evan almighty
This evening I watched the movie Evan Almighty starring Steve Carrell. I may not have given it my full attention, but a few things stuck out.
Clearly this movie is too spoofish to really be called truly religious, but while religion is made light of, I thought some of the themes were disturbing. Morgan Freeman as God meets Evan's wife (name already forgotten) and says that the story of Noah's Ark is not about God's wrath, but his love.
Are you kidding me? This was so absurd, I nearly choked. It's a nice platitude, but it doesn't align in the slightest with what's in the Bible. Frankly, it's stories like these of a capriciously vicious God that helped turn me away from religion. Even as a pliant worshipper, I saw nothing cheery about the obliteration of nearly all of humanity.
Nice try making a comedy out of it, but don't BS me. If even the goofy Morgan Freeman God of this movie were real, he's got a lot to answer for.
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