Did you know that you were a Christian every time you watched a horror movie?
Quote:Black Phone 2 writer: Everyone 'is a Christian' when they watch horror movies
Director Scott Derrickson and co-writer C. Robert Cargill (partners on both Black Phone movies, Sinister, and Sinister 2), who both identify as Christians, say that horror movies automatically turn viewers into Christians, at least for the film's run time.
"The minute an audience sits down for a horror movie, everyone in that audience is a Christian," Cargill says. "If there's a demon in the movie, everyone's immediately like, Yes, reading from the Bible can chase it away. Yes, Hell is a real place. Yes, of course, the devil can impregnate a woman, you can have a child of the devil. That makes total sense. And then they get up and leave it all there in the movie theater."
With that in mind, he and Derrickson felt they could address Christianity in the Black Phone sequel more directly than they did in the first movie. "It doesn't matter what religion you are when you sit down for horror," he says. "Christianity is baked into our horror to the point where people understand and acknowledge the rules, so we knew we could just say it out loud."
https://www.polygon.com/black-phone-2-wr...hristians/
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"
