I Used To Believe in God
And then man ruined everything. Thoughts after watching the new film, Heretic.
Why do we believe? Is it because we were born and told there was a god and accepted the word as fact? It must be true because an elder says it so. Or do we need to cling to something, anything, that can explain the magic that is life? An explanation for the world and everything in it. Do we need stories to explain our existence and give us the comfort of a well-earned afterlife? Because it can’t be that we kick our way out of the womb to only slip quietly back to the vast nothingness from which we’ve come?
Do we believe because the idea of coming from nothing to journey home to nothing is unimaginable?
Heretic, a fantastic religious horror film starring Hugh Grant, is one of those rare gems that actually explores a real intellectual discourse on the nature of belief systems. Two Morman missionaries attempt to convert a reclusive Grant to then realize not only does he know a great deal about their faith, but he aims to challenge it in unimaginable ways.
