God Told Me To story
An alien entity posing as God tells random New Yorkers to start shooting people.
14 total · 6 major · 7 minor
| Theme | Level | Motivation |
|---|---|---|
| alien impregnation of human females | major | Peter uncovered that he was the product of a virgin birth and that the father was some sort of mysterious entity of light. |
| extraterrestrial being | major | A mysterious alien entity worked to convince New Yorkers that it was God. |
| human-alien hybrid | major | Peter discovered that he was the offspring of a human mother and a mysterious entity of light of alien origin. |
| mass murder | major | Peter investigated a number of mass murders, including a man who shot people on the street from the safety of a water tower, a man who stabbed as many people as he could in a grocery store, and a man who launched an attack on people watching the Satin Patrick's Day parade. |
| the god is an alien | major | A mysterious alien entity worked to convince New Yorkers that it was God. |
| virgin birth | major | Peter discovered that he had been born of a virgin. It was also mentioned that Jesus and Moses had been born of virgins. |
| Catholicism | minor | Peter went to confession to confess to the priest that he was cheating on his wife. Other aspects of the Catholic Church were seen in the film, including a woman describing how she gave her newborn child to Catholic nuns. |
| corruption in society | minor | A Harlen drug dealer was paying off a corrupt police officer to oversee the systematic overlooking of the drug dealing of himself and his associates. |
| finding religion | minor | A man expressed joy to Peter over God having told him to murder his own son, just as Abraham had been told. |
| having a baby out of wedlock | minor | It was revealed that Peter was born to a virgin and that she had been traumatized over the experience of having had a baby out of wedlock in 1940s New York. |