I guess we can sum up from the perspective of the Grim reaper that this movie comes from that of an atheist....When we die it is nothing like this movie tries to show us. The best part of this movie was the Casting of Lisle ...She embodied the movie and captured the audience....
shareWhat would be your argument for having God in the story?
shareDeath exists, God does not.
shareWell, I guess if we can have a guy in a black cape and carrying a scythe, we can have a guy with a white beard and white robe floating around on a cloud.
sharePerhaps, in the same way the movie anthropomorphized Death by making him a sentient entity with a voice, man anthropomorphizes God.
shareOh really? So tell us, what was it like when you died?
I got girls up here do more tricks than a god damn monkey on a hundred yards of grape vine.
"Where was GOD?"
This is exactly the question that many Jewish survivors of the Holocaust asked, so it's fitting that this movie would evoke the same question.
God was not responsible for the Holocaust. Sinful MEN were. He gave us all free will and some choose evil paths and some choose good paths. Hitler and Lisle were two different people, choosing different paths for their lives. The where was God question comes from ignorance. He's in heaven, not on sinful earth. If you believe in God you know that death is NOT the end, in fact once souls get to heaven they wouldn't want to come back to this dire, sinful earth for all the money in the world. Earth is not paradise - heaven IS.
shareGod was responsible for the Holocaust for the simple reason that he could have easily prevented it but did not. His divine protection blessed Hitler for many years, even unto saving Hitler from several assassination attempts. So God 1) did nothing to prevent the Holocaust and 2) seems to have actively supported the Third Reich from 1938 and even earlier. Two cheers for God.
shareMore than anything else, this sounds alot like the Holohoax, or Hitler-incarnate, sent by heaven to "bring order" to Germany, to give the country the BAB and rescue it from its economic crisis.
shareSatan is "the god of this world" 2 Corinthians 4:4. Not God the Father, not Jesus Christ the Son. So Satan had everything to do with Hitler and the Holocaust because HE is in control of this earth. And why is that? Because the people rejected Jesus Christ as Savior so He was crucified, died, was buried, resurrected, and ascended at the right hand of His Father until "His enemies become His footstool" (future Armageddon).
Now this biblical lesson will go right over the heads of stupid people like bastasch who probably hasn't been inside a church in decades or cracked open a Bible to study it EVER.
Oh, get a life.
BBL
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Good luck with that...hate much?
If you give a mouse a cookie...it's gonna want a glass of milk.
He was not invented. You need to stop your atheist hate business because you have your right to your beliefs, and the rest of the world has their rights to whatever they believe. People around the world believe in hundreds of different religions, or no religion at all. And if everyone would just stop and quit worrying about who worships who, what, or anything,and just be friendly with each other, there would be no more war and hate. So believe what you wish, but respect others beliefs too.
you may belief in what you want: me, Odin, Buddha, God, Jehova, Allah or what your god is called. but please keep it to yourself and don't enforce your believe onto others.
having said that the most dangerous thing is people who interprete their religion wrong and make attack in his name.
Boston, Paris, Copenhagen and Bruxelles
I am very sad...and I am sure your god would be sad as well.
The character of Death definitely appears to be more from an atheistic perspective. And in this film only Jewish aiding, generally sympathetic, German people, are seen to die. The blonde head boy had his days numbered when he's seen to walk under a ladder in one scene. This film points out that Death itself takes no sides and nor can an entire people, whether Germans in general or German Jewish / Jewish people, be stereotyped. But, if there is a God , God also takes no sides in terms of when to take you. The physical world , of people and things, seems to make that decision or accidentally, or be more likely to, cause that result. Words are seen as, or used as, weapons but a word itself doesn't kill you. Very individual decisions do and when national socialism invites individuals to love this and hate that, people get painfully killed on the hinge of a stereotype. And that happens to civilians or groups in many wars. But hate , strangely, also breeds internal, if not extermal, love just like the human body naturally concerns itself to try to heal a wound. Love, and God, are not made impossible by what life is sometimes like.
shareHow is god narratively necessary to the story?
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