God's Not Dead: A Light in Darkness

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Draco R Apr 24, 2019 That 11% is hilarious! This was a great movie and I absolutely loved it! Everyone should absolutely see it

Leia W Mar 2, 2019 If you haven't actually watched this movie, please don't make assumptions based on the previous two. They have gotten better each time. This one in particular blew even my very skeptical husband out of the water. It's complex, compassionate, funny, and I garunted not what you're expecting. See more

Abraham P Jan 15, 2019 I thought this was the best movie of the series and was the most fun to watch out of all of them.

Jan 4, 2019 Great movie. Surprises. Intelligent debate about faith and tragedy. Honest look at Christians, their battles, failures and beliefs. See more

Abraham S Dec 30, 2018 God's Not Dead with a Vengeance picks up right where God's Not Dead 2: God's Not Deader left off, and immediately drops that plot to take on college protesters. In the Marvel-esque end credits sequence of the previous film, mishap-prone Rev. Dave is arrested for refusing to turn over subpoenaed sermon transcripts. I imagine they had a treatment lined up about separating church and state, and the state limiting free speech rights at churches. (Separation of church and state doesn't apply when a teacher talks about Jesus is a public classroom, but does apply when a pastor should be allowed to speak with immunity about politics in church. The interpretation is always self-serving.) Unfortunately we never learned what the state was searching for in those transcripts, or what Rev. Dave had actually said in his sermons. One gets the feeling he was telling his congregation to get out and vote Republican. This story line is dropped in the first scene with a simple, "It wasn't constitutional." What follows is a fairly dry story about an imminent domain case involving a church on a liberal public university campus. We know they're liberal because they go to parties featuring music with a bass beat that is distinctly non-Newsboys and have interracial relationships. After an atheist student accidentally blows up the church, killing the superfluous Rev. Jude in a series of events straight out of Final Destination, Rev. Dave must stand up to a college administration set on tearing down the church for a new student union. This is actually a fairly sane movie compared to the others in the series. We learn Rev. Dave's social justice lawyer brother became an atheist after his family turned their backs on him when he was questioning his faith. The atheist student left his religion after his church's congregation nastily turned on his mother when she divorced an abusive husband. These are more realistic backstories than previously depicted, when atheists are depicted as bitter, resentful people who actually believe in God, but hate him. In another scene Rev. Dave's brother says, (I paraphrase) "Christians have spent centuries persecuting non-believers, but as soon as the tide turns a little bit, they cry victim." The movie acknowledges Christians' own shortcomings and hypocrisy. The ending results in Rev. Dave compromising with the college to move the church off campus and delivering a message calling for mutual understanding. The movie is still preaching to the choir, but is preaching a message they need to hear. As these movies get gradually better with each episode, I recommend they keep making them. By the time God's Not Dead 10 comes out, it will be win the Oscar for Best Picture. See more

Albus S Dec 14, 2018 This is becoming the Transformers of Christianity

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