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The Soon Coming Judgment Of God Upon America and How To Escape It 137
Fifteen years ago the industry had already deteriorated to the point where Patrick
Buchanan made the following statement: “We live in an age where…Christian bashing is a
popular indoor sport; and films mocking Jesus Christ are considered avant-garde.” (Washington
Times, July 27, 1988.)
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Speaking on this very subject of Christian bashing, Don McAlvany,
in his book Storm
Warning: The Coming Persecution of Christians and Traditionalists in America, lists 16
examples of movies, which are particularly offensive towards Christians. These movies are: The
Runner Stumbles, Monsignor, Agnes of God, The Penitent, Crimes of Passion, The Handmaid’s
Tale, The Rapture, At Play In the Fields of the Lord, Guilty As Charged, Priest, The Quick and
the Dead, Alien 3, Star Trek V: The Final Frontier, Johnny Mnemonic, Cape Fear and The Last
Temptation of Christ. While Christians are sinners and while Christian leaders and individual
Christians fall, these movies and others are “vicious form[s] of anti-Christian propaganda.”
Christians are characterized “as wicked devils who prey upon the weak, the sincere, the good
people.” Medved in Hollywood vs. America points out that the one recurring theme in a number
of modern films is “clergy who kill their illicit lover”. Christian clergyman are portrayed as
dangerous murders who prey upon the innocent while at the same time they pretend to live
peaceful lives using their position of clerical authority as a mask to hide their true evil self.
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attack of this sort would not be tolerated on any other group in America but Christians are fair
game as stated by Lloyd Billingsley below:
One can't imagine a Hollywood film whose entire purpose was to ridicule,
say, homosexual activists, feminists, animal rights crusaders, or
environmentalists. That would be blasphemy. Hollywood understands that
religious people, particularly Christians, are the last group in America besides
businessmen who may be defamed with impunity. (The Seductive Image: A
Christian Critique of the World of Film. 1989.)
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Movies don't just degrade Christianity but they sell sin. Violence and sex are almost a
constant. The outlaws in many films are the heroes; one classic example of this is Butch Cassidy
and the Sundance Kid a more recent example is Entrapment with Sean Connery.
Violence and Murder
Murder is graphically portrayed in drama, action adventure and horror films. The graphic
displays of violence desensitizes people to the violence, it becomes normal. Even worse, some
people are turned on by the graphic violence and killing. Some examples of violent
psychological dramas are: Silence of the Lambs, Natural Born Killers and Pulp Fiction. Violent
action films and their sequels are even more common; films like: Die Hard, Terminator, Taxi
Driver, Mean Streets, Goodfellas, and Robocop. Another category of violent films are horror
film also known as slasher movies. These extremely graphic movies have been popular among
teens and young adult for over 25 years, movies like Halloween, Friday the 13th, Scream, Killjoy,
Nightmare On Elm Street, I know What You Did Last Summer, The Faculty, Night of the Living
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