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God is so cool and awesome that even when you use a pronoun to refer to Him, you are supposed to capitalize it. It's a rule!

I read it for school (obviously) and I managed to finish it because it was pretty short, but I hated every page.

If I can be cool with dietary restrictions, I can be cool about other things. I don't have to share a person's beliefs in order to understand why they hold them, or why those beliefs give people strength.

Hey now. Just because Jesus told people to turn the other cheek doesn't mean he couldn't start some shit. He upended the social order and founded a revolution that has lived on long, long past His lifetime.

God's usually a "big picture" guy, though. He reveals Himself to leaders (or people who become leaders) and prophets and the like, in order to get His message out to as many people as possible. Focusing on one guy, be it Sam Worthington or Jim Carrey or Steve Carrel, just seems so unlike Him.

Excellent points. Now, how many porn stars can dance on the head of a pin?

Every other line is someone beseeching God. Yet their prayers are never answered. Why?

Much as I love Morgan Freeman, the presence of Jim Carrey, and again, the way God goes out of His way to teach a lesson to one single person, made me steer far, far, away.

Actually that sounds reasonable, as far as religious justification goes.

What's so special about these modern Christians that they get direct one on one time with God? I mean, even two thousand years ago when God was trying found a religion, He sent his only begotten Son to do all the heavy lifting. Has God mellowed in His old age? Is He just visiting every person on Earth one at a time?

He seemed to do well in The Ten Commandments, too. I think most of God's cool scenes occur in the Old Testament, anyway.

Human beings evolved in Africa, so it stands to reason that if God exists, He is most likely not white, no.

Really? A job is a job. I don't think the guy playing Spider-Man believes that Peter Parker would really gain super powers from a radioactive spider bite. Why can't a Jewish person pretend to be Jesus?

In a way, God is in every movie. It's just that the ones specifically about Him tend to be poorly written, crappily shot, and shoddily acted. Poor guy, God just can't catch a break.

Johnathan Livingston Seagull. Holy fuck did I hate that fucking book.

I think you need Boxleitner if you're going to call your movie Tron. He's the titular character! I don't think Tron even appeared in Tron 2. Did he?

I had Paxton's WTF? interview in my queue when he died. So I immediately listened to it. You know what, gang? Bill Paxton was seriously a great guy, and it's very sad that he's gone.

I think that was the joke I was making.

Water Babies. It was based on a Victorian novel that my brother gave me a copy of for my birthday last year. It is completely unreadable, although apparently quite popular when it was written.

This wasn't written in the 70s. Nobody writing comics now has any nostalgia for them.