I don't think we are bickering and I don't want to argue. I don't even see why people keep coming to conclusions I clearly did not type or intend. I just find it interesting that people, even atheists, find value in a movie that promotes faith, in spite of the fact that they themselves do not have such faith, at least in a religious sense. It to me shows that people want to believe in something greater, even if it's not God. Or in other words...

Ryan McAvoy said:

Faith is a strong theme....Religion doesn't have a monopoly on that, or love, or imagination.

The only point where I see a departure in Ryan's and my points of view is that I think a belief in God is no big leap when most atheists already want to believe in something greater, whether they've acknowledged such or not. But I'm not compelling anyone to believe such, nor am I saying that a belief system should be built around a movie.

SPOILERS:

I've been wanting to discuss this, and since the line that "humanity saved itself" was already brought up, I want to point out the inherent paradox. How did humanity save itself? By already having been saved, they are able to evolve and come back and save humanity. But how could they have been saved and thus come back, unless someone saved them. Oh, but someone did: humans who had already been saved and then evolved, thus saving those humans and allowing them to evolve. It's a paradox! Oh no! It's like the watch in Somewhere in Time. Where did it first come from??? Just thought I'd point that out.