Do Atheists enjoy Dogma?
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Both atheists and Christians who like banality would not be unsatisfied with this movie.
shareI'm agnostic and I love this movie
shareUnlike many monotheists, atheists don't tend to get all worked up over religion in entertainment...
As long as you're not trying to insist that religion is imposed on children in schools or coming up to us on the street preaching about embracing a dead carpenter, it's all good. We don't really care about it one way or another.
Agnostic here. I love this movie! I think it is hilariously funny.
shareAtheist here but still enjoyed the movie for the laughs. Its one thing to be an atheist and completely another thing to be close minded which I am not. While I hate serious religious movies but this movie was just hilarious all the way.
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I'd say Dogma actually helped me to become an atheist, and it's one of my favorite movies of all time.
I enjoy movies about Christianity the way I enjoy fantasy movies. Angels and demons are great for fantasy and supernatural media. Most of the stories in the bible are really fascinating. The Ten Commandments is another one of my favorite movies.
I don't have a religious bone in me, and I enjoy it very much. It's a fantasy movie, as far as I am concerned, and a rather clever/funny one at that. It really doesn't bother me (well, apart from when Affleck's character rambles on about God's endless patience with & forgiveness of men...) that it's related to a real-life mythos (and it never will unless it is preachy). Kind of makes it feel about 5% more believable.
Also, I love this movie's portrayal of God. She's adorable.
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Atheist here and I enjoyed the hell (or lack thereof) out of this film.
Recent Theatre Viewings:
The Descendants: 7/10
The Avengers: 6/10
TDKR: 5/10
Yes, I loved this movie. By far one of Smith's all time best.
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I would say that I'm an agnostic/atheist. If I say it like this: I am 100 % certain that all of the world's religions have it wrong, just because of the gigantic logical flaws in every last one of them. I mean, every big religion is written by a person or people 1000+ years ago and trying to explain the mysteries of the universe according to what they knew about the world at the time.
And it's so painfully obviously all horse fücking crap wrong. Just by what I personally know about biology, chemistry, physics, math, biochemistry, mechanics and the like I could poke a billion wholes in every last one of them. And I'm no genius. I don't even want to know how stupid they look to a genius.
So that's why I could consider myself an atheist.
But saying "I know that there is no god/higher force controlling everything" would be as arrogant as adhering to a religion and discarding every other explanation just out of pure self-righteousness (what you'd call a "religious nut").
So even if I by every other ones definition is an atheist, I am more comfortable calling myself an agnostic, cause let's face it, I don't know jack about why the universe is like it is.
And yes, I enjoyed dogma. Crap, in many of my absolute favourite movies there is a pretty strong stance that there is in fact a god. The Green Mile, The Passion of the Christ, Fanny and Alexander (heck, almost every Ingmar Bergman movie) takes that for granted. And I think they are f-ing brilliant. It takes jack and shït away from my viewing experience that the director has a different viewpoint than me.
One of my seriously top 10 movies follow navy enlists fighting for Nazi Germany in WWII as protagonists. That film is Das Boot (Director's Cut, the theatrical cut is all chopped up by some studio, but the director's cut, all I can say is watch it!).
And the director's viewpoint in that film is that most of the men fighting for Hitler's regime wasn't at all into this whole "master race" or "final solution" bullcrap. In that film the whole U-boat make fun of the one hitlerjugend indoctrinated nazi. One of the points that film makes is that most of the men fighting for Germany in WWII was not nazis, only patriots fighting for their country when called upon. While for a majority of the soldiers that's probably (actually pretty certainly) true, 1 nazi on a sub out of what, 60 people? That's borderline ridiculous.
Though I agree with the director that whenever WWII Germany (and their soldiers) are portrayed in non-German media it seems like the whole country was batshït crazy for killing jews and cleaning the world from any other race than nortern European (and I guess Americans since that's where most American derive their heritage). Let's face it, Hitler had only like 30 % backing so that always seems unfair to me.
In summary, I can thoroughly enjoy a film with a completely different view on things than my own. It takes nothing away from the viewing experience for me. I don't have the answer to every question on earth, I can enjoy insight from a different perspective.