I Heart Huckabees

I finally saw it on the weekend. Good film. I liked the juxtaposition of the dinner at the African bellhop's house. Mark Wahlberg's firefighter character debating the whole family was interesting. The idea that the daughter puts forward that God doesn't care what we do so long as we have "Jesus in our heart" seems to be at the root of so much that ails Christianity. St. Augustine suggested that one could love God and then do what one wanted. The idea behind this being that, if one first loved God, their actions would be pleasing, whatever they were. The tendency though is to invert that logic. People do what they want and then try to work out after the fact how that is loving God. In doing so, people seem to be able to justify anything that they enjoy. By this method, you can be as greedy and selfish as you choose. Anyway, that was just a moment that I pulled out of that film, there is lots more too...