My favorite religious movie hands down is Groundhog Day, the 1993 Bill Murray comedy where an arrogant TV anchor is forced to relive the same day thousands of times until he fixes his attitude and learns to care about his neighbors. He can't move on with his life until he graduates from his purgatory in Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania. It's a brilliant allegory for our spiritual journey as individuals and, apparently, as a nation.
The political parallels are obvious as the nation braces for a rerun of 2020's bitter election pitting the most narcissistic and cruel person I've seen in public life against a man whose main attribute is he's not the other guy. "President Joe Biden is 'old' and 'confused,' and former President Donald Trump is 'corrupt' and 'dishonest,'" according to most respondents in a recent major poll.
