[quote]SexMachine wrote:
Why are you in some sort of “conflict” or antagonistic relationship with almost everybody here tirib? Is this something about Jesus?[/quote]
A long time ago, when Tiribulus was deciding how to present himself to the T-Nation community, he asked himself, “What Would Jesus Do”. Then he opened his Bible and landed on Luke 12:51.
[quote]Varqanir wrote:
[quote]SexMachine wrote:
Why are you in some sort of “conflict” or antagonistic relationship with almost everybody here tirib? Is this something about Jesus?[/quote]
A long time ago, when Tiribulus was deciding how to present himself to the T-Nation community, he asked himself, “What Would Jesus Do”. Then he opened his Bible and landed on Luke 12:51.[/quote]
I can still respect someone who is divisive if they’re divisive out of sincere religious conviction and they don’t make it personal.
[quote]Tiribulus wrote:
Now that this flick has been out a while, I’m hoping for some more views on what people thought of it.[/quote]
I actually thought it was decent for this reason. While many of these concepts they introduced are pretty superficial and barely scratch the surface, it introduces these concepts to people who have never even given any thought to it before. Those of us who are familiar with theistic and atheistic arguments are in the vast minority.
The movie’s goal was to get most people to think about that which they have never thought about before. At that level I think they succeeded.
And let’s face it, anything more intellectually demanding would have been really boring.
Could they have made it better? I don’t know, given the subject matter they were tackling, and the audience they were targeting, I reckon they did as well as they could.
I agree with Pat here, for the most part. The movie kept my attention and there were many parts that I agreed with in the whole GOD debate. However I do have to say that the views of GOD are definitively through a Protestants glasses. Simply saying you believe in GOD does not grant someone the blessings of heaven. We all deserve to roast in hell. The doctors of the church all say this explicitly. GOD’s Blessings grant us into Heaven, nothing more or less. Without trying to get into the whole Catholicism vs Protestant debate, I find myself defending the One, True and Apostolic Faith. There are not numerous elevators leading to Heaven. There is only one. This movie did try though.
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[quote]pat wrote:
[quote]Tiribulus wrote:
Now that this flick has been out a while, I’m hoping for some more views on what people thought of it.[/quote]
I actually thought it was decent for this reason. While many of these concepts they introduced are pretty superficial and barely scratch the surface, it introduces these concepts to people who have never even given any thought to it before. Those of us who are familiar with theistic and atheistic arguments are in the vast minority.
The movie’s goal was to get most people to think about that which they have never thought about before. At that level I think they succeeded.
And let’s face it, anything more intellectually demanding would have been really boring.
Could they have made it better? I don’t know, given the subject matter they were tackling, and the audience they were targeting, I reckon they did as well as they could.[/quote]
[quote]DBCooper wrote:
[quote]Tiribulus wrote:
As I say. Maybe I’ll dig this thread back out when the DVD is released and more people have seen it.[/quote]
I downloaded it off the Internet and watched it a couple days ago. I did so after reading this thread and figured that someone who actually saw it was needed to heap the steaming piles of shit on it that it begs for.
I should preface this by saying that I didn’t actually make it to the end of the movie. It was that bad.
The film demonizes literally every population demographic that isn’t white and Christian. it is made by a person/persons who have almost no concept of Jesus’ actual teachings, this film being the most damning evidence of this disconnect between their religion and the beliefs it professes. There is no attempt to treat anyone like they would prefer to be treated. There is no attempt to refrain from throwing stones in glass houses, a sense of forgiveness is replaced with overt, over-the-top righteousness, and it generally is very mean-spirited.
It seems to me that the filmmakers simply have stooped to the same level that they accuse atheists of, but then hide behind the false veneer of righteousness.
I forget what book it’s contained in (either Matthew or Luke, I think), but there is a great piece of advice from Jesus: do not proclaim your righteousness for others to hear, for if you do so, you do so against the will of the Father. But that is essentially what this movie does. It proclaims the righteousness of believers while reducing all non-believers to caricatures reminiscent of the old Looney Tunes portrayals of blacks and Hispanics.[/quote]
Don’t worry, there is still plenty of bi-sexual porn that meets your criteria of academic rigor. Just stick with that, stick with what you know…
A Christian movie reviewer weighs in.
I have not seen the film, and really don’t have any pressing desire to.
Seems to me like a cinematic version of a Chick Tract.