Monday, July 20, 2015

PAUL

I started watching PAUL, with Seth Rogen and a couple British dudes I'm not familiar with.  I turned it off about 40 minutes in because I got sick of it.  I wouldn't dare state any "facts" about what transpires beyond the point at which I turned it off, it is a remote possibility that the film may have proven to have merit, but the fact that Kirsten Wiig's character is the only one in the film that comes across as a cardboard stereotype made it fairly easy to predict where the film was going.  Basically, Kristen Wiig is depicted as being stupid and childish because she believes in Christ Jesus and everyone else in the film is doing their part to steer her from ignorance etc.
  I can't believe anyone would be inspired by this film.  As far as I am aware, PAUL is not based on a true story.  Secondly, even if it were, just because an alien from outer space doesn't believe in God doesn't mean a damn thing.  People on this Earth that God created don't believe in God.  Does THAT prove anything?  Some people seem to think it does because it's easier to believe that the universe is a big meaningless pile of gunk than to ***READ*** and ***THINK***.  Thinking is fairly easy.  Listening to and/or reading someone else's thoughts and pondering them is much harder, which probably explains why fiction sells better than non-fiction, be it movies, books or stage plays...even movies and books that are "based on a true story" are often substantially truncated or fictionalized/romanticized to make the biopic at hand easier to relate to.
THIRDLY, The Bible does not mention aliens or weather they exist or not.  The opinions on aliens' existence held by Christians does not prove or disprove any passages in The Bible.  There are church groups that believe the events that took place on the day of Pentacost (often referred to as "speaking in tongues") cannot and will not ever happen again.  The Bible doesn't back this up nor does it refute it.  That is merely an OPINION held by some churches.

I read this Gallup Poll data that says just about everybody in this nation, Christian and otherwise, would not vote for an Evangelical Christian.  Since The Bible defines a Christian and an Evangelist as basically the same thing, I looked up the phrase "Evangelical Christian" online and was just as confused as I was to start with.  So I posted a question on Yahoo! Answers and nobody seemed to have an answer.  One guy said something about voting for someone who respects all people and all religions and some other guy posted this big hateful tirade about all the things wrong with Evangelical Christians.  Nothing anybody said answered my question.  The question, re-phrased so as to not intrude on Yahoo!'s intellectual copyrights, was "What sects of Christianity are against Evangelism?"  And then I referenced the information from Gallup's website.  It's really freakin' annoying how little you can learn from the internet.  There's maybe 1% of content on the internet that is genuine and noteworthy.  Everything else is lies, half-written truths and redundancy.


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