Jackie Lentz: Blog #9 Northfork

I liked the images in the film. The church scene especially, I feel like anyone who heard a sermon with that view right behind the pastor would have a stronger faith for it. I feel like just having a tree growing in the middle of a church auditorium would be good enough. Because even though the sermons remind you of the grace and goodness of God, some Sundays, seeing a living example of the detail he puts into his creations would take my breath away every time I saw. The image of people talking the wings off of young angels was really sad too. It reminded me of the phrases by Niche, "God is dead" and "we have killed him." Now honestly I have no idea what Niche means by these phrases, but it always makes me think of how we hide behind the thought of I think this is what God wants, or doing things in the name of God, and in that sense we have killed all that was good about him. God is dead because we no longer believe in the old God, the scary God of the Old Testament who still demanded love and loved us despite our faults. We believe in a scary God, but he has become unjust and uncaring. There are lines in movies, like Final Destination, where a character notices not only a baby is on board a plane but also a handicapped person as well and makes the comment that it would take a screwed up God to take down their plane. And then he does! So is it our short sightedness, our own failure to see positivity in our tragedies, that made us kill him? Or is it our wonder with the world we have now, that we claim has just involved from nothing on its own, that took him from us? Are we too busy congratulating ourselves, collecting baby angel wings, to see that we have become Godless? And does that make us worse off? I think it does. At the end of the film, the sacrifice, or work of the salesmen did not seem worth the reward.