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... once I did, it's been an enjoyable, useful and entertaining series especially this episode. My belief this world would be a much better place without any religion where we put more faith in ourselves and one another rather than the "magic dude in the sky" is actually reinforced by this series and this episode in particular.

'No one decides where they were born. Our birth place was decided by faith. You were born here, I was born there. What divides us? A border is an idea decided by the lucky. Today you seat in a seat of the fortunate. Just remember what put you there. Faith. What is faith but the hand of God.'

I'm not a religious person but this speech was beautiful.

In this fourth episode we come back to the main characters from Syria and Israel, but mostly, the action is in Texas. Each one of them stays true to their personality, but somehow - and I cannnot praise the film-making enough here, the way a story is told by pictures, facial expressions, or even by not moving at all - something changes in each one of them.

"Al-Masih" says very little, but always in straight sentences. No mushy sermons, no Hallelujahs. And what he says, it makes a difference. It changes the way people behave. How they think. How they are.

He does not need a miracle.

That is what I like best in this show: the down-to-earth-, matter-of-fact-ness. CIA officers behave like they're supposed to do, Shin Beth agents, too. Politicians, lawyers, even the judge - they do not feel out of character at all.

And still ... events turn out very different from what they were supposed to be. Was it the few words from Al-Masih "... remember: it was fate that put you here", that made a man act so very differently from how he'd acted for 40 years?

Very well done! And fascinating to watch.

10/10

The high faith of a Baptist pastor and the trick with a coin front to a kid are the basic virtues, for me, of this episode. When you expect the proofs for know than "Al Masih" is Him, the words are exactly the perfect tool. So, a precise- inspired portrait for each character.

Sigh It wouldn't be the internet without dismissive antitheist rhetoric. Wsv calls God a magic dude in the sky. Yet more of the antitheists lumping together anything they don't agree with. If ''magic'' or ''superstition'' is anything they don't agree with then these words don't mean much. If x just means ''thing I don't agree with'' then x could be anything anyone arbitrarily decides it is. As for having faith in people now that seems to me a delusion. How many more awful things must people do to each other all of the time in every continent before the human race realises how rotten it is? If the gods are all delusions and if humanity invented them like the antoheists claim then actually it's people who are the problem.