jacobb1313 wrote:Ah! here we are. So the conversation and list should focus on those films that hint at an underlying, ultimate Power / Truth, particularly those movie texts lacking the trappings of religious iconography or dogmatic couching into said belief structures.
Just sain'. What movie from the religious point of view favors reason instead of resorting to (blind) faith and using the straw man fallacy? (Most atheist arguments do the same thing btw.)
[/quote]Yes, via total blind faith.
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The problem is that because all revealed religions are prevarications, we were only watching people being idiotic because they've been taught to blindly follow their feelings instead of guiding them with reason.
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Paul is the beast of revelation, not as revealed by God, but as judged by the original Jewish followers of Jesus who remained Jews. Christianity should rightly be called Paulism.
Indeed. That's rather presumptuous. And looks quite a lot like blind faith.
If you're talking about Paul, there's so much hard evidence against him that's surfaced recently, including the Dead Sea Scrolls and his enmity with James, not to mention what's in the Bible, there's no doubt about his anti-Jerusalem church, pro-self, Herodian, Roman stance. No need for faith at all. Not that the early Jerusalem Jesus' followers were right about their Hebrew "divinely revealed" religion being right, just that they were less wrong--by a million miles.z
I could hardly scratch the surface here, but if you're really interested, I can provide the sources.
