I recently watched “God’s not Dead” or, more accurately, the parts in the lecture hall and not the other side quests, like with that guy and his car insurance.
Firstly, with these kind of movies you never know which kind of Christians you will get and I was “pleasantly” surprised to discover that these were those that take big bang and evolution for granted. So the whole movie is about forcing the “first cause” & cosmological arguments.
Now, if I was to expect something serious from a “Christian” movie I guess it would be that it tackles Christian problems, like how come Christian government lets itself rationalize putting children in cages, although somewhere in the Bible Jesus said people should protect children? Or how come ultra-Christian politicians for years now call publicly for mass murder of innocent people like gays? Or, perhaps, how the same conservatives can be so much for things like “every man for himself” that is ultra-capitalism and oligarchy while, at the same time, apparently believe that Jesus said take care of the poor, take care of the sick? Or how can some Christians still insist on teaching 6 day creation in schools? etc.
But, instead, Christians make a movie about some fantasy college professor that calls out Christian students and constantly freaks out about them like some lunatic, all in an effort to make a movie that portrays how Christians today are being persecuted by atheists who have this sick obsession with them. Sick obsession? Watching this movie and seeing how it falsely portrays and lies to you that scientists, like Stephen Hawking, are “proving” that god doesn’t exist with their big bang theories when all they are saying is that there is no proof there is a god behind creation of the universe rather than insisting there is no god. Simply not dealing with god hypothesis is not claiming that there mustn’t be god and at the same time persecuting Christians. I mean I see that people who insist there is a god that created universe in 6 days and flooded it as much bigger problem, but which is something that makers of this movie are completely ignoring (although they should be against it since it is established that apparently they are for science), as if it’s not even a problem worth mentioning.
So it rather seems that Christians, or at least the authors of this movie, are obsessed with atheists and not the other way around. Especially when they made two more movies about the same subject and in each movie the atheists get more and more obsessive and antagonizing toward Christians. I mean in the third movie atheists even burn down the fucking church. And those are just movies in this series, I wouldn’t be surprised that all “Pure Flix” movies are about same subject.
So this is perhaps the biggest pitfall for Christians: that they completely fail to reflect on themselves. Worse yet, it makes them look snotty, holier of the holies that they don’t have problems to deal with but that other people are the problem.
Now, when all that is said I can say that the movie was boring and irritating. Let me make clear it wasn’t their logical fallacies in “proving” god that made me irritated, but just bored. What made me irritated was that most of the “actors” in the movie are pretty bad and not actors at all, but they all have minor roles and the movie is not the one you expect much so it’s bearable, but what is not bearable is this guy
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who is obviously not an actor nor has a face for camera. He really seems like some sort of a hunchback with a disproportionately long, giant head and very stupid haircut on top and, worst of all, he obviously fancies himself as being cute. So it didn’t surprise me when I learned that this guy bought himself a role in the movie by being a producer.
I mean we’ve all seen cameos by non-actors in the movies and they are usually short, but even as such can ruin the movie. For instance, I remember watching that movie “The Muse” (1999) in which Martin Scorsese has a small cameo. Now, Scorsese is a great director, but when you see him in that movie he’s tearing your eyes apart since he can’t even stand properly, but has his head leaning forward, again being little bit hunched. Acting is obviously something not to be taken superficially. Now imagine that superimposed on almost 2 hour movie with that fugly guy being edited in the middle of other scenes is just a pure torture.
Firstly, with these kind of movies you never know which kind of Christians you will get and I was “pleasantly” surprised to discover that these were those that take big bang and evolution for granted. So the whole movie is about forcing the “first cause” & cosmological arguments.
Now, if I was to expect something serious from a “Christian” movie I guess it would be that it tackles Christian problems, like how come Christian government lets itself rationalize putting children in cages, although somewhere in the Bible Jesus said people should protect children? Or how come ultra-Christian politicians for years now call publicly for mass murder of innocent people like gays? Or, perhaps, how the same conservatives can be so much for things like “every man for himself” that is ultra-capitalism and oligarchy while, at the same time, apparently believe that Jesus said take care of the poor, take care of the sick? Or how can some Christians still insist on teaching 6 day creation in schools? etc.
But, instead, Christians make a movie about some fantasy college professor that calls out Christian students and constantly freaks out about them like some lunatic, all in an effort to make a movie that portrays how Christians today are being persecuted by atheists who have this sick obsession with them. Sick obsession? Watching this movie and seeing how it falsely portrays and lies to you that scientists, like Stephen Hawking, are “proving” that god doesn’t exist with their big bang theories when all they are saying is that there is no proof there is a god behind creation of the universe rather than insisting there is no god. Simply not dealing with god hypothesis is not claiming that there mustn’t be god and at the same time persecuting Christians. I mean I see that people who insist there is a god that created universe in 6 days and flooded it as much bigger problem, but which is something that makers of this movie are completely ignoring (although they should be against it since it is established that apparently they are for science), as if it’s not even a problem worth mentioning.
So it rather seems that Christians, or at least the authors of this movie, are obsessed with atheists and not the other way around. Especially when they made two more movies about the same subject and in each movie the atheists get more and more obsessive and antagonizing toward Christians. I mean in the third movie atheists even burn down the fucking church. And those are just movies in this series, I wouldn’t be surprised that all “Pure Flix” movies are about same subject.
So this is perhaps the biggest pitfall for Christians: that they completely fail to reflect on themselves. Worse yet, it makes them look snotty, holier of the holies that they don’t have problems to deal with but that other people are the problem.
Now, when all that is said I can say that the movie was boring and irritating. Let me make clear it wasn’t their logical fallacies in “proving” god that made me irritated, but just bored. What made me irritated was that most of the “actors” in the movie are pretty bad and not actors at all, but they all have minor roles and the movie is not the one you expect much so it’s bearable, but what is not bearable is this guy
who is obviously not an actor nor has a face for camera. He really seems like some sort of a hunchback with a disproportionately long, giant head and very stupid haircut on top and, worst of all, he obviously fancies himself as being cute. So it didn’t surprise me when I learned that this guy bought himself a role in the movie by being a producer.
I mean we’ve all seen cameos by non-actors in the movies and they are usually short, but even as such can ruin the movie. For instance, I remember watching that movie “The Muse” (1999) in which Martin Scorsese has a small cameo. Now, Scorsese is a great director, but when you see him in that movie he’s tearing your eyes apart since he can’t even stand properly, but has his head leaning forward, again being little bit hunched. Acting is obviously something not to be taken superficially. Now imagine that superimposed on almost 2 hour movie with that fugly guy being edited in the middle of other scenes is just a pure torture.
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"
