My wife and I rented Garden State last weekend. The main message seems to be "to experience life, you have to experience pain." The plot is basically a man finds out that his mother died. He is under heavy medication as prescribed by his father, who is a psychiatrist. He decides to go off the drugs and start experiencing life again. We both enjoyed the movie. People tend to treat Christianity the same way. They think God will protect them and keep them from experiencing the pain, even though every letter in the New Testament talks about how to face suffering in a Christ like manner and not how to avoid it. Garden State is not by any means a Christian movie, but GS's stoic world-view should be something Christians use to re-evaluate their own view of scripture. The "success" gospel of the TV evangelist should be viewed with suspicion.
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