Old Film Made Me Realize Just How Much Religion Sucks

Sup Bros

To open this, I wanna say, I’ve got nothing against you faithful Bros. I respect your right to believe in something, I respect you and your opinions. So, since I expect the same from all Bros, if you see anything that offends you in this post, I’m not sorry Bro.

For almost my whole life, I’ve held strongly to basic atheist ideals, but recently a film has shown a deeper truth into just how much organized religion blows. Devoid of all it’s corruption, violence, and blatant mind control-esque tendencies, religion is also a safe haven for libido weakening men. Which come to realize it, may be the result of all these recent sex scandals involving little boys that have catapulted the catholic church into conflict with the law. Either way, sticking to my topic I want to talk about a movie called The Night Of The Hunter and how it further opened my eyes to it.

This movie, when it first released, was a tragic failure, however now it is looked at as a masterpiece. In fact, some film databases place it in their top 5 movies of all time (Cahiers du cinéma has it at #2). If we watch the movie, we see exactly why. It has an interesting plot involving the quest of a corrupt preacher for some $10,000, some interesting characters – both child and adult – who go through complex growth, and displays of gorgeous set design. It also has a great morale to it, which includes the concept of hunter and pray amongst us everyday Bros and the two sides of the faithful Bros: corrupt and morally righteous. It’s highly recommended to all classic loving Bros out there, but be warned, this one is ancient.

Moving on to my realization, the film also showcases some rather cringe-worthy aspects of religion. To tell it quickly, the preacher is on the hunt for money that was stolen by a man he met in prison who is to be hung. This man sleep talks all the details of where he’s from and the preacher tracks down the family, wives the widow, and interrogates the children about said money. There’s a scene in the movie in which the preacher shockingly declines a sexual offer from an obviously horny, sexy woman, giving all us provocative Bros massive blue balls. At any rate, the preacher explains that her body, no matter how tempting, is to be used for mother-bearing purposes and none other. Instead of DM’ing her side, or going bisexual, she decides to do the only logical thing: pray.

“[praying] Help me to be clean, so I can be what Harry wants me to be.”

Need I say more bros. If you watch the movie, even as devote Catholic, Christian, Scientologist, whatever; it’d be hard not to notice the downright preposterous ideals that religion allows and preaches for. I would go on to list these instances in the film, but given that it is Bro-proved, I urge you to see for yourself.

I’ll end with this with a fact.

Up until they realized it could be used for bettering their religious propaganda. The catholic church actually banned all form of play writing and performing. Just imagine, what would’ve happened if some seriously sadistic faithful Bros got their hands on Shakespeare.