Noah

So, I haven't seen Noah, but I found this piece in the LA Times a bit much based on what I know of the film.  The tenor of the times article is summed up in this quote:

The same people who gripe that Hollywood never makes any faith-based movies are complaining because Hollywood has gone and made a religious movie, albeit one that might not be as literal-minded as they'd like.

Those wacky God types, there's just no pleasing them.  But from what I know Noah is not a "faith based" movie nor is it a religious movie.  Noah depicts God has bitter and vindictive inspiring Noah his prophet to murder his grandchildren lest they survive the flood the ostensible purpose of which is to destroy all of humanity without allowing any humans left to multiply and  replenish the earth.  This of course is totally nonsensical.  Why preserve Noah and his family if the intent was to leave the earth completely barren of human life?

But I quibble.  God and his followers are without love or compassion.  Belief in God results in massive destruction and what appears to be insanity.  It's hard to imagine how Noah could be considered to be a faith based movie when it's central message preaches that faith in God leads to destruction and madness. 

Presumably the presence of a loving God faith in whom leads one to all that is good in the world is the literal mindedness the Times believes is missing from this film.  The Times also notes that religious whiners are complaining just because the story was not interpreted in the way in which those believers have been taught.  Again the interpretation the Times refers to as having been taught to believers is one in which God is good rather than an evil all powerful tyrant as Noah's writers and directors interpretation would have it.

Imagine the temerity of the religious to expect a depiction of sacred text to be an affirmation of the principles espoused in the text rather than a two hour long argument that if you believe that stuff you're crazy.   The backlash against protests about Noah as exemplified in the LA Times demonstrates once again that a certain segment of society, prominently including many responsible for our "entertainment," is bent on undermining faith and religion in our society.