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SocketWrench posted:So a hate filled rear end in a top hat with the morals of poo poo....I think if anything pisses me off about "christian" films it's how more often than not everyone not Christian is an ignorant gently caress with no values It has a lot to do with the particular mindset of the particular flavor of American Evangelical Protestant that these kinds of movies are aimed at. In this worldview that they have been taught all their life, their flavor of religion is both the source of all moral virtue in the world and glaringly and obviously true. Non-Christians acting morally cannot exist in this worldview because they reject the only source of morality and virtue. In the same way no one can reject their flavor of religion honestly without being ignorant of it because it is so blindingly obvious and perfect. Admitting that one can be truly good and not a Christian, or not think Christianity is true after having all the information, is simply not possible in this worldview, it completely contradicts it. Now those of us not in this target audience can point to numerous examples that disprove these notions from simply interacting with the rest of the world. The problem is that the audience these films are aimed at tend to isolate themselves through things like homeschooling specifically to avoid this. Hell, that's the whole reason for this thread, they had to make their own movies so they would not be exposed to evidence against their worldview. It's a very depressing thing to feel your worldview has been de-legitimized/proven wrong, and humans will go to great lengths to avoid that feeling. Note that this is only referring to a particular subset of American Evangelical Protestants. And about this specific genre of film. Devout Christians can and have made movies about explicitly Christian stuff, but this thread is about this weird insular sub-industry.
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