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re: Why do you think Christianity is attacked in tv shows/movies?

Posted on 6/23/23 at 12:12 pm to
Posted by themetalreb
Mississippi
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Posted on 6/23/23 at 12:12 pm to
Posted by caro81
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Posted on 6/23/23 at 12:45 pm to
I see Jews getting poked fun at more often than Christians. Both get a fair amount of it.

Partly because of its more identifiable and understandable by most of the American audience. They could poke fun of Buddhists or Hindu's but it wouldnt hit home for alot of folks.

I dont think Christianity is attacked relentlessly. People are getting too sensitive these days. Get some thicker skin.
This post was edited on 6/23/23 at 3:18 pm
Posted by FredBear
Georgia
Member since Aug 2017
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Posted on 6/23/23 at 12:56 pm to
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People are getting too sensitive these days. Get some thicker skin.



Would this apply to people of color and the alphabet people to?
Posted by H-Town Tiger
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Posted on 6/23/23 at 12:58 pm to
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Few if any Hollywood films in the last twenty years or more have managed more anti-Catholic punch than Elizabeth: The Golden Age (2007). “Every Catholic in England is a potential assassin,”


I stopped in that article right here
I’m mean does the author know anything about Elizabeth I or that period in English history? If he thinks a movie from her perspective was treating Catholics as the bad guys because Hollywood hates Catholics, then I would say he does not. Elizabeth I claim to the throne is entirely based on her and her father renouncing Catholicism and starting a new Church of England. And please note in that particular time of history there were plenty of atrocities committed by Catholics and Protestants against each other.

As for the other examples. The Ghostbusters remake that was obviously just a wokefest, wokies hate Catholics/Christians over issues like Abortion and Gay Marriage at best or simply because the Religious Right votes Republican.

As far as the Tarzan example, it the bad guy was a Muslim or black, the “left” would probably complain but what would the “right” say? Probably that it’s just a movie or some such. Everything needs context, but overall Christians/White Men and the Russian Mob became the only acceptable villains thanks to political correctness if that’s the answer you are looking for
This post was edited on 6/23/23 at 1:50 pm
Posted by KiwiHead
Auckland, NZ
Member since Jul 2014
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Posted on 6/23/23 at 12:58 pm to
Christianity has not done itself any favors on the PR front. Let's review

James and Tammy Faye Baker
Jimmy Swaggert and Airline Hwy hookers
Oral Roberts being held hostage by God
Pedo Priests in the Catholic Church
Homosexual scandals in Catholic Church
Ted Haggard "visiting" male prostitutes

This is just a sampling. But you can go into financial scandals as well. So Hollywood takes its queue to paint them as grifters and hypocrites.... I mean, these scandals happened.

Posted by H-Town Tiger
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Posted on 6/23/23 at 1:15 pm to
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Would this apply to people of color and the alphabet people to?


100%. There are times when there is gratuitous bashing of whatever group and others where it make sense. Each project should be judged individually. Sorry if someone is offended that Muslim extremist commit acts of terror in NYC in the Siege but there were these incidents before (93) and after (2001). By the same token if you don’t like Priest pedo jokes too bad, should have thought of that before the Church covered up pedophile abuse by Priests for decades around the world.
Posted by FredBear
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Posted on 6/23/23 at 1:22 pm to
I agree with this
Posted by dgnx6
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Posted on 6/23/23 at 1:28 pm to
Because the left runs most of entertainment and the internet and they despise christians. They despise all religion, but wont say anything about islam or judaism.
Posted by dgnx6
Member since Feb 2006
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Posted on 6/23/23 at 1:29 pm to
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Pedo Priests in the Catholic Church
Homosexual scandals in Catholic Church
Ted Haggard "visiting" male prostitutes


these are the lgbt people though.

I mean having sex with a male prostitute or a male child doesnt make you straight.
Posted by Jack Ruby
Member since Apr 2014
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Posted on 6/23/23 at 1:40 pm to
Christians won't fight them back. That's kind of the whole religion... Peace, healing, forgiveness, love, and faith.

It also does not help that Hollywood snd entertainment are all Molochians, so by their very nature they hate everything associated with Christianity /Jesue/Creator, etc.

They don't do it Muslims because they will get beheaded...
Posted by Saint Alfonzo
Member since Jan 2019
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Posted on 6/23/23 at 1:52 pm to
Hollywood loves them some Satan.
Posted by SammyTiger
Baton Rouge, LA
Member since Feb 2009
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Posted on 6/23/23 at 1:55 pm to
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We should be thankful that we "get to believe"? Okay...thank you for allowing that.


can you say Christianity has always been so generous?
Posted by Pilot Tiger
North Carolina
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Posted on 6/23/23 at 1:58 pm to
funny I was just watching Ladybird the other day and thought that film handled the whole Christian/Catholic school thing amazingly fair.

The priest and nun were very kind, wise, and supportive of their students and didn't really come into any amount of criticism

But that doesn't fit any of yall's victimhood complex
Posted by themetalreb
Mississippi
Member since Sep 2018
6931 posts
Posted on 6/23/23 at 2:01 pm to
Lol...so would you like to compare the "fair" treatment of Christianity in shows vs the shows which are blatantly on the attack?

Another thing I've learned is this: when someone from the left stands up for their ideals, they are simply "standing for what's right"...but in the rare case of the right pointing out the ridiculous hypocrisy of the left, they are "playing the victim". That's pretty neat.
This post was edited on 6/23/23 at 2:05 pm
Posted by JW
Los Angeles
Member since Jul 2004
5253 posts
Posted on 6/23/23 at 2:03 pm to
I'm not sure I have ever come across an attack on Christianity as a viewer or filmmaker. Or maybe it was so slight and innocuous I didn't notice. Seems like a bit of alarmist overthinking/anti hollywood nonsense that pops up here daily.

Posted by Havoc
Member since Nov 2015
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Posted on 6/23/23 at 2:03 pm to
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You lunatics have an entire section of world history dedicated to enforcing stereotypes and persecution of anyone who may be different than you... Just be thankful that you get to believe your fiction while simultaneously complaining about drag queens or any movie that acknowledges black or gay people exist, and then cry because you're confused why nobody fricking likes you.

Wow that’s a lot of rabid idiocy in one sentence.
This is my favorite part:
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complaining about…any movie that acknowledges black or gay people exist

Sure, unhinged wacko.
Posted by SammyTiger
Baton Rouge, LA
Member since Feb 2009
79454 posts
Posted on 6/23/23 at 2:05 pm to
probably because the loudest christian’s act like those stereotypes.

most christian’s are genuinely good people, but the ones in people’s faces are the ones everyone sees.
Posted by ThuperThumpin
Member since Dec 2013
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Posted on 6/23/23 at 2:15 pm to



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in general Christians have been reluctant to significantly push back (or at least sustain the push back).


Thats because most of the time the "attacks" on Christianity are comedic in nature and mature adults that are secure in their beliefs can laugh at themselves. And obviously not all Christians think the same.
Posted by DaleGribble
Bend, OR
Member since Sep 2014
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Posted on 6/23/23 at 2:27 pm to
Oh look. It's an angry Atheist.
Posted by rhar61
Member since Nov 2022
5109 posts
Posted on 6/23/23 at 2:28 pm to
because it is "cool" to do so

kind of boring to do so if you ask me
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