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It is all we need and more, thanks!
Tisdale,
Wednesday, October 8, 2014
by Timothy W. Shire
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The American novelist Avery Corman published his first book "Oh God" in 1971 and screenwriter Larry Gelbert, the man who created the TV show M.A.S.H. produced the screenplay for the movie which was directed by comedy writer Carl Reiner and starred George Burns and John Denver in the only movie the folk singer ever made. Oh God was one of the hit movies of 1977. At the time the preachers and priests of the day pretty much condemned it for its light treatment and simple approach to what the "All Mighty" was about and I remember the shock and disdain that my own minister conveyed to me when I said that it was one of the most significant pieces of theology of our time.
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Of course, I was right about that. We live in an era and lifetime when the popes and holy rollers of this world claim ownership of the creator, they claim to know what "God" wants and are not hesitant at all about proclaiming what "God's will" is. However, Corman, Gelbert, Reiner and George Burns were able to sum up some pretty profound and important stuff.

"I gave you a world and everything in it." So Landers says "But we need help!" To which God replies, "That's why I gave you each other." (Daniel Sweet)
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At one point in the movie God points out: "You can love each other, cherish and nurture each other or you can kill each other. You're also turning the sky into mud. I look down, I can't believe the filth. Using the rivers for toilets, poisoning my fishes. You want a miracle? You make a fish from scratch. You can't! You think only God can make a tree? Try coming up with a mackerel. And when the last one's gone, that'll be that. Eighty-six on the fish, goodbye sky, so long world, over and out."

And, here's another gem: "Did Man fall from grace in the Garden of Eden?" I'll tell you something never came out. I made Adam 17. Eve was 15, 16 tops. I figured then 16, 17 was middle age, you know. Who knew people would live so long? Trees I figured had the best chance. Now I realize that they were kids, babies. Young people can't fall from my grace. They're my best things."

If you haven't seen this movie you can view it online. It would be a good way to mark Thanksgiving this year.

The main point in the movie is that: "You have what you need, and it will work."
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