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The Movie Rapture

setpiece · film: Rapture (1991) · retold in 3 talks

A woman kills her daughter to be raptured, but when the apocalypse comes, she refuses to say 'I love Jesus' because God did horrible things to her. She chooses eternal damnation with her family over serving God.

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As told 3

“god did so many horrible things to me, i cannot say that sincerely. i don't want to serve god in any way, not even rhetorically.”
“I am not ready to declare my love for God who acted with such cruelty towards my family for no reason at all.”
“Sharon says 'no I will not do it.' Sharon says 'I cannot say I love God who was so cruel towards me... I will not do it.'”

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A woman kills her daughter to be raptured, but when the apocalypse comes, she refuses to say 'I love Jesus' because God did horrible things to her. She chooses eternal damnation with her family over serving God., illustrating Christian atheism,true atheism
Mimi Rogers plays Sharon, an LA woman whose religious fanaticism ends with her shooting her daughter to reach heaven; the rapture actually happens but she refuses, in the film's purgatory, to declare love for a cruel God, even knowing she will stay there forever., illustrating authentic ethical act,the monstrosity of God,atheism through Christianity
In Michael Tolkin’s film, Sharon is raptured to Purgatory; her 'ethical act' is refusing to say 'I love Jesus' to an evil God, choosing eternal suffering over lying., illustrating God is unconscious