Saint Maud (2020)
This. This is the interpretation of God I like to see now that I'm atheist. Sinister, malevolent, controlling humans like puppets. It looks almost completely indistinguishable from the adversary in their myths. And the human devotion to it looks like a sickness, depraved, full of glorified suffering.
Movies like this make me entertain a brief fantasy where god IS real but it's a monster, hungry and manipulative. And as I watch Maud be steered around by this thing, I feel a sense of relief, like I dodged a bullet by retracting my worship of this thing that only had designs to consume me until there was nothing left.
This. This is the interpretation of God I like to see now that I'm atheist. Sinister, malevolent, controlling humans like puppets. It looks almost completely indistinguishable from the adversary in their myths. And the human devotion to it looks like a sickness, depraved, full of glorified suffering.
Movies like this make me entertain a brief fantasy where god IS real but it's a monster, hungry and manipulative. And as I watch Maud be steered around by this thing, I feel a sense of relief, like I dodged a bullet by retracting my worship of this thing that only had designs to consume me until there was nothing left.
