Agreed. The headline hooked me and the first sentence was profound ...but the second sentence discredits everything else about this article.

How about this: Headline: GOD'S HAND SEEN IN THE STARS
Opening paragraph: The further we are able to peer into the vast cosmos, the more we see that that we've only comprehended a tiny fraction of God's miraculous hand ...far beyond what the human mind can conceive. Those in the small-minded, cloistered Christian enclaves who limit God by saying the human race is a unique creation are limiting God. What makes us so proud that we think that in the infinite universe God did not create another race of people? Increasingly, we've found evidence of habitable planets and signs that in fact beings from other planets have visited us and guided our history. Blah, blah, blah.

--The headline and opening sentence are basic truths. After that, I discredit whatever follows because I've proven that I'm loony.

I almost forgot this one. Absolutely one of the best!

BEYOND THE GATES OF SPLENDOR (documentary about 5 missionaries killed in Equador)
THE BOOK OF ELI
THE PASSION OF THE CHRIST
CHARIOTS OF FIRE
LUTHER
KINGDOM OF HEAVEN (great portrayal of the Crusades)
MONTY PYTHON AND THE HOLY GRAIL (kidding)
SIGNS (Mel Gibson's faith is tested to the max ...won't give away the ending in case there's anybody who hasn't seen this)
THE MISSION (Robert De Niro gives a great performance as the sinner trying to atone for his sins)
GOD AND GENERALS (what a dichotomy to hear the slave and the master pray to the same God for completely different outcomes of the Civil War)
O BROTHER, WHERE ART THOU (fantastic movie ...religious themes throughout ...baptism, salvation ...even though it's all tongue in cheek)
RUDY (Son, in 35 years of religious study, I have only come up with two hard incontrovertible facts: there is a God, and I'm not Him.)
AMADEUS (Salieri's continual struggle to understand why God would waste genius on an insolent immature young man like Mozart, while Salieri devoted his life to God but only received mediocre talent)

Perhaps "A Few Good Men"? Excellent cast, riveting dialog, gripping story line . . .a movie I've watched several times.

But . . .Jack Nicholson's character . . .and by extension all of the military who put their lives on the line for our freedom and safety . . .is evil. Tom Cruise's character, who is a slacker and wants to make the military a bunch of politically correct wimps, is the hero.

Or, "Billy Jack." Establishment/law enforcement = evil. Drugged-up hippie types who mooch off the working people = all that is good in this world.

Very interesting take on this movie . . .an angle I hadn't thought of before this. I just know it scared me to death when I first saw it in the theater.

My 2 scariest movies haven't made John's list yet . . .hope they do!