[nathanbedford]

You know, I never got that. Maybe that's why ET was absolutely wasted on me. I never saw the point of it and I thought it was typical Hollywood clandestinely undermining faith in a higher being by substituting a kind of feel-good relativism.

I see this so many times in so many movies in which a very secular kind of salvation is substituted for a real kind that perhaps a gun shy.

[Borges]

Well you could say that about ‘2001’ and Close Encounters as well. A lot of Science Fiction deals with ‘God like’ figures.