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Religious Propaganda

posted 17 years ago by Helloween07
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Was it necessary to keep harping on people who don't believe in god?

The guy actually said he wouldn't have dinner with a person because she was an atheist. Can you imagine if a person said they'd avoid any christian? christians would protest in the street at "anti-christian" propaganda, but anti-atheism is acceptable?

And he kept harping on it... "if you're still an atheist, you should change you mind soon."

What was his obsession with trying to turn her away from atheism. Wat type of propaganda bulls*** was this?

[–] Zikten 17 years ago

because, if your fighting a ghost, it's pretty much been proven that the soul exists. thats why he said "might be time to reconsider your lack of beliefs"

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[–] There_is_no_god07 17 years ago

essential to the plot? Nah, it was an attempt for the religious right to once again ridicule non-believers.

[–] daydreamer021979 12 years ago

Well atheists do the same to believers all the time so I guess turnabout is fair play. Personally I think people just need to respect other's right to believe as they choose without all the hostility, jokes and name calling.

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[–] PurpleNiobe 17 years ago

Could you imagine standing at the mouth of that cave, after spending all of your savings on that trip, only to have that ridiculous broad give you a shoulder shrug and a vapid look when you ask her if the corpse's soul was now at peace?

That actually annoyed me as well. I don’t put all the blame on her though. I couldn’t help but wonder why during the length of time it took for him to recuperate at the hospital and save up money to fly to Brazil, why didn’t he bring up the issue of whether or not the souls were at peace even if they destroyed the ashes?

I honestly couldn’t decide it that was a poorly thought out ending or an accurate depiction of how people don’t plan ahead. After all, she was in a panic and all she could thinking about was destroying the body before it killed her and her boyfriend. At the time traveling all the way to brazil with body parts didn’t even cross her mind.

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[–] dialsoapuser 16 years ago

The fact that she wasn't religious was brought up a few times, but I don't think I would consider it harping. In fact, I kind of took it as though he was teasing her a little---as in, if it wasn't her atheism, it would have been something else. Maybe I just didn't see it in the right way, though.

And I'm not religious, myself.

[–] BoxOfficePoison 8 years ago

I'm an atheist, and the asking-out scene only annoyed me once Allison opened her mouth. "I believe in myself" I took to mean "I rely on myself, as opposed to relying on gods." OK, I'm with you there. But then she didn't clarify or correct him when he interpreted her comment as self-worship.

Then there was "The human mind is too primitive" to understand human origins. I might understand that coming from an agnostic, arguing that we can never know whether or not there are any gods, but I would expect an intelligent, capable, scientifically educated, avowed atheist to give more credit to human intellect. Everyone has the right to their own opinions, but to me, it sounded like a cop-out.

On the other hand, I probably couldn't write a very believable religious person, so maybe the screenwriter was just in an awkward position.

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