As an atheist, I'll add my two proverbial cents: 1) Last time I checked, Christians vastly outnumbered nonbelievers. 2) I'm very much an anti-theist, but since I view movies (especially fantasy horror movies) as fiction, it doesn't particularly bother me if they have a Christian theme or are inspired by Christian mythology. In fact, I quite enjoy religious mythologies of many different kinds, as long as they are taken as such, rather than as accurate depictions of reality. I do find it slightly off putting when movies get preachy or, more importantly, if they misrepresent the position of people like myself, but generally speaking I'll accept that in the universe in which the movie takes place, the believers happen to be right and the supernatural exists - just like I will accept the existence of other supernatural entities (e.g.: vampires, ghosts, witches, superheroes) when I watch or read other works of fiction.
And to add an extra cent: browse through some of the other horror B movies on IMDB, and you'll soon discover that a 4.x seems to be kind of the default for this genre.
I'm about halfway through this movie, and so far it's OK. Nothing really special, a bit cliche, but not a terrible movie (but then, I did sit through Troll 2).
Edit: So, after having finished it, there were two remarks that kind of rubbed me the wrong way near the end. The first was the statement that non-belief is somehow "selfish", the other one that belief in God is a choice. I don't see how either of those things hold even in the context of the movie. Other than that, I'll stick with my original verdict.
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