Briebee72
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OK so let me start with IM not a believer in faith and religion and all that. My girlfriend is and we co exist with out conflict because we honor and respect each others choices and beliefs with out pushing them on one another. Sunday comes and she goes to church and I work on my car and all is good. But every now and then she is um hey watch this with me. IM like ok what we watching. She tells me its a story about faith and how there is always a plan and god is steering you and you just dont know it and ... it has aliens. IM like ok 
So we watch this movie and its not bad entertaining. She asks me what I though. I was are you sure you want to hear it? (she knows I have strong feeling son this topic). She says yes. OK disclaimer: I know this is a M night shyamalan movie with Mel Gibson. But with that said... Both of these men are religious and I am sure were making a point with the film. But my issue with religion and faith are very well illustrated with this film.
Anyway to my response. I said so basically god was trying to steer a father who had lost his way and lost his faith back to the correct path of faith by giving the main character signs he was unaware of to prove he was real and always there, or something like that? she said yes.
I said ok so in order to bring this man back to faith and back to the lord he... Killed his wife in a horrible accident, scared the poor man for life that killed her, has his son kill his own dog, gave his son asthma and health issue, his daughter a mental issue with being afraid of water and drinking it, his brother a laughing stock strike out king that got ridiculed, scared an entire planet with an invasion, had his house destroyed by boarding it up out of fear , his family attacked by aliens and put the family through emotion turmoil and fighting with each other questioning their love to the point the son wishes someone else was his father.... all to prove a point to one man? sounds like a loving god to me sounds more like bulling. she says yeah lets watch something else and dropped it.
My problem is most religious or faith based stories are all this way. Its always some form of bulling back to faith. Or making people completely suffer until they come back to god. Thats just bulling in my book.
Oh and another issue i had with it was in one part they say on the new after the aliens get there. Everyone is running to churches and their respective houses of prayer.... Um is not the fact that aliens just pulled up on your doorstep sorta a indicator that everything you believe is wrong when it comes to religion?
So we watch this movie and its not bad entertaining. She asks me what I though. I was are you sure you want to hear it? (she knows I have strong feeling son this topic). She says yes. OK disclaimer: I know this is a M night shyamalan movie with Mel Gibson. But with that said... Both of these men are religious and I am sure were making a point with the film. But my issue with religion and faith are very well illustrated with this film.
Anyway to my response. I said so basically god was trying to steer a father who had lost his way and lost his faith back to the correct path of faith by giving the main character signs he was unaware of to prove he was real and always there, or something like that? she said yes.
I said ok so in order to bring this man back to faith and back to the lord he... Killed his wife in a horrible accident, scared the poor man for life that killed her, has his son kill his own dog, gave his son asthma and health issue, his daughter a mental issue with being afraid of water and drinking it, his brother a laughing stock strike out king that got ridiculed, scared an entire planet with an invasion, had his house destroyed by boarding it up out of fear , his family attacked by aliens and put the family through emotion turmoil and fighting with each other questioning their love to the point the son wishes someone else was his father.... all to prove a point to one man? sounds like a loving god to me sounds more like bulling. she says yeah lets watch something else and dropped it.
My problem is most religious or faith based stories are all this way. Its always some form of bulling back to faith. Or making people completely suffer until they come back to god. Thats just bulling in my book.
Oh and another issue i had with it was in one part they say on the new after the aliens get there. Everyone is running to churches and their respective houses of prayer.... Um is not the fact that aliens just pulled up on your doorstep sorta a indicator that everything you believe is wrong when it comes to religion?
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