Could it be that The reason the Aronofsky Noah angers conservatives so much is that he is a reflection of themselves? A man so utterly sin-crazed and justice-crazed he forgets the inherent goodness of man at the beginning? How angry would you be if your worldview was thrown up on the screen by an atheist and then bait and switched into a heracy? NOAH WAS WRONG. God did not see all humans as essentially evil, and God did not want him to kill everyone. MEN WERE INDEINAICALLY GOOD AT THE BEGINNING, a point forgotten by Noah and, incidentally, by the hyper conservative and sin-obsessed church today, ironically the group which has attacked the Noah film with the greatest vehemence. The reaction of the Noah film is not, as it seems, anger at the dubious wiles of a clever atheist filmmaker, he'll-bound to subvert True Christianity, but rather the working out of Conservative Christianity's self-loathing and hatred toward themselves as utterly worthless beings with no (original) value whatsoever outside of the grace of God. The heracy here isn't Gnosticism. It's anti-humanism, that of the Conservatives, and their vehemence against this film has served not to reveal the plots of an enemy of Christianity but to give rise to their own blasphemies against God and his creation.
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AuthorWill's Brainstorming Blog for his 2014-15 Essay Collection on World Religions in Film Archives
March 2015
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