Rarely is he any kind of hero, unless it's made clear that he's the "good" kind of Christian who has broke from his church, defies it's authority and accepts all manner of sinners as being not really sinners. In other words, he may be good if he - or she - is pro-LBGTQ or otherwise anti-"any Christian doctrine" you can think of.
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| The only good Hollywood Christian pastors are lesbian married co-pastors. |
It is complained sometimes that Hollywood does unusually few Christian movies in a nation that is not only the third largest nation on Earth, but has more Christians than any nation on Earth. So once in awhile, they'll trot out a "Christian" movie or TV show. And I'm speaking of the mainstream of Hollywood, not the specifically Christian movie makers that have popped up as a "niche" market.
(That Christian movie making by various church groups and church organizations is regarded as a "niche" market in this largest of Christian nations says it all.)
This applies to an allegedly religious series like "Left Behind", too. Jesus is massively downplayed. The Rapture was of...not those who accepted Christ, but those who were "good". Or take the quintessential "Christian" themed movie from none other than Stephen King. "The Stand".
Another Good versus Evil, Light versus Dark, where Jesus plays no role at all. Good is represented by Mother Abigail who can do magic, and Dark is represented by Randall Flagg who can do magic. Never mind that the whole thing in real life would have been over as fast as it would take any character to simply pray to Jesus.
Perhaps this is due to Hollywood wanting to have suspense in their movies, but I doubt it. Suspense could be had over whether the characters would accept Jesus fast enough. No, it's propaganda. And if it is not, then it has the trait of being remarkably similar to being propaganda, and having the exact same effect.
But as bad as it is when the mainstream ignores Christianity, it is even worse when they do not ignore us. They know this, of course, it's not by accident that they get it so wrong, it's pure anti-Christian propaganda from start to finish, sugar coated to taste sweet and nice so that the poison goes down better.
Where would I go to find an example of their specific and deliberate malice and misrepresentation? Oh, any number of places, but let us choose "Highway to Heaven". Too far back? Au contraire, when I clicked on a list of "Christian TV series" one site had that one as Number Six, with that silly "The Young Pope" as the Number One. That alone speaks volumes about Hollywood and it's hate of any Christian programming.
"Highway to Heaven" typifies how Hollywood portrays Christianity. In it, God and Satan are equal and opposite forces of Good and Evil. The more educated of you recognize that as Zoroastrianistic, not Judaic or Christian or even Islamic. It's been known as a heresy to think that is the case for, well, ever, but Hollywood plays like it doesn't realize this.
God then has sent an angel down - played by Michael Landon of "Little House on the Prairie" fame - to aid various humans. With his magical powers. Thus when a human is in trouble, it is not Jesus, but a random angel played like a down home cracker barrel philosopher who should be called upon.
"Highway to Heaven" typifies how Hollywood portrays Christianity. In it, God and Satan are equal and opposite forces of Good and Evil. The more educated of you recognize that as Zoroastrianistic, not Judaic or Christian or even Islamic. It's been known as a heresy to think that is the case for, well, ever, but Hollywood plays like it doesn't realize this.
God then has sent an angel down - played by Michael Landon of "Little House on the Prairie" fame - to aid various humans. With his magical powers. Thus when a human is in trouble, it is not Jesus, but a random angel played like a down home cracker barrel philosopher who should be called upon.
Unsurprising, though. The name Jesus Christ is rarely mentioned at any time in Hollywood films or shows, unless as a curse. This "Christian" show then is about how humans are trapped between Good and Evil and only the magically random intervention of angels can aid us.
Why do I say "magic" and not "miracle"? Because miracles are things done by God, and for His Divine purposes. What Hollywood shows are tricks done by a super-being that they enjoy calling an "angel", though if he were a real angel, his first advice would have been to "fear not", as angels are powerful and scary not down home and folksy, and his second advice would have been to call upon Jesus Christ.
That any real Christian would have solved any of the contrived problems simply by picking up a Bible or "calling upon the name of Jesus" never occurs to any scriptwriter, though, or so they'd have you believe. I say that it occurs to them, but why would they want any in the audience learning to do that? If they portrayed Christianity as real, and showed the real blessings that flow from it, then people might start attending church!
And they sure can't have that.
