re: Best religious movies you've seen?

Fireproof

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It could be argued that any good film is religious because all art is religious and a good film is art

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What in the green frick are you talking about? So basically you are asking what our favorite movies are since apparently all film = art = religion.

Can we ban this troll yet?

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Can any of the Superman movies be considered religious or at least based on Christianity?

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No, because Superman was created by Jewish guys and was meant to be a metaphor for Jewish immigrants (among other things). Granted, Jesus was Jewish, but...

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Dumb and Dumber - CLEARLY the story of Job told through the adventures of Harry and Lloyd

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A Man for All Seasons
The Virgin Spring
Jesus Christ Superstar

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BTW...
Im very familiar with PAUL TILLICH ..

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Just frickin' witchu, mang. TulaneLSU has an extremely pedantic, limited, and fallacious view of the world and believes because things coincidentally overlap in the broadest senses of philosophy, that correlation equals direct influence, re: Tillich.

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Why do you not believe Shawshank Redemption is a religious film? Its very name grabs at the center of Christianity. But since you insist, let's look at the movie's theme, which I think we can both agree is hope.

At the beginning of the movie, we're introduced to a skeptic's view of hope, presented by Red: "Let me tell you something my friend. Hope is a dangerous thing. Hope can drive a man insane." (Contrast this statement to Andy's letter under the tree: "hope is a good thing, maybe the best of things, and no good thing ever dies.") For Red, his experience in prison has led him to this conclusion. Its the only truth he possesses; salvation, or rather, redemption, is impossible for the person without hope. And each time he goes before the parole board, we see the fruits of this philosophy.

Andy, on the other hand, is Red's rabbi and a man punished for a crime he did not commit. While Andy works for his own freedom from within, he understands at a deeper level that he was sent to be imprisoned for a purpose: to save. To save Red that is, and to bring justice to the hypocrites. In the beginning, we think Andy is being led by Red, but as the movie pushes forward, we understand it was the other way around.

How can we forget that revealing dialogue between the two where Andy recognizes the eternal beauty and religious nature of the arts, namely of music?

Andy: That's the beauty of music. They can't get that from you. Haven't you ever felt that way about music?
Red: I played a mean harmonica as a younger man. Lost interest in it though. Didn't make much sense in here.
Andy: Here's where it makes the most sense. You need it so you don't forget.
Red: Forget?
Andy: Forget that there are places in this world that aren't made out of stone. That there's something inside that they can't get to, that they can't touch. That's yours.
Red: What're you talking about?
Andy: Hope.

Hope is the part of the person that counts, and Red knows this and its this theft of what counts that makes Red so angry at the beginning of the movie. It's what makes him so hopeless. Men often hate what they want yet do not have; what has been taken from him. So bitterness and cynicism drive Red's character until the near end when he realizes what has saved Andy: hope. He realizes and understands what St. Paul wrote to the church in Rome: "For in hope we were saved. Now hope that is seen is not hope. For who hopes for what is seen? But if we hope for what we do not see, we wait for it with patience."

Hope saved Andy, and Andy's life of hope ends up saving Red. And in the movie's last scene, we see Red articulate his new world view: "I find I'm so excited, I can barely sit still or hold a thought in my head. I think it's the excitement only a free man can feel, a free man at the start of a long journey whose conclusion is uncertain. I hope I can make it across the border. I hope to see my friend and shake his hand. I hope the Pacific is as blue as it has been in my dreams. I hope." Red's conversion is complete. He has been redeemed.

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