"I love at the end when the priest says he has his "faith". It was pretty conclusively proven to you that the whole bible thing was true. What is left to faith?"
Faith that God loves us despite all evidence to the contrary? Or maybe in such a way too incomprehensible ("mysterious") for us to understand (since we don't see the big picture and perhaps are NOT the center of the creation and thus God has bigger fishes to fry unseen to us), thus making such love in practice well, meaningless? Job can attest to that.
"the word faith when their belief is unknown or irrational."
Only Muslims and Protestants. The Catholics have always had a very well defined concept of faith predicated on past proof. As in for example: you trust your parents because you KNOW they mean well, hence you don't ask them to prove themselves again and again.
Following the Testaments narrative (assuming they were true), before Jesus started making divinity claims and whatnot, he proved himself first by performing miracles again and again so as to earn the faith that his latter comments and statements would require.
Even then after resurrecting he did not reprimand/lecture the disciple who stated that unless he actually put his fingers and hands in Jesus' open wounds, he would not believe. In fact Jesus indulged him, and only sang the praises for those who believed without seeing.
So if the J man himself won't smoke a doubter and in fact will grant his request, what does that say about people who, without being divine, demand blind faith (as if they were infallible)?
"To the point that it sounded deep, but was really just weird thinking and poor reasoning. "
But yes, the concept of faith here in the movie is absurd, in fact I always fats forward that moment, it simply ruins everything.
But again: any and all demons are simply doing God's will, so the ultimate cause of evil in this world is, God.
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