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One thing this movie got right.

posted 14 years ago by cell99
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Denver: Why pick me? Im not even religious.
God: Neither am I.

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[–] Enrique-8 14 years ago

Yep...volumes have been spoken to explain that religion is just about a building you go to. God dwells everywhere.

Enrique Sanchez

[–] lroy77 14 years ago

Wrong. Religion is about FAITH.

[–] bobr549 13 years ago

Sorry but you are mistaken. Religion is like magic not faith. Faith has nothing to do with rituals. Faith relives on belief and religion does on ritual.

[–] slender4 13 years ago

The Almighty, through the personage of the beloved George Burns, tells John Denver's Jerry; 'you have the aura of goodness about you'. (or words to that effect)

Seeing this film now 34 years after it was released gives me greater pause for thought. I saw "Oh, God!" in a theater in the Fall of '77 when I was 21. Now, as a presumably mature adult, the message of the film resonates more deeply for me.

[–] digitalboy72 9 years ago

My fiance and I attend Lakewood church and we're taught to shun religion as a man made construct, the result of man's folly that was not intended by God. Instead we're taught relationship, relationship with the one and only God.

[–] sjlatorre-1 9 years ago

It's actually:

Jerry: I'm not religious.
God: So?

Then later:

Jerry: I don't belong to a church.
God: Neither do I.