I was googling around trying to find a synopsis of the movie Syriana and stumbled on the site Christian Answers, where in addition to some incredible movie reviews (these are like the movie reviews on Betty Bowers , except they’re real- you learn how Harry Potter mocks the sacrifice of the Lord Jesus Christ, for example) there’s this page. As it will probably change by the 14th, I’ll write out what it says:
This is the prayer that you’re encouraged to pray (putting Carolyn Strauss and Jon Stewart in the blanks, I’m assuming):
There’s much much more to the prayer, but copyright and all…
Wow. Just… wow. A prayer for the perfidious Jews of Hollywood, learning why Harry Potter is supportive of child sacrifice and such wonderful movie review lines as
all in one site. Ah… sometimes you gotta love the Christian Right. There’s no camp like Bible Camp, after all.
What I love about prayers like this is the implication that the person offering the prayer knows what God does or does not approve of.
Dear God, whom I am sure agrees with me in every conceivable aspect, please correct ______(insert celebrity I don’t agree with) and make him see the error of his ways. Please convince him to comply with Pat Robertson’s political teachings. My, uh, Thy will be done….
I’m not sure, but I think this is the moral equivalent of praying for a Lamborgini stuffed with the Swedish Bikini Team.
You know, I am a Christian (read- I am a humble follower of Jesus), and I am have been at a slow boil lately…a simmer if you will…
:mad:
But not at the secular media or the godless heathens…
At my fellow Christians…
We have been given a book about the birth, life and love of Jesus. It is the perfect guidebook to show UNCONDITIONAL LOVE to EVERYONE!!! So we take this book and its message into our hearts and instead of using it to become conduits of God’s love we become SANCTIMONIOUS ASSHOLES!!!
IF OUR GOAL IS TO HAVE OTHERS LEARN ABOUT AND EMBRACE GOD’S LOVE AS IT HAS BEEN SHOWN TO US, A VAST MAJORITY OF CHRISTIAN’S ARE ACTING IN A WAY THAT MAKES NON-CHRISTIANS WANT NOTHING TO DO WITH US OR OUR FAITH…!!!
Fill in the blank prayers? WTF?!
There will always be movies, books, art etc that do not fit the Christian ethos. As a Christian, you are not called to defend us from these things, you are called to LOVE YOUR NEIGHBOR, not act like GOD MADE YOU ARBITER OF RIGHT AND WRONG!!!
If I were a praying man; I would pray for a billion more Christians to feel/act like you.
I was baptised but I left the RCC a long time ago and I am simply agnostic now.
I think Jon Stewart is one the best people on TV.
(BTW Crazy Christian Right, Jon Stewart is a Jersey boy that films in NY)
Strange coinky dink. I too stumbled on that site last week and got a huge kick reading the reviews of such movies as Resident Evil and Doom. Why even review those movies on a site like that? Don’t the titles kind of clue people in that they won’t be a good old family values movies?
That day they were asking Christians to pierce Stephen Spielberg’s heart. My first thought (which I didn’t follow through on) was to come to the Dope and ask if anyone knew why Stevie needed prayers. So it’s because he’s Jewish?
Wow, do I appreciate your post, newcrasher. I know way to many “well-meaning” Christians (sometimes including me, I’m sorry to say) who, even though nice people, lose sight of exactly what you point out, in their enthusiasm to show everyone that they’re “in the world, but not of it.”
I think I’ll print out what you said, take it out & read it every day to remind myself not to be one of “those” Christians.
It’s not the fill-in-the-blank nature of the prayers that’s so bad. We Jews have fill-in-the-blank Yizkor (memorial) prayers, in which the person praying is supposed to fill in the name of the deceased person they are mourning. I don’t have a problem with that, and I suspect most people wouldn’t.
The nature of the “prayers” mentioned on that site, though…
I’ve read the Christian Spotlight on the Movies reviews from the IMDB page for particular movies. The reviews are especially funny for something particularly blasphemous, like American Pie or South Park. But even innocuous movies get bad reviews. Only Christian-themed films like the Left Behind movies ever get excellent ratings. I don’t think I’ve ever met someone this religious.
“Chalk full?” Personally, I would like some explanation of the nuanced differences between “offensive,” “very offensive” and “extremely offensive.” How else am I supposed to know just how offended I should be when I go see these movies?
Best dang response I’ve ever seen on SDMB. I’m a MOT ;j in heritage, kinda Buddhist/Quaker in philosophy. I figure you have definitely got the Buddha nature (if you don’t mind my saying so).
Hey, wait a minute…
You’re not the big guy himself, are you? :smack:
Yipe! That would be weird; you praise someone for getting right to the heart of religious faith and then find that it’s the Almighty (or her Son)!
Well, if You are, I hope You look like Alanis Morrisette after all.
