3/10
It just don't happen that way
3 April 2018
Warning: Spoilers
David A.R. White who is probably the premier actor in Christian films takes center stage in the third God's Not Dead film. In the previous two he was in support. As Reverend David Hill his church is located on the grounds of the university campus and also houses the campus ministry.

I'm not sure I could find enough space to tell all that was wrong with this one. In my city a landmark building like that, no way would it be torn down not with the active preservationists that are here. Even after it being firebombed because some don't like the message it was giving out it would have been repaired and preserved, eminent domain or no eminent domain.

Firebombed it is by a disgruntled youth played by Mike C. Manning and the fire and explosion cost the life of visiting pastor from Africa, Benjamin Onyango. The battle lines are set between White and University President Ted McGinley and the campus divides.

The confrontation also brings about a reconciliation of sorts between White and older brother John Corbett. He's one of those secular humanist lawyers, but when you need one good to have one in the family.

Shane Harper returns from the first God's Not Dead film. He's changed careers and now is a youth pastor working with White. Harper describes himself as a liberal type himself, he does Habitat For Humanity type work, he says he battles for civil rights. I wonder if that includes LGBTQ rights. No gays or campus gay organization in sight on this large university.

This one surely has a fairy tale ending though which you have to see to believe. I wish it were all that simple. And as for young Manning I will say that the killing was not his intent. If you watch enough Law And Order you've heard the phrase 'intent follows the bullet'. What happens to Manning is just plain off the wall. If this were New York County ain't no way Jack McCoy would have countenanced it in a New York minute.

Things just don't work out in the real world compared to what we see in God's Not Dead: A Light In The Darkness.
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