Oh, God! Is No God

Oh, God! Is No God

by Israel

Seen today in 2019  the film Oh, God! seems pretty spiritual -- a seemingly wholesome Hollywood film talking about God rather than extraterrestrial demonic ninja feminists dressed in leather on a revenge mission against the patriarchy - the typical film in 2019. But for 1977, the film is in many respects anti-religious and anti-Christian. Today the very concept of the existence of God is novel to many people, especially the youth. 40 years ago, it was not. But a god that is not involved in everyday life, an aloof god, funny as he may be when played by old-time comedian George Burns, is a kind of non-god. And that’s what Mr. Burns tells us about himself, i.e. god, in the film, that he gave us everything we need and it’s up to us. He doesn’t get involved. When people pray, he can’t help but hear, but he doesn’t listen.

No divine providence and no prayer. Do we still insist on calling this a spiritual film in the religious genre? Or is it rather a film that dilutes religious sentiment and converts it into a disguised secular humanism. The main message of the film is that we must be good to each other. We hear that over and over. And God is not involved. Sounds Freemason, no?

And what about Christianity? The film tells us that Jesus was just a man. Now, it doesn’t come out and announce this Sarah Silverman style. It says rather, “Jesus was my son.  Buddha was my son. Muhammad, Moses, you, the man who said there was no room at the inn was my son.” In other words, he was a man.

The main Christian character was a very corrupt and hypocritical evangelist. Less prominent Christian characters were pompous academics. They were all phonies.

Now being Jewish myself, I’m not offended by the depiction of Jesus as being just a man, but I wonder why Christians are not. Is Hollywood duping them again? Are they being taken in by the wit of the secular Jewish screenwriter (Larry Gelbart), secular Jewish director (Carl Reiner), and secular Jewish lead actor George Burns? The producer is secular Jewish Jerry Weintraub.

I repeat the word secular because religious Jews do believe in divine providence in everyday affairs as well as prayer. God does listen to every word and responds via life. Portraying God as not being involved in your life is a sly way of freeing yourself from His authority. 

What else do we learn in the film? We learn that the George Burns god doesn’t belong to any church and that he regrets creating shame. In other words, do what you want as long as you don’t hurt anyone.

While religious Jews do not see deity in Jesus, we are supposed to keep our mouths shut about that unless asked. We are very grateful to live in a country that honors religious freedom and we have rules about interfering with the order of our host country. We much prefer Christianity to paganism, which is what we have today in large part due to Hollywood as well as the ACLU, the  Southern Poverty Law Center, and the ADL. For those who don’t know, those are all powerful and aggressive entities founded and dominated by secular Jews.

Secular Jews have no such rules about interference with the host country. Quite to the contrary, they provoke anyone and everyone, every chance they get. The Talmud warns about such people. It says if not for the Torah, no nation could withstand the Jews because they are so brazen. Jews need to channel their energies through Torah, through religious Judaism, or they become revolutionaries. And that’s a bad thing. The Russian Revolution was bad, the sexual revolution was bad. 

The hero of the film is Jerry Sanders, the character played by John Denver, the singer-songwriter turned actor. Denver, son of a military officer, grew up in New Mexico, Arizona, Alabama, and Texas, which in the 1940s and 1950s were vibrantly Christian. Denver once wrote a song about his uncle Matthew who after losing his farm “found the family bible, his faith as solid as a stone.” We don’t hear about the bible in this film.

Denver’s old-time American, conservative, Christian roots come through in his boywish, joyous, amiable personality and lend the film a credibility it doesn’t deserve. The gratuitous scenes of him with his shirt off and his wife’s derriere exposed are the director’s fault no doubt.

Incredibly, Denver’s character Jerry Sanders, comes across as more wholesome than Burn’s portrayal of God. Burns is a bit devilish. He is engaging, but he also seems to enjoy his power to play tricks on people and to tangle up their minds with his wit. And he is, let me say at the risk of being called a Jewish anti-Semite, pushy. It’s kind of funny, but it really isn’t funny. “Blessed is the one who does not walk in step with the wicked or stand in the way that sinners take or sit in the company of mockers,,” says the Psalmist.

When Jews first got to America, we played it safe. We wanted to survive and take it from there. A few Jews even wrote Christmas songs. But they were bland songs, devoid of religious sentiment, such as those written by secular Jewish Johnny Marks: "Rudolph, the Red-Nosed Reindeer," "Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree," and "A Holly Jolly Christmas.” The very bland “Winter Wonderland” actually had an Episcopalian lyricist Richard B. Smith (who died at age 34 of tuberculosis), but a Jewish composer Felix Bernard. 

“White Christmas” is of course the all-time biggest and blandest Christmas song. Singer Bing Crosby’s version sold 50 million copies, the all-time record for a single. Other singers sold another 50-million copies. The composer and lyricist was secular Jewish Irving Berlin.

I'm dreaming of a white christmas

Just like the ones i used to know

Where the treetops glisten

And children listen

To hear sleigh bells in the snow

I'm dreaming of a white christmas

With every christmas card i write

May your days be merry and bright

And may all your christmases be white

Like the Israeli national anthem, this all-time record-breaking Christmas song doesn’t mention God, any God. Listening to the song, you feel as though it is religious on some level, but it leaves you with sentiment towards falling snow and sleigh bells. It converts your religious instincts to a kind of materialism. The State of Israel is like that too. They keep telling you it’s the Jewish state, but all you hear about is its military, its listings on the NASDAQ, and its gay-pride parades.

There’s a pattern here. Some people claim it’s all intentional, a plot by the Rothschilds to corrupt the world and lead it to a new demonic world order. 

I don't laugh at that claim anymore. The change in society is so vast and happened so quickly and efficiently, that it seems sort of planned. Maybe it’s just the devil.

But I want the Christian world to know, it’s not the religious Jews doing this to you. We oppose secularism, we oppose paganism, we oppose Zionism, we oppose hedonism. We support the baby’s right to life and we support your right to practice your religion even in the courthouse, even in the public schools. We are guests in your country and we are grateful for your hospitality. Please keep all that in mind in the event that you figure out how films about extraterrestrial demonic ninja feminists dressed in leather have become the norm.