#yes it could be a take on nuns etc who don't even believe anymore etc but
Explore tagged Tumblr posts
Text
You can basically bet your life on the fact that as soon as a tv show/movie starts to deal with explicit themes and ideas of christianity, it employs the most infantile concepts and perspectives on and of those ideas.
Which is such a shame to anybody who has ever embarked on a spiritual (christian or other) path that goes beyond a childish belief system and digs deeper into mysticism etc..
Those movies/tv shows aren't "wrong"... In a way, they just copy the prevalent concept of non-believers what it means to belief in a "christian" god ...or whatever. Mostly it's a a very strict black/white belief structure that's typical for what you believe as a child. You could also argue that many who call themselves practicing christians, never go beyond that stage.
The actual more mature, more chaotic, more complex B E L I E F s are so much more interesting and complicated.
Faith in many/most cases isn't just a dumb excuse to ease yourself into accepting death LOL. I mean...yes, there are a lot of dumb christians but ...that level of idiocy is reserved for the infantile bunch with their ongoing projection of daddy issues onto god and their obsession with formalities and whatnot. Anyway...people do not only trick themselves into some shit. They all know that death will come for them. What makes them believe is a freedom in the here and now that is not fixated on the idea of paradise or ressurrection (which is a thing that noone can fully grasp in any detail) AFTER death, necessarily. A freedom rooted in a deep sense of belonging, not to a group or even a set of rules. But a belonging to the whole, to everyone and everything. ;-)
#I loved The Leftovers but when it dealt with what supposedly a modern priest believes I was like.......#PLEASE DO SOME RESEARCH#same goes for soooooo many movies#watched white noise last night and loved it but once again#yes it could be a take on nuns etc who don't even believe anymore etc but#that's so rare#believing in G*D doesn't mean to knowingly believe in magic or something that “doesn't really exist”#ROFL#It's so much more rooted in actual life with a pinch of mystery...#the problem is with stories that incorporate christian faith but only add the childish version#the instantly become sort of dumb lol#in that moment#I'm not saying I don't like white noise for that tine little thing#but it's....a thing#in the end to me it's a sign of how christianity basically killed itself with all its stupidity and the whole roman catholic bullshit thing#not to forget protestant pietist bullshit that paved the way for shitty neoliberal capitalist colonial systems#that basically killed entire ecosystems
6 notes
·
View notes