What's Wrong With Being Athiest?

It was just to add drama and conflict to the movie, Hammer films did these kinds of things all the time, you shouldn't take a 1968 B horror film so seriously.

I was glad the film did not overtly cast atheism in a bad light though. Sure, from the perspective of the Monsignor it was bad, but the film's overall point of view did not do so.

He did give the sign of the cross at the end but I was worried he would be the one praying and that did not occur.


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You cant use cross agaisnt vampires.

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I think the monsignor was extremely religious so the fact that someone came to his house and denied the existence of God offended him very much so. I believe he interpreted it as Paul saying it was silly for them to believe in God because there is no possible way something like God could exist. That isn't what he was saying at all, but that's how the monsignor interpreted it.

Come, fly the teeth of the wind. Share my wings.

I think it is important to note that Paul realises the importance of Faith at the end.Hammer horror films were deeply conservative (and much the better for it I say !),Religon is always respected (although individual practitioners not necessarily so), the "old ways" shown to be effective,and of course,evil is defeated and the status quo restored by the end of the movie.

Gordon P. Clarkson

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Ultra religious people can at times be offended by what they perceive of as rejection of God, especially in the time and place of this film... My Grampa was not a priest, but quite religious and would've had a similar but milder reaction had I announced I was atheist at, say, thanksgiving dinner.

I am not an atheist, but I don't think there's anything wrong with it if the persons concerned are educated and honest.

The film did not really have a problem with Paul's atheism. We know he's an atheist from the start, and he's already being portrayed as courageous and sincere.

The script assigned Paul a character arc, however. After having seen supernatural vampirism as "the real deal", and seeing how the Count was vanquished and banished via total physical dissolution through liturgical means, Paul quite logically, given the story line, concludes that the supernatural, and supernatural evil, are real ... and that the Church was right about vampires and how they can and should be defeated. So embracing religion ends up looking like the sensible thing for Paul to do.