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Religious Right activists just cant seem to get enough of movies about the purported persecution of Christians in America, churning out movies such as Gods Not Dead, Uncommon and Persecuted.
Answers In Genesis, the Young Earth Creationist group behind the Creation Museum, released a trailer yesterday for its very own persecution tale, A Matter of Faith.
The movie appears to center around a father who is upset that his daughters college biology professor isnt giving equal time to biblical Creation as a plausible alternative to evolution. Like in Gods Not Dead in which a student debates an atheist professor played by Kevin Sorbo the worried father ends up debating the biology professor in a fight for his daughters soul. (Because you can't win debates in real life, so you make movies where you win instead. Problem solved.)
AIG has routinely warned members that public schools and universities are leading young people away from Christianity by teaching them the science of evolution. As AIG head Ken Ham argues in his book Already Gone, schools and churches which dont teach biblical accounts like Genesis as literal texts have led young people astray.
http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/new-creationist-movie-latest-religious-right-christian-persecution-film
Maybe there's going to be a scene in the movie where in the end, all of the world's atheists and scientists fall into a giant pot and are cooked alive by the demon formerly known as Charles Darwin.
yeoman6987
(14,449 posts)Let them make the movie. We get our movies too. F-911 and many others. We just won't go see it. Easy solution.
el_bryanto
(11,804 posts)they are creating a subculture in which their beliefs are just confirmed again and again - and they do vote. They do run for school-boards.
Bryant
Proud Liberal Dem
(24,406 posts)We can't get rid of Fox. We can't just rid people of their faulty beliefs. I think that most of us here are more open to hearing dissenting opinions and having a real debate of ideas with people than most people but, let's be honest, we spend our time here on DU and probably don't waste much time (if any) going over to Free Republic just to get "a different point of view", right? I don't tune into Rush Limbaugh or Sean Hannity just to get their "point of view". I might if they were halfway respectful to our opinions and beliefs and were a bit open-minded and willing to have a serious debate about things but they're obviously not nor are they ever going to be. If I'm listening to something about politics, I'd personally rather be listening to something like Daily Kos Kagro in the Morning Show than a right-wing hate radio host. The only radio host in recent years that I've enjoyed that seems to sort of straddle the fence a bit politically is Michael Smerconish but people like him seem far and few between.
The point I'm trying to make is that we all sort of put ourselves in a "bubble" to some degree and mostly spend time listening, reading, watching stuff that reinforces our views.
MO_Moderate
(377 posts)yeoman6987
(14,449 posts)I wouldn't say it was mainstream necessarily. I think the audience was liberal for the most part.
yeoman6987
(14,449 posts)But the solution cannot be to ban making these types of films or else very shortly after they will come after us and they would be valid in doing so.
dawg
(10,624 posts)I must be doing something wrong.
Nye Bevan
(25,406 posts)Beearewhyain
(600 posts)A Darwinian Demon is actually pretty bad assed.