How we cite our quotes: All quotations are from Ghostbusters.
Quote #7
WINSTON: Hey, Ray. Do you remember something in the Bible about the last days, when the dead would rise from the grave?
RAY: I remember Revelation 7:12. And I looked, as he opened the sixth seal, and behold, there was a great earthquake, and the sun became as black as sackcloth. And the moon became as blood.
WINSTON: And the seas boiled and the skies fell.
RAY: Judgment Day.
WINSTON: Judgment Day.
RAY: Every ancient religion has its own myth about the end of the world.
WINSTON: Myth? Ray, has it ever occurred to you that maybe the reason we've been so busy lately is because the dead have been rising from the grave?
It seems like the movie basically has three threads of the supernatural world running through it. We've got the world of ghosts, Christianity, and Gozer-worship. This is first place in the movie that weaves all three together, with Ray and Winston theorizing that all religions have similar Doomsday myths and that many include the dead rising from the grave. It's pretty great how organically the script connects the dots here.
Quote #8
EGON: After the First World War, Shandor decided that society was too sick to survive. And he wasn't alone. He had close to a thousand followers when he died. They conducted rituals up on the roof, bizarre rituals intended to bring about the end of the world, and now it looks like it may actually happen!
Where most religions look to the supernatural world for salvation, redemption, or peace, Gozer-worshipers look to it to totally obliterate everything. To the Gozer cult, the world is too corrupt to survive and needs to be destroyed.
Quote #9
RAY: What he means is Old Testament biblical, Mr. Mayor. Real wrath-of-God-type stuff. Fire and brimstone coming from the sky! Rivers and seas boiling!
EGON: Forty years of darkness! Earthquakes! Volcanoes!
WINSTON: The dead rising from the grave!
PETER: Human sacrifice, dogs and cats living together, mass hysteria!
The movie gives us a scenario in which the Biblically predicted Doomsday doesn't come from any Christian figures, but instead from a god of some forgotten religion. What should we take from this? Could it be that all religions are inspired by the same super-powerful beings? Is Gozer supposed to be another version of Satan? The movie doesn't got into details so we're left to come up with our own theories.