The Fighting Sullivans Like many promotional motion pictures made in wartime, this one was very moving, especially when all five of the brothers died when USS Juneau was sunk by enemy action at the Battle of Guadalcanal in November, 1942.
Out came the tissues at the end.
It was disappointing to see the five brothers apparently walking up to heaven at the end.
This is quite offensive to many people I know, since I have little doubt that there is no place in heaven for men who kill other men, war or no war. (My family lost relatives in both world wars.) It's easy for a clergyman, who doesn't believe in a Creator anyway, to pray dead soldiers, criminals, even tiny infants, off to heaven saying God needed another angel.
What an insult to God! That posture says that God was directly responsible for the death of your loved one, or mine.
God does not seem to need more angels, he has over 100 million of them already. Anyway, if he decides he does need more, he is quite capable of creating them, without destroying the happiness of humans.
55 million lives were lost in World War II (about 15 million in World War I). Did God 'need' 70 million more angels? According to the information He has given to humankind, a provision has been made for all of the ones lost in war (as well as all others who have died in the past), to be restored to life, but life, not in heaven, but rather here on earth, (not immediately) after it has been restored to a condition of paradise.
Why would our Creator bother to make a promise, such as that found at Apocalypse/Revelation 21:4, if it was just a pipe dream, or pie in the sky? You will never hear this in any church, since the pastors do not believe this promise, nor any other that God makes. They would never admit it, because, no matter what they say, most of them are atheists.
Out came the tissues at the end.
It was disappointing to see the five brothers apparently walking up to heaven at the end.
This is quite offensive to many people I know, since I have little doubt that there is no place in heaven for men who kill other men, war or no war. (My family lost relatives in both world wars.) It's easy for a clergyman, who doesn't believe in a Creator anyway, to pray dead soldiers, criminals, even tiny infants, off to heaven saying God needed another angel.
What an insult to God! That posture says that God was directly responsible for the death of your loved one, or mine.
God does not seem to need more angels, he has over 100 million of them already. Anyway, if he decides he does need more, he is quite capable of creating them, without destroying the happiness of humans.
55 million lives were lost in World War II (about 15 million in World War I). Did God 'need' 70 million more angels? According to the information He has given to humankind, a provision has been made for all of the ones lost in war (as well as all others who have died in the past), to be restored to life, but life, not in heaven, but rather here on earth, (not immediately) after it has been restored to a condition of paradise.
Why would our Creator bother to make a promise, such as that found at Apocalypse/Revelation 21:4, if it was just a pipe dream, or pie in the sky? You will never hear this in any church, since the pastors do not believe this promise, nor any other that God makes. They would never admit it, because, no matter what they say, most of them are atheists.
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