Our sins will come back to haunt us...

Rating: 10/10 (30 June 2000)

I could not help but watch this movie and relate it to our current situation today. This is the story about a father, not just a nation. This is the story about a family, not just a country. Whatever it takes to protect Liberty and Freedom is singularized in the life of Benjamin Martin, the patriot. In the movie we see a man who fights for his family and country against the evil British empire. In today's world life is held in little esteem and the God that our nation was founded upon has been thrown out of our schools, our courts, our homes and even our churches. Men were willing to fight for family and freedom because of their belief in something more important than themselves. We have forgotten that. This movie gives me hope that we can remember that again, that there is a cause bigger than the individual, that there is something more important than ourselves. God, family and country...in that order. Mel Gibson also seems to have that sense of priority, and I saw his sense of family and loyalty to God shining through on the screen. He may be a good actor, but that is not something you can fake. I pray that every man, and woman, would come away from this movie realizing that same sense of priority and that we would prepare ourselves for the fight that is going on in our backyards right now. The sins of our past will soon come to visit us, will they be more than we can bear?