So they make it all random magic. Same as the show "Touched by an Angel". Where this time it's Roma Downey who you may call upon in dire need. She's cuter than Jesus. And perkier. And LBGTQ friendly. And not so judgey, unless it's to scold some mean hypocritical church person who was trying to advise standards.
That's Hollywood's favorite misrepresentation of Christianity. That it's "really" about not judging, so if you ever see anyone judging you or anyone you know, then they're not "real" Christians, because "real" Christians don't judge!
Thus when Pastor Meanie McIntolerant looks sadly at a gay couple, we can learn that he must be a hypocrite for thinking that their active and proud homosexuality is a sin. But when Pastor Softie McLovesall risks his job to marry Adam and Steve, he's such a hero, because he knows to never ever judge!
In case some of you were unaware - and Hollywood has done a great job of making too many "Christians" unaware - yeah, you get to judge. "Not judging" is not really a thing. Oh, true, you cannot judge a man's final fate, you cannot arrogate yourself the insights of God, like you can see into a man's heart and know whether he will receive salvation or not!
But you are perfectly capable of, and expected to, judge what is or is not sin. If a man hits you the first time, you are allowed, when seeing his fist coming the second time, to duck. True, that is you judging that he intends to hit you again, but yeah, you get to judge that.
When Druggie McBaddie, age 37, shows up to date your 16 year old daughter, you're allowed to judge that such is inappropriate. When you see someone stealing the collection plate, you may judge that to be theft. And when you see two homosexuals flaunting their homosexuality and seeking to have it validated as a "marriage", you are allowed to judge that as sin.
But Hollywood has trained generations - even of "Christians", even of the elect - to regard any kind of discernment of what is sin and what is not and who is sinning and who is not as a "judging" which is - according to their false teaching - unacceptable.
That's Hollywood's favorite misrepresentation of Christianity. That it's "really" about not judging, so if you ever see anyone judging you or anyone you know, then they're not "real" Christians, because "real" Christians don't judge!
Thus when Pastor Meanie McIntolerant looks sadly at a gay couple, we can learn that he must be a hypocrite for thinking that their active and proud homosexuality is a sin. But when Pastor Softie McLovesall risks his job to marry Adam and Steve, he's such a hero, because he knows to never ever judge!
In case some of you were unaware - and Hollywood has done a great job of making too many "Christians" unaware - yeah, you get to judge. "Not judging" is not really a thing. Oh, true, you cannot judge a man's final fate, you cannot arrogate yourself the insights of God, like you can see into a man's heart and know whether he will receive salvation or not!
But you are perfectly capable of, and expected to, judge what is or is not sin. If a man hits you the first time, you are allowed, when seeing his fist coming the second time, to duck. True, that is you judging that he intends to hit you again, but yeah, you get to judge that.
When Druggie McBaddie, age 37, shows up to date your 16 year old daughter, you're allowed to judge that such is inappropriate. When you see someone stealing the collection plate, you may judge that to be theft. And when you see two homosexuals flaunting their homosexuality and seeking to have it validated as a "marriage", you are allowed to judge that as sin.
But Hollywood has trained generations - even of "Christians", even of the elect - to regard any kind of discernment of what is sin and what is not and who is sinning and who is not as a "judging" which is - according to their false teaching - unacceptable.
Thus is an entire body of philosophic thought, going back more than 2,000 years, reduced - no, not reduced, but changed entirely to - a contest between Light and Dark with the only thing you can do is live nice enough that maybe an angel will notice you and give you a boost. And meanwhile never ever say that anyone else is doing anything bad at all or that anyone ever should change in the least bit.
Examples of how if you are not a follower of "Hollywood Christianity" then you must be a Kool-aid drinking cross burning hate mongering child molesting terroristic bigot abound. "V" shows an Anglican priest as a child molester. "Saved" shows a fornicating minister who's real "sin" is that he won't let two gay kids attend prom. "The Walking Dead" has a minister who's a coward and betrayer and murdered his whole congregation. "Caprica" had the terrorists as those who believe in one God and blow up people, while the good guys were the pagans who worshiped many gods. "The Simpsons" has religion as an organized racket in it for the offering plate money. "The Mist" showed that as soon as the civilization collapses, the Christians will sacrifice children because Christians are mean and hate those who don't think like them. The most recent "Law and Order SVU" episode was where a minister of a church - from the Midwest, of course - had a high school senior rape a high school girl so that she would be cured of lesbianism.
I could bore you with a list ten - one hundred - times longer.
