Without God, faith will last forever

Anabel 2021-10-20 17:29:24

In fact, it doesn't matter whether eli is carrying the Bible, the Koran or the Buddhist scriptures or even the four books and five sutras. What the film wants to say is not simply God or a certain religious school, otherwise he should indicate whether it is Protestant, God or Eastern Orthodoxy, Lutheran, Guizheng, or Anglican. We must know that the various schools and denominations of Christianity are also fighting fiercely.
What the movie really wants to say is about faith, even if it is faith in Marx, it is also faith. Look at the older generation of revolutionaries, true Marxists, they are enough to win the respect of everyone.
Only if you have faith can you really live, get rid of animal instincts, and live like a human being.
In that environment, the collective faith can save the world, regardless of whether the faith is Christ, Confucius or Marx.
Some people laughed at this movie as a movie promoting Christianity. This is nonsense. The Chinese (referring to the majority of ordinary people) make movies to promote Buddhism or Taoism, and everyone can watch it with gusto. If it is to promote Christianity or Islam, how many people will watch it. You know, the director was originally filming for the American and Europeans. If you don't film Christianity, can it be a really non-mainstream Diamond Sutra?

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  • Eli: They say the war tore a hole in the sky, you've probably heard the stories.

    Solara: Yeah.

    Eli: The war tore a hole in the sky, the sun came down, burnt everything, everyone, I wandered, I didn't really know what I should do or where I was going. I was just moving from place to place, trying to stay alive. And then one day I heard this voice. I don't know how to explain it, it's like it was coming from inside me. But I could hear it clear as day. Clear as I can hear you talking to me now. It told me to carry the book west, it told me that a path would be laid out before me, that I'd be led to a place where the book would be safe. It told me I'd be protected, against anyone or anything that tried to stand in my way. If only I would have faith. That was thirty years ago and I've been walking ever since.

    Solara: And you did all this because a voice told you to?

    Eli: I know what I hear, I know what I heard, I know I'm not crazy, I didn't imagine it

  • Hoyt: [seeing two dead hijackers] It's like he's protected somehow. Like there's nothing that can touch him

    Carnegie: Oh, he's just a fucking man. You put a bullet in him, he'll go down like any other.