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MJ
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Date: April 20, 2015 11:17PM
I just watched the 1953 version of "War of the Worlds". I hadn't watched the movie in some time.
When it got to the end where it started with the "We prayed for a miracle" and "God in his infinite wisdom" I wanted to hurl.
God had the power to stop the aliens, but god waits until the human race is blown back to the Stone Age, the major cities of the world are destroyed, millions if not billions a are killed or injured?
Then everyone is gushing with thanks that God did not stop the invasion at the start, preventing all the suffering, but waited until the human race was on the verge of annihilation before stepping in?
Yeah, I guess one could say that at least god didn't let humans get totally annihilated and we should be grateful, but this time it just came across as bad faith promoting propaganda.
The sad thing is, having the religion angle didn't really add anything to the movie (other than faith promoting propaganda). You could remove all the religious stuff and it would still hold together as a good movie for the time. Just edit out the religious stuff and it is the same story, it just does not credit god. It's like god was added as an afterthought.
Leaving the religious part our would let people credit their own beliefs. The religious could credit the which ever god it is they believe in, the non religious could credit evolution...
Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 04/20/2015 11:21PM by MJ.