In the artical "Hollywood serches for God" Maggie Gallagher writes about how Hollywood has started this "pseudo-religious, Everybody-needs-a-little-jesus-in-their-life, we're all super Christians" fad relating it to pornography saying "Porn tantalizes and misdirects this impulse, diverts it from reality into a self-contained fantasy. Porn is not nearly as good as sexual love, but it is much cheaper and easier to get. Standard porn diverts the energy needed to create the real. In a similar way, religious porn movies like "Cloud Atlas" shamelessly tap into the deep human religious impulse and attempt to redirect it from truth to fantasy, in order to make money." I couldn't agree with her more. In my opionion I feel like Hollywood isn't searching for any type of God, because money is their God. They feed off of stereotypical American ways: we think everybody is supposed to be a Christian, that Christianity is the only correct religion, our biggest holiday (Christmas) is centered around a Christian belief and if one is to not believe in God they are automatically are assumed or be a devil worshipping freak. On a daily bases if I tell someone I'm atheist they automatically say "oh god then what do you believe in? What's gonna happen when you die? Does this mean you worship satan? You know you're going to hell right?" (Which of course is all ridiculous considering I don't believe in satan either.) I say all this to say, in America Christianity is the predominant religion and Hollywood is not searching for a god, they're feeding off of our emotion, we love things that have to do with religion because it's our security belt, it's something that we fall back on. Say someone's doing charity work and you ask them why they're doing it and a common response will be "it's all for Jesus" why is God your excuse to just be a good person? Without religion we wouldn't be a bad country, we'd be a country open to exploring more than what meets the eye, but because most of us grew up on Christian beliefs we use that as our safety net. Because we have this almost insecurity about not falling back on something that seems set in stone, that seems like it's right. It's like we have this insecurity about not "fitting in." How many people do you know go to church just because their friends are there? I know this because I used to be one of those people. Hollywood isn't searching for God, they know that people will go to see a movie just because it's god based for the sake of being able to say "just saw ____ loved it #godsnotdead," and if you were able to make billions of dollars just because you go with the natural flow of America wouldn't you go for it?
