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I propose that, consistent with the article Cultural depictions of Jesus, this article be moved to Cultural depictions of God, and restructured. The following sections seem a reasonable approach:
This should give us a better balanced and more informative article than we have at present. Any views?-- Michig ( talk) 14:08, 13 April 2009 (UTC)
Even with the topic limitation set out above, there's an awful lot that isn't here yet, from the Islamic view of portraying God in film and television, to portrayals in non-U.S. cinema (such as the portrayals of Hindu god(s) in Bollywood films). Be bold! Uncle G ( talk) 17:27, 13 April 2009 (UTC)
The article seems to assume that God is the deity of the Jewish/Christian/Moslem religions and their offshoots. This perhaps needs to be explictly stated if we don't want the article to also include The Mighty Thor, Buddha, Apollo, etc. Colonel Warden ( talk) 13:07, 14 April 2009 (UTC)
The article seems to deal only with 20th century movies and television, excluding even modern written works, let alone older written works like Milton's Paradise Lost where God is featured as a character. It's not clear what the criteria are for something to be "popular media". What about expanding the article to the more general topic "Portrayals of God in fiction" or something along those lines? Hypnosifl ( talk) 22:43, 20 November 2010 (UTC)
This article links to Depictions of Jesus yet that article makes virtually no reference to film and TV depictions. Surely there should be a Portrayals of Jesus in popular media counterpart to this since (due likely to the issues discussed in this article) film and TV depictions of Jesus outnumber that of God. (Notwithstanding the view of some that they are one and the same, of course, though if that view is followed then this article need expansion). 68.146.52.234 ( talk) 04:23, 9 September 2015 (UTC)
This bit has been added to the article:
God as a character is often mentioned or intervenes in the plot of the CW show Supernatural. He seems as a loving, smart, serious, strategic, all-seeing, father, that observes events play out, but ignores them unless he absolutely needs to fix something
I have a few problems with this. In terms of Wikipedia content, I think it would be much better to classify occurrences and give brief examples, rather than dwell on the specifics of any show. It's also not punctuated.
It's also incorrect in two ways:
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I propose that, consistent with the article Cultural depictions of Jesus, this article be moved to Cultural depictions of God, and restructured. The following sections seem a reasonable approach:
This should give us a better balanced and more informative article than we have at present. Any views?-- Michig ( talk) 14:08, 13 April 2009 (UTC)
Even with the topic limitation set out above, there's an awful lot that isn't here yet, from the Islamic view of portraying God in film and television, to portrayals in non-U.S. cinema (such as the portrayals of Hindu god(s) in Bollywood films). Be bold! Uncle G ( talk) 17:27, 13 April 2009 (UTC)
The article seems to assume that God is the deity of the Jewish/Christian/Moslem religions and their offshoots. This perhaps needs to be explictly stated if we don't want the article to also include The Mighty Thor, Buddha, Apollo, etc. Colonel Warden ( talk) 13:07, 14 April 2009 (UTC)
The article seems to deal only with 20th century movies and television, excluding even modern written works, let alone older written works like Milton's Paradise Lost where God is featured as a character. It's not clear what the criteria are for something to be "popular media". What about expanding the article to the more general topic "Portrayals of God in fiction" or something along those lines? Hypnosifl ( talk) 22:43, 20 November 2010 (UTC)
This article links to Depictions of Jesus yet that article makes virtually no reference to film and TV depictions. Surely there should be a Portrayals of Jesus in popular media counterpart to this since (due likely to the issues discussed in this article) film and TV depictions of Jesus outnumber that of God. (Notwithstanding the view of some that they are one and the same, of course, though if that view is followed then this article need expansion). 68.146.52.234 ( talk) 04:23, 9 September 2015 (UTC)
This bit has been added to the article:
God as a character is often mentioned or intervenes in the plot of the CW show Supernatural. He seems as a loving, smart, serious, strategic, all-seeing, father, that observes events play out, but ignores them unless he absolutely needs to fix something
I have a few problems with this. In terms of Wikipedia content, I think it would be much better to classify occurrences and give brief examples, rather than dwell on the specifics of any show. It's also not punctuated.
It's also incorrect in two ways: