no, that's the NSA
― flesh, the devil, and a wolf (wolf) (amateurist), Wednesday, 27 November 2013 22:06 (ten years ago) link
god hates pirates.
― lollercoaster of rove (s.clover), Wednesday, 27 November 2013 22:09 (ten years ago) link
http://www.patheos.com/blogs/christandpopculture/2013/10/gods-not-dead-but-this-trope-is/
There's even a Chick tