someone out there looking after you or not.

The unspoken yet unavoidable corollary is that the same entity "looking out for you" is also the one throwing the arrows at you in the first place.

No religion satisfactorily deals with this contradiction. They dance around it. This movie didn't even mention it -- it couldn't mention it. That would turn it into the theater of the absurd. Religion's dark secret remains undiscussed.

9 posted on 08/04/2002 8:01:50 PM PDT by jlogajan
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To: jlogajan
No religion satisfactorily deals with this contradiction.

Calvinism.

12 posted on 08/04/2002 8:57:08 PM PDT by OrthodoxPresbyterian
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To: jlogajan
"The unspoken yet unavoidable corollary is that the same entity "looking out for you" is also the one throwing the arrows at you in the first place."

God is God. He can do as He sees fit.

25 posted on 08/05/2002 3:53:40 AM PDT by zadok
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To: jlogajan
No religion satisfactorily deals with this contradiction. They dance around it. This movie didn't even mention it -- it couldn't mention it.

The universe is so constructed that the evidence is almost evenly balanced. The elect rejoice in God's provision, while still getting lots of opportunities to "walk by faith and not by sight." The reprobate can make a hobby of collecting plenty of excuses to damn themselves with.

The Christian paradigm of a creation that was originally good, later corrupted by the side-effects of the fall, and currently in the state of being redeemed, is emotionally and intellectually satisfying. In our view, the Creator "wrote Himself into the story," and suffered personally the effects of the fall -- then overcame them.

37 posted on 08/05/2002 5:55:58 AM PDT by TomSmedley
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