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Yet another apocalyptic movie came out this week.  I love them, by the way,  Good escapism, lots of gratuitous violence,   and I love to see recognizable communities reduced to ruins! I'm waiting for a film some day of a great book from the 50s called Earth Abides. Best apocalyptic novel I've ever read.     Stewart was a history prof from Cal. Beside the point. ARM citizens would be interested in one part of the move book of Eli though. ***SPOILER alert***** . . .. .. The story makes it clear eventually that Eli has some sort of divine power, he's not just deluded, or has some immense human skills.   At one point in the film he claims  that the population after the war burned every bible they could find because they blamed the bible for starting the war.    This is similar to many of our atheistic claims, of course, and should make fundies very happy. Eli has been wandering in the desert for 30 years, so there is no ambiguity that he is either a prophet, or perhaps an allegory for god himself. The allegory is good,   he meets various tests of faith,  and of course has to battle violent elements with extreme violence. So during the movie I'm shaking my head, the theists will love this stuff . After the film I started chuckling.   so will the atheists . To me, no matter what the intent, the story exposes the fundamental logical flaw in the Bible of an all powerful and good god. So why does this superhuman prophet have to kill a few dozen ppl? If he's granted powers to be able to see while blind, have bullets miss him, why not just ignore the violence? This, I think, is the rub.   The bible stories are violent just like Book of Eli is violent.   People love violent stories.   It's not enough for an all powerful God to simply pick up a tribe and move them to another place so the Israelites can live there, he's got to get the Israelites to kill everybody.... It's as if the bible were written by Quentin Tarantino.