Dark and Cold

Would you not sometimes have to wonder what this world has turned into? When the basics of good turn debatable to so many people, would your heart not be sadden? I have recently watched The Invention of Lying, and I feel sad. It was a comedy but I felt great pain: it’s another anti-Christian movie.

Here is the summary of The Invention of Lying: In a world that everyone tells the truth, Mark is an unfortunate man who gets fired, isolated, and kicked out of his apartment. But then he discovers the possibility of telling untrue things and manipulating people with his lies. He gets rich and successful. Many hopeless people when hearing him telling them positive things turn automatically happy and motivated. One day, he tells “lies” to his dying mother about “a life after death” (which sounds just like Heaven). Eventually, he comes up with an entire religion that many people blindly believe in and be corrupted. In the end, he tells the woman he loves how he has been lying and they then get married.
What now? After defying so many good things in Life, are we now to be convinced that telling lies is good and telling the truth is bad? To make things even worse, the movie ties lies to the words of Moses and further – the words of Jesus. How foolishly clever you are, Hollywood, for now you can tell millions of people that either Christianity is bad or the Christian beliefs are all lies!
Mark the liar, when more and more people wanted to hear about the life after death, wrote stuffs down on a piece of paper. Then he decided to make what he wrote look better by… writing them on two Domino pizza boxes (that would remind you of Moses’ two tablets.) Then he came out before the world and told people about his made-up religion which was irrational, flawed, but deliberately similar to Christian beliefs. Whoever hates God would really enjoy watching many people cursing and blaming about “the man in the sky” – as Mark portrayed.
Later on in the movie, when his love was not reciprocated, Mark sank in his depression for days. When he reappeared, his hair was long and – to my amazement – he looked like the image of Jesus. The savior of mankind was now equalized to one miserable liar. Just exactly how many more years will our Lord be hated and humiliated?
The Lord, His words, and His followers’ beliefs have been ridiculed in a quite despicable manner, and it’s amazing how many Americans can just simply laugh it off. “In God we trust,” the people say; they may as well continue with “and at God we laugh.”
I turn and look through the windows: the sky is pitch black and the air is freezing. It is as if this world is getting only darker and colder. It is as if at this very moment countless of people are laughing and shouting like this: “Hey God, thanks for the good Thanksgiving break with all the good food and shelter, now back off and let us make fun of you!”

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