Hawaii (1966) - wow! it is such a joy to watch a movie concentrated on story, characters, and acting. Surprisingly for the time, the movie is about the clash of religions and even gods.
Max von Sydow plays an idealistic 19th-century preacher who is going to Hawaii to spread Christianity. Being there, he has inner conflicts as he faces bigotry and racism Christianity installs in preachers towards people of other religions, only to eventually become open to their beliefs. But then, in the end, he discovers that he was used, that he was nothing but a pawn as Christianity is just there to exploit those people and their lands, and even enslave them.
Max von Sydow plays an idealistic 19th-century preacher who is going to Hawaii to spread Christianity. Being there, he has inner conflicts as he faces bigotry and racism Christianity installs in preachers towards people of other religions, only to eventually become open to their beliefs. But then, in the end, he discovers that he was used, that he was nothing but a pawn as Christianity is just there to exploit those people and their lands, and even enslave them.
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"