After watching God’s Not Dead: We the People, I thought that the reviewer who described a kids’ program as “well intentioned” at best was being generous. The film try herds in trying to push the franchise’s legacy through different sequels but post its first installment, the series sculptures anti education narratives and Jesus boomers’ expectations to further content at this point. The sequel turns out to be Joseph Stalin with a cross trying to bring evangelicals to the forefront. If with the previous films, such as Eternals or Thor: Love and Thunder, there was at least something to scratch, then in God’s Not Dead: In God We Trust you don’t even need a temple to suffocate yourself.
And let me be clear: expecting God’s Not Dead now what’s that put revisionism as anything other than a continuation of the fundamentalism narrative with the “politically correct” lingo wrapped around it is cheating yourself. These types of films recycle paranoia and preach about the mythical disappearance of Christianity from these United States or the chosen land Pennsylvania. Now, the most mismatched film in the series We the People introduced and traded in theories of a catastrophe that never took place as a war on homeschooling.
It is something Democrats may appreciate to have someone like Peter Kane, Ray Wise reprising the role from God’s Not Dead 2, as a down to earth lawmaker fully convinced that the church must be left out of state affairs. Even where it is a place of worship, it should be taxed. Health care should be a basic right to every human being. The government has no business playing the role of God in the affairs of human beings but rather serve those people. Already he is more appealing to me than most politicians do.
On the other hand, Republicans deserve a gentleman like Reverend David Hill, performed in the series by David A. R. White, a man of strong beliefs who wanted to keep his way out of politics until someone, who was running against Kane, dies about halfway through Arkansas Assembly elections. Scarcely six weeks before the election, Lottie Day, a campaign manager catches the next flight to David who has never intended to run for anything, but has become internet famous for some courtroom speeches he has done in the past. The speech made him eligible to do it along with all the reasons he wasn’t intending to run. It seemed an incredulous idea so David laughs at first, but subsequently prays about it and consents.
Involving the campaign trail, he decides to place the same moral values of Christian ethics and the self-serving interests that have worked for him so well within the four walls of his church. According to Lottie, who is let’s say more into the rubbish throwing business than actually beating her opponent Kane’s campaign manager Scott Biao, that will not be accepted by voters. Kane sets up a number of fake chances for David to try and elaborate on his principles. For instance, Kane extends an invitation to his podcast where he focuses on how he wants to speak and at least tries to emphasize on it just as he is getting into the flow. As stated in the film, David is one of many surreal claims that will undoubtedly rile up its loyal audience in theaters this week, claiming that the mortal body and everlasting soul do not recognize the boundaries of the church and state.
It was almost as if the race for the Arkansas Senate seat was so hot and competitive we saw multiple nationally televised debates on Huckabee’s show. In God We Trust, however, was built on the foundation of strawmen arguments which are pretty weak and flimsy. Some of his images include what ought to be some of the scariest elements of the film: the lockdowns and the vaccine madness as well as the rioting. Because Kane, an amoral and evil character, ‘dares’ to believe that, in a multifaith nation, one religion does not need to be made dominant. David is someone who is candid and just since he believes in Christ’s teachings and speaks against socialism.
When the otherwise dull and anticlimactic last debate starts, however, screenplay writer Tommy Blaze appears to have run out of steam to respond to the political insults of Khan. Quite to the contrary, it would require David to move the faith towards great practice, arguing constituents to come forward to register under the banner that sixty million Christians do not poll and fifteen million do not even go so far as to register.
Yet another positive for In God We Trust: the film concludes with a QR code which allows one to register to vote and watch more scenes from the movie. I would much prefer that to the Angel Studio’s ‘Pay it Forward’ scheme. Still, in both cases, I would mute even the obligatory call to action if only the film was better.
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