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MrHambre
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06-20-2015 8:34 PM
Reply to: Message 1 by Greatest I am
06-19-2015 10:30 AM


God on Trial
Have you seen this rather well done movie?
I saw God on Trial when it was originally shown on PBS and thought it was extremely well done. I'm nonreligious, and I couldn't care less about the God-is-God-ain't debate. But the movie was like a Viktor Frankl adaptation of Sartre's The Wall, where devout Jews on the brink of annihilation in a Nazi death camp discuss how their fate affects the way they define The Big G. It was a very honest look at what faith ---the mystery of Being--- means to people confronting evil and nothingness.
That's what made the cop-out ending all the more disappointing: decades after the war, one of the survivors is touring the camp with his granddaughter. When she hears about the last prayer the inmates prayed to a God they only grudgingly worshipped, she asked the survivor if he thought the prayer had been answered. He gleefully responded, "We're still here, aren't we?" This facile epilogue betrayed the sincerity of the body of the film, which addressed the uncertainty and ambiguity of the tragedy instead of handwaving it away.
Oh, but you're just exploiting suffering as rhetorical ammo for your latest garbled rant? How unexpected.

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