God Friended Me
Last week I watched 60 Minutes CBS and didn’t turn the TV off after the show. I was
surprised and immediately intrigued by a new 1-hour long show, God Friended Me. I don’t usually watch
much TV and my blog posts are usually about romance. But hold on, there’s
romantic elements here, plus much food for thought. I can’t say how long I’ll
continue to watch since my time is given to other pursuits and usually don’t
like shows if they become too predictable. We’ll see…
The show’s star, and this is somewhat an ensemble, is
a young, black man, atheist, who is really at odds with his minister father. He
receives friend requests from God and consults his hacker friend. Then he gets
requests, again from God, to friend one person after another. He resists and
the hunt for the “fake” God is on. Meanwhile he saves the life of a potential
suicide, a doctor who was just jilted by his girlfriend and had other problems…
And was God’s friend recommendation.
Another God recommendation brings him to the white heroine,
etc. They team up after a cute meet followed by an accident to her in which she
is then treated by the doctor the hero saved.
The core of the story is the struggle between belief
and unbelief, doing good and believing there is no good, love versus hate,
family and its value and of course, faith.
A month ago I wrote about the difficulties of marriage due to misconceptions by younger newly marrieds. Below we have an article by Cathy Hutchinson that expands on the topic.
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