The Ten Most Anti-Christian Movies of All Time

[onager]

What say you?

http://nymag.com/daily/entertainment/2007/12/list_antireligious_movies.html

[sasquatch]

1. I actually loved Magdeline Sisters

Great movie.

[RebelOne]

32. I loved it, too. But it made me very angry. n/t

[Hand]

2. Great movies all! nt

[Hand]

4. Whoops--self delete

[Ian David]

3. ANTI-Christian? I'd say some of those are just DIFFERENTLY Christian. Geesh! In any case...

now I know what movies I will pick for a film festival at my house next Christmas!

[knitter4democracy]

23. I agree. I can't understand why they didn't like those.

If we Christians can't handle criticism, our faith is worthless. Personally, Dogma is at the top of my all-time faves list.

[Nostradammit]

5. This is one stupid article

"The Magdalene Sisters" is anti-oppression and anti-Catholic church abuse, but I'd hardly say it's "anti-Christian."

I could go on, but this article is pathetic.

[TexasBushwhacker]

16. Why not The Godfather?

I mean seriously, you have a story about a family that's deeply religious, yet are viscious killers. Why isn't it considered "anti-Catholic"?

[Nostradammit]

20. Not to mention the story is f*cking true!

The movie did not exaggerate the abuse suffered by the girls in the laundries, but it did a great job of showing what happens when religion goes off the rails.

True Christians would never have taken part in the atrocity.

[Bad Thoughts]

6. Not impressed

Great list of movies, many that I love, but some selections cannot be called 'anti-Christian' in the broader sense. Critical of Christian institutions, yes, but not of Christianity itself. Several of the films even seek some balance, like Name of the Rose; Eco, himself, admits that Christian practices continue to inform him even though he no longer belongs to the RCC.

[Ian David]

7. Wouldn't it be fun to do a mash-up of John Lithgow in Footloose and The Day After?

Where all of his fire and brimstone doom-saying about the evils of dancing come to fruition in nuclear horror?

[FtWayneBlue]

8. Zeitgeist the movie

watch it online if you want:

www.zeitgeistmovie.com/

[alphafemale]

9. Footloose....WTF?

And I certainly didn't see Lithgow as a religious tyrant in that movie. He was just a man overwhelmed by grief. His daughter (Lori Singer) was overwhelmed by grief too. But she was acting it out with extreme behavior and risk taking to the point of nearly of a deathwish.

I think small town life and "decent church-goin'" folk ultimately fare pretty well in that movie.

Anyway. I will be visiting my netflix Q soon. Thanx.

[jgraz]

10. My first reaction?

We really need some better anti-christian movies.

[alphafemale]

11. I'm reall surpised "Last Temptation of Christ" didn't make the cut.

There was quite the Brouhaha when that came out.

I went to see it BECAUSE there was a picket line.

[TexasBushwhacker]

15. The thing that amazed me about the protesters ....

was that they were all upset about the scene where Jesus thinks/dreams about what it would be like to be a regular man, marry Mary Magdelene and have a child. The thing that was the most shocking to me was the scene where he was helping make the crosses for the crucifixions and helping nail the condemned men to them. Supposedly he was a carpenter, but I don't think this was in the Bible. Oddly enough, I'm not a Christian, but I still found the movie quite moving.

[alphafemale]

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He ends up rejecting the "Temptation" of having a long, normal, loving family life. He chooses the sacrifice of being crucified.

I'm not an atypical "Christian" either. But if he did exist he was also a human. He would have had the same longings, desires and fears that any of us have.

And what a burden to carry. "You want me to do what? Because of what? And if I fail all of humanity is damned? mmmkay."

[trotsky]

25. Another perspective.

And what a burden to carry. "You want me to do what? Because of what? And if I fail all of humanity is damned? mmmkay."

A burden to carry? You're leaving off the other half of the deal.

"You want me to do what? Because of what? Oh, but I get to come back in 3 days and then live for eternity in heaven? Alrighty then."

That's more like it. Not so much of a burden if you absolutely know you get eternal bliss in the end, is it?

