Propaganda Films and Hate Speech

[Rev. Rye]

(bolding mine) 

Is it really propaganda or hate speech if a given religion in fact prohibits their bishops from marrying, for instance, and another denomination correctly points to Scripture acknowledging married bishops ??

It wouldn't necessarily be hate motivating the disclosure, but perhaps just a desire to see more fealty to the bible and more folks eligible for Salvation.

I'd say all Christians are entitled to know which denominations are 'doing it right' and which ones aren't

Still not really the focus of the discussion; non-believers' response (if any is recommended) to hate speech from every direction faith comes from, is, not what they have to say about each other. They're all producing this crap, we don't seem to have an organized antidote as far as narratives go, just speeches, debates and reviews of these piles of shit.

That's the thing about atheism, unlike Christianity, it's not a belief system in and of itself. It's merely a facet of one (one that can be a part of belief systems ranging from communism to Objectivism to secular humanism). The success of those religious films relies on a sort of cultural signalling impulse that's endemic in Evangelical Christianity, something that atheists tend to lack. Christians (at least the type who are the audience of this sort of film) latch onto a film like Old-Fashioned or War Room simply because it reflects (or more accurately, preaches) the sort of worldview they want to push, regardless of said film's actual quality. All such a film needs to get noticed is a sort of preachiness and the right distributor (or a positive shout-out from the Dove Foundation). If we were to make an atheistic counterpoint to said films, let's be realistic: you'd look at the reviews (and Rotten Tomatoes score if applicable) before you'd consider bothering to watch it, wouldn't you?

TL;DR: If you don't plan to suspend your critical thought and fall into cultural groupthink like them, you can't expect to sustain an equal and opposite reaction to those films.