Or the little softball lines inserted in otherwise non-religious shows. "I'm not religious, I'm spiritual", teaching that it's okay to never go to church but that somehow just wandering through life not killing and not being too mean somehow equates to a "relationship" with God, when those who say that wouldn't even know how to define Him. "Too many hypocrites at church", as if that made any more sense than saying, "Too many fatties at the gym."
Examples of how if you are not a follower of "Hollywood Christianity" then you must be a Kool-aid drinking cross burning hate mongering child molesting terroristic bigot abound. "V" shows an Anglican priest as a child molester. "Saved" shows a fornicating minister who's real "sin" is that he won't let two gay kids attend prom. "The Walking Dead" has a minister who's a coward and betrayer and murdered his whole congregation. "Caprica" had the terrorists as those who believe in one God and blow up people, while the good guys were the pagans who worshiped many gods. "The Simpsons" has religion as an organized racket in it for the offering plate money. "The Mist" showed that as soon as the civilization collapses, the Christians will sacrifice children because Christians are mean and hate those who don't think like them. The most recent "Law and Order SVU" episode was where a minister of a church - from the Midwest, of course - had a high school senior rape a high school girl so that she would be cured of lesbianism.
I could bore you with a list ten - one hundred - times longer.
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Or the little softball lines inserted in otherwise non-religious shows. "I'm not religious, I'm spiritual", teaching that it's okay to never go to church but that somehow just wandering through life not killing and not being too mean somehow equates to a "relationship" with God, when those who say that wouldn't even know how to define Him. "Too many hypocrites at church", as if that made any more sense than saying, "Too many fatties at the gym."
This applies to an allegedly religious series like "Left Behind", too. Jesus is massively downplayed. The Rapture was of...not those who accepted Christ, but those who were "good". Or take the quintessential "Christian" themed movie from none other than Stephen King. "The Stand".
Another Good versus Evil, Light versus Dark, where Jesus plays no role at all. Good is represented by Mother Abigail who can do magic, and Dark is represented by Randall Flagg who can do magic. Never mind that the whole thing in real life would have been over as fast as it would take any character to simply pray to Jesus.
Perhaps this is due to Hollywood wanting to have suspense in their movies, but I doubt it. Suspense could be had over whether the characters would accept Jesus fast enough. No, it's propaganda. And if it is not, then it has the trait of being remarkably similar to being propaganda, and having the exact same effect.
It trains up a generation - or two or three generations by now - to know that all one has to be is good. Good and non-hypocritical people get heaven and bad and hypocritical people get hell. In Hollywood Christianity, the only sin is hypocrisy. And the only hypocrisy is to judge anyone for anything at all. So you may be as sinful as you please if you aren't telling others what to do, but if you strive not to sin, encourage others not to, and are found to have fell in any particular, than you are a hypocrite and all you said can be dismissed.
Wonder who that benefits? Hint: Not us. And while they do not know it? Not them, either. Not in the long run!
Hollywood Christianity has an ally - or a product that Hollywood itself aided in creating. It's what most call "Mainstream Christianity" or sometimes "Mainline Christianity". The liberal wishy-washy theology of women ministers and homosexuality being okay and God not being an entity in Heaven but rather the concept of "Love". And Jesus is reduced in this version of Christianity to being a Michael Landon, but one who may not even have done miracles, but was just there to preach about the Love and Peace, man.
A hippie-ish type of Christianity, where he was little more than a social reformer if mentioned at all.
A hippie-ish type of Christianity, where he was little more than a social reformer if mentioned at all.
Liberal Christianity, Left-wing Christianity, Hollywood Christianity - it's all the same kind of thing. A watered down, twisted up version where God and Satan are equal and opposite, where it is being nice that gets you to heaven and even the "bad" - whatever is left to be bad - only gets you...well, they don't preach much on that.
And "bad" is really just not being as Peace and Light and Tolerant as they are. All one has to do to not be "bad" is to accept that no one else is really all that bad! Handy, huh? Judge not - and never fear then being judged! Which is why the cardinal sin in Hollywood/Liberal Christianity is to in any way say that what a person is doing is wrong or sinful!
That is the unpardonable sin for them - to judge a sin as sin! And they will judge you quite quickly for judging, be assured of that!
That is the unpardonable sin for them - to judge a sin as sin! And they will judge you quite quickly for judging, be assured of that!
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