[NMMNG]

12. Anti-Christian?

Apparently anything that portrays one or more Christians in anything but the most positive light is inherently "anti-Christian". Funny how they don't see any of the thousands of movies where Christians are portrayed as good and others are backward/misguided/unwholesome/lost/just-plain-evil as anti-non-Christian.

[cosmik debris]

13. I was happy to see my favorite on the list.

The Meaning Of Life is my favorite of all time!

[Hand]

14. Obviously never saw Bunuel's "The Milky Way".

The first of what Luis Buñuel later proclaimed a trilogy (along with The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie and The Phantom of Liberty) about "the search for truth," The Milky Way (La voie lactee) daringly deconstructs contemporary and traditional views on Catholicism with ribald, rambunctious surreality. Two French beggars, present-day pilgrims en route to Spain's holy city of Santiago de Compostela, serve as Buñuel's narrators for an anticlerical history of heresy, told with absurdity and filled with images that rank among Buñuel's most memorable (stigmatic children, crucified nuns) and hilarious (Jesus considering a good shave). A diabolically entertaining look at the mysteries of fanaticism, The Milky Way remains a hotly debated work from cinema's greatest skeptic.

One of Bunuel's greatest later works, IMHO. :applause:

[Lydia Leftcoast]

18. That's just silly

Priest is not anti-Christian, far from it, as anyone who has actually seen the movie knows.

I saw Dogma after it was recommended by the rector of my church in Portland.

Jesus Camp is about the indoctrination of children by one very scary sect.

The Magdalen Sisters and The Boys of St. Vincent expose abuses that actually happened.

This whole article is so silly that I had to look and make sure that Michael Medved hadn't written it.

[frogmarch]

19. "The Magdalene Laundries" is a song, not a movie, but

it's borderline anti-Catholic, anyway, I suppose.

Here's a rendition of this Joni Mitchell song performed by Christy Moore:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nw4gcbjHcSw

There's also a great rendition on one of The Chieftains albums. Edit: It's sung by Joni Mitchell and is on The Chieftains "Tears of Stone" album.

"...those bloodless brides of Jesus..." (the Magdalene nuns. Wow.)

[and-justice-for-all]

21. Not films I would call Anti-xtian...

Jesus Camp was religious truth and not anti-xtian, those folks are really that crazy. That is what I would call a form of child abuse too.

FOOTLOOSE is not anti-xtian, going against the establishment yes. But it was not anti-xtian. CARRIE's mother was a lot of overly religious people are, some are as possessed with religion as CARRIE was with revenge.

'LIFE OF BRIAN' anyone?

[EvilAL]

22. "Alright, I am the messiah

Now... Fuck off!!"

"How shall we fuck off O Lord?"

[TexasBushwhacker]

30. What about The Ruling Class? n/t

[arKansasJHawk]

24. Missed one ...

Agree with those who question the vast majority of movies on the list. I was surprised to see that one of my favorite movies, "The Rapture," wasn't on the list. It's one of the most devastatingly anti-Christian movies I've ever seen. And the brilliance is, you don't realize it's anti-Christian until the final, amazing, shocking scene.

[TexasBushwhacker]

31. Hmmmm .... I don't know if I would call it anti-Christian

It came out in 1991, then the first "Left Behind" book came out in 1995. I just looked at it as a "what if" the Bible was absolutely, literally true. It definitely presents religion as a two-edged sword. Oddly enough, the star, Mimi Rogers, is a Scientologist!

[frogmarch]

26. Not a movie, but "Father Ted"

was a good BBC sitcom that poked fun at the Catholic Church. (I recently bought the complete series on DVD.)

[ozone_man]

27. The Wicker Man (1973)

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0070917/

Try to get in the director's cut if you can.

[Withywindle]

28. The Passion of the Christ

It's hard to imagine anything that could be more of a turn-off to the religion. :puke:

[sakabatou]

29. Not anti-Christian. Anti-Fundamentalist*

*ie. People who take the bible as 100% literally true.