Propaganda Films and Hate Speech

[Rev. Rye]

Well, they don't say that you should kill atheists, but... let's say it this way: Kevin Sorbo's character gets hit by a car, and the two predatory Christian dudes ("the heroes") talk him into accepting Jesus and convert him to Christianity there on the tarmac during his last seconds. I don't think they make any effort to get medical help, and they don't care much, because the top priority is to get him into Jesus camp. When he's dead, they coverted him just in time, and I think the black guy then says "Today is.a good day!".

Actually, the words used were: "What happened here tonight, is a cause for celebration. A short pain, but think about the joy in heaven." A bit worse, if I do say so myself.

And, for the record, with the question about how to respond to such films: Brad Jones' show The Cinema Snob, while usually featuring the sort of exploitation films the MST3K crew would consider too bad to feature, has recently (since November 2015) started to feature recent religious films of the God's Not Dead ilk and doing what I think is probably the best response to such films: taking those films and calling them out on their bullshit, and bear in mind: he has a big background in religion (in his recent Christian Mingle: The Movie review, he states he has 12+ years of experience in Christian education), so he knows what he's talking about. My personal favorite moment comes in his Last Ounce of Courage review, where he calls out the protagonist's claims that towns would come under fire for putting up Christmas decorations by going outside to show THE DOME OF THE ILLINOIS STATE CAPITOL DECKED OUT IN CHRISTMAS LIGHTS. He also does this when the movie bemoans a lack of Christmas music on the radio (he points out there are two stations in his range that were, at that point, playing Christmas music 24/7.)

You can see them (well, most of them, anyway) on his YouTube channel: Stoned Gremlin Productions.

On top of that, there are quite a few other Christian propaganda pieces on Another show of his called "Dvd-R hell." He even wrote and starred in (but NOT directed, oddly enough) a movie making fun of the same religious films he reviewed called "Jesus, Bro!" That one you can't watch for free, but you can buy it. I sure did, and if you've got a high tolerance for low production values (mostly a shoutout to the low budget of the films he's taking on and partly a result of a budget of about 50 grand) and a yen for making fun of those shitty movies, get the DVD. I did.