Posted on 04/02/2014 6:53:29 AM PDT by Star Traveler
But the movie crossed the line for me when it became clear that Moses believed the Creator’s mission was to wipe out humanity so that the Earth could be restored to its pristine innocence, a world with animals, but without mankind, the kind of hyper-environmentalism we have come to expect from Hollywood.
And that Noah believed the Creator was asking him not only to make a huge boat to save the animals, but also to murder his own grandchildren so that no women would remain to procreate, ensuring the demise of the human race.
In the end, with his knife poised over his newborn twin granddaughters, Noah could not bring himself to do it, and so he believed that after all his work and sacrifice building the ark, he ultimately failed in the mission the Creator gave him.
Hollywood turns the whole story on its head. Instead of a tale of the Creator’s grace to save mankind, and give the human race a fresh start, it becomes, at least in Noah’s eyes, a botched plot to eliminate mankind.
(Excerpt) Read more at tulsaworld.com ...
True ... and more evidence we’re losing the historical basis for our society - which has been rooted in Judaism and Christianity. That’s why we’re seeing so many liberals, leftists and Marxists.
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