Would it Really Matter?

Would it Really Matter?

         

I enjoy watching movies.  Sometimes it’s a lot of fun to watch an older movie and see the changes in technology.  Tonight we watched Independence Day from 1996.  The computer graphics in that movie are incredible when you consider the computer to have at the time was a Commodore 64 or something like that.  I probably have more power in my little convertible then they had in the computers that made those special effects.  Just in case anybody is confused, Shirley is not a convertible, I don’t think they make a Mitsubishi Gallant in a convertible.  No, nowadays we have to specify what type of convertible we are talking about.  My convertible is a laptop/tablet convertible that I had purchased to take notes on in class, and Shirley is out car.

That isn’t what has me so amazed though, not in this movie.  This is the season of faith, so faith and believing has been heavily on my mind lately.  Toward the end of the movie, when they are looking for pilots, anybody who has ever flown a plane, the drunken crop duster of course volunteers.  At this point in the movie, the non-existent area 51 is the location, there’s proof that aliens not only exist but have been here before.  Russell Kay, the drunken crop duster that never fully recovered from his ordeal when kidnapped by aliens is still looked at with suspicion when he mentions his desire for payback.  Here there is indisputable proof that aliens exist, yet people still doubt.  The whole movie is about saving the human race and the earth from these creatures, yet people still don’t believe.

According to this movie, we are supposed to have doubts about what we have seen proven to be true.  It makes absolutely no sense to me for people to see and experience aliens attacking their planet, working at a top secret facility devoted to researching these same aliens without the rest of the world knowing about it, and then not believe that there is another part of the conspiracy that they are not privy to.

As much as the media rules our lives and conceptions, it is no wonder people see miracles every day and still do not believe in God.  Even in the make believe world of movies we are expected to doubt what we see, to think in plains and avoid thinking creatively.   Having faith requires us to believe in the unseen.  It’s funny how we are expected to have faith in oxygen because someone has claimed to have seen these little tiny particles using some kind of a fancy lens that makes everything appear much larger than it really is even though we ourselves may not have seen it or even know anyone personally who has seen it. 

So, what my question really is today is this.  Would it really matter if God came down from heaven and produced a bunch of miracles for everyone to see?  If movie characters can see the entire planet being destroyed by aliens from a facility that isn’t supposed to exists and not believe that aliens are capable of abductions, what would happen in the real World?  In the words of Barbara Ann, I’m just sayin…