Bruce Almighty

Bruce Almighty is a fiction story about a man who, after enduring a bad day, blasphemes God. He blames him for all the wrong doing in his life, and orders God to answer him. God does answer Bruce, appearing to Bruce as a janitor. After convincing Bruce he is God, he then bestows all of his Godly powers upon Bruce and tells him, “If you can do it better, than be my guest.”

Bruce has a lot of fun with his new divine powers at first, but once his world starts to suffer from his selfish use of these powers havoc breaks out. After his girlfriend Grace leaves him, Bruce starts to see the pain he has done. He then prays to God, asking him to take his powers back and fix everything.

The type of religion this movie is conveying and the audience it relates to the most is a Christian one. Christianity believes in one God, as he is presented in the Bible. Christianity is a monotheistic religion, as defined in the text monotheism (Cultural Anthropology, page 295, paragraph 2) is the belief in a single God. Though this can be confusing, according to Every Student (http://www.everystudent.com/forum/hspirit.html, paragraph 6), Christians believe in the father, the son, and the Holy Ghost. These refer to God himself, Jesus (God’s son or mortal body), and the Holy Spirit which is, in simplest terms, faith. These may seem like three separate entities but Christians believe they are all embodied in the same celestial being, so one God.

Christianity was first brought about by Jesus, who preached he was the son of God. After Jesus was hung on the cross and then resurrected one of his apostles, Paul, started the church. It first became popular in Jerusalem, and then continued to spread throughout the rest of the Middle-East, eventually reaching ...

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...mor is the tool used to recognize the ridiculousness of racial issues, though different from this film, Bruce Almighty uses humor to recognize the ridiculous issues in Christianity.

Works Cited:

text: (monotheism - Cultural Anthropology, page 295, paragraph 2)

text: (prayer - Cultural Anthropology, page 298, paragraph 3)

text: (sacrifice - Cultural Anthropology, page 299, paragraph 1)

(http://www.everystudent.com/forum/hspirit.html, paragraph 6)

(http://www.gotquestions.org/born-again.html, paragraph 2).

(http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=baptism, definition)

(http://www.catalogs.com/info/spirituality/symbols-of-christianity.html, paragraph 7)

(http://www.bibleufo.com/anomlostbooks.htm, paragraph 2)

(http://www.hope-of-israel.org/cmas1.htm, paragraph 85 )

(http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=8860670051621711477#)