This film is classified as a documentary. Seriously, a documentary? No way. I went to the dictionary, maybe I was wrong. There it was... "Fact- based film that depicts actual events and persons". But further "documentaries can be a form of journalism or social commentary, or can be a conduit for propaganda or personal expression." Hmm. So I was right and wrong depending on the movie's agenda. OK.
Propaganda? Check! It certainly had all of that.
Did the movie change anyone's mind. No. Not anyone standing on the fence of whether to believe or not. In fact, it was a shameless portrayal of the clichés that one would hope to avoid in an honest presentation.
SPOILER ALERT!
1. Intellectual atheistic professor FORCING his students to deny the existence of God by signing a sheet of paper or they would be subject to lower grade failure.
*Any philosophy professor worth his salt tries to get you to THINK.... period. To question ALL things. None would say "THIS" is the way it is! And on day one of class! Laughable.
2. Muslim girl thrown out of her house by her "loving?" father for listening to the bible on her I-pod and without even a suitcase or a change of head gear. *A real opportunity missed here as the propaganda train rolls on, this time with present day moderate Muslims taking the hit. Now we can affirm that the stereotype that they're ALL really messed up.
3. The college student vs. the professor in the final scene where the question of how could a loving God do bad things to good people? Students answers triumphantly...free will. After all, god needs to know how you will act without his divine direction right?
*Interesting, an all-knowing all-powerful entity needing anything. God has needs? And just how does free will influence that town that gets destroyed by the tornado, or the drought that affects the starving children or in the cancer that affects the healthy body.
I will leave this with the most outrageous statement made in the film that caused me to really get upset. "Without God all manner of evil is permissible." Say what!!!? Only believers have ownership of morality?? Being a good person, a loving father, a civic minded citizen...all worthless without a god?
It is truly pathetic and scary that some people actually believe that nonsense! A horror documentary??... maybe.
Propaganda? Check! It certainly had all of that.
Did the movie change anyone's mind. No. Not anyone standing on the fence of whether to believe or not. In fact, it was a shameless portrayal of the clichés that one would hope to avoid in an honest presentation.
SPOILER ALERT!
1. Intellectual atheistic professor FORCING his students to deny the existence of God by signing a sheet of paper or they would be subject to lower grade failure.
*Any philosophy professor worth his salt tries to get you to THINK.... period. To question ALL things. None would say "THIS" is the way it is! And on day one of class! Laughable.
2. Muslim girl thrown out of her house by her "loving?" father for listening to the bible on her I-pod and without even a suitcase or a change of head gear. *A real opportunity missed here as the propaganda train rolls on, this time with present day moderate Muslims taking the hit. Now we can affirm that the stereotype that they're ALL really messed up.
3. The college student vs. the professor in the final scene where the question of how could a loving God do bad things to good people? Students answers triumphantly...free will. After all, god needs to know how you will act without his divine direction right?
*Interesting, an all-knowing all-powerful entity needing anything. God has needs? And just how does free will influence that town that gets destroyed by the tornado, or the drought that affects the starving children or in the cancer that affects the healthy body.
I will leave this with the most outrageous statement made in the film that caused me to really get upset. "Without God all manner of evil is permissible." Say what!!!? Only believers have ownership of morality?? Being a good person, a loving father, a civic minded citizen...all worthless without a god?
It is truly pathetic and scary that some people actually believe that nonsense! A horror documentary??... maybe.