Posted on 08/26/2018 7:43:46 AM PDT by rktman
The pastor in First Reformed may work in a church, but his true god isn’t the Lord above.
It’s Al Gore.
Writer/director Paul Schrader’s film, available now on Blu-ray and other home video outlets, shares the story of a broken man’s quest for redemption. What emerges is the usual array of global warming talking points, the kind Hollywood can’t help inserting into its product ad nauseam.
It’s a shame, since First Reformed offers Ethan Hawke’s most powerful performance to date.
Reverend Ernst Toller (Hawke) oversees First Reformed, an antiquated church with a broken organ and empty pews. He’s content all the same, his daily chores letting him keep his emotional pain locked away, never to be explored again.
A woman named Mary (Amanda Seyfried, Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again) asks him to counsel her husband (Philip Ettinger), shattering Toller’s status quo. Her hubby is a budding eco-terrorist and father-to-be. It’s Toller’s job to show him why he should bring a child into this doomed world.
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The rank and file Christian Reformed Church (CRC) are good people. However, the “educated elites” with too much time on their hands, have turned that denomination into a cesspool of leftist ideals. They have an office of social justice! They are into climate justice, and all the bilge.
It is disgusting what leftists have done to the church I grew up in.
Sounds like Ekhart Tolle with slightly better Christian credentials.
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