Creepy God Movie

How legitimate is a blog post about a movie that I have not actually seen more than two minutes of? Who cares, since no one is rating this blog for legitimacy?

So I was checking the movies showing yesterday on TV, and came across a super strange movie description. The movie was called 'Legion' and the description said something like 'God loses faith in humanity and sends a legion of angels to destroy the world.'

!!!!????

There were so many questions. How is that a plot? Does the whole movie consist of angels destroying people? Or does if it starts with that, what possible 'after' could they portray? And what kind of God is that anyway?

All these questions led me to stay on that channel for a grand total of two minutes in which I saw this:

TVs and radios are not working in a small country bar in the US. People start freaking out. Little old woman comes in, and knows everyone's names and personal details and charmingly greets them, until the waitress comes to serve her and little old woman asks her "How far along are you?" She's pregnant... and NOT married. (Start getting scared.) Old woman continues to look sweet and old and says "It's going to burn." Everybody turns in shock. "The baby's going to burn."

Suddenly everything gets VERY creepy and old woman transforms into horrific destroying monster.

At this point I come back to my senses and switch channels very fast.

What the HECK?

I don't even know what to say. I GUESS that was supposed to be a horror movie..? Or something?

But those two minutes made me think of several things:

1. Ohmygosh THANK GOD God is NOT like that. God has never given up on us. He is not waiting, watching, and getting more and more frustrated with our sinfulness, about to explode with anger at a world gone mad. Maybe some of our dads have acted like that, but God is not a cold, angry judge. Even hell, which people think of as God's judgment is NOT! It is a self-inflicted judgment. That means anyone who goes to hell CHOOSES hell. (Yes, I know too many caps.) God doesn't force anyone to accept Him, and He respects our freedom. A quote I read: 'God is not against us because of our sin, God is with us against our sin." He's trying to save us from ourselves.

2. This is what some people really think religion is. If you don't follow the rules, God will punish. (And maybe we will, if He won't.) That's probably what leads some people (Christians?) to throw their pregnant children out of their homes. That's a cold, unmerciful religion which looks NOTHING like a God, slow to anger, abounding in steadfast love. But if that's what people think God is, no wonder they want nothing to do with religion.

3. Being an unwed mother is NOT a sin. Having a baby out of wedlock is NOT a sin. Having SEX before marriage is the sin, not having the baby. It is beautiful to see women who choose to keep those babies, and all the people who love and support such women. The point of Christianity is grace and redemption. No matter how far you've gone, there is ALWAYS a way back to God. There is no unforgivable sin. 'It doesn't matter where you've been or what you've done, what matters is where you go from here' according to Crystallina Evert, a chastity speaker. That's also why Catholics don't support the death penalty (except in extremely rare circumstances).

Okay, that's it. Weirdest blog post you read this week, I'm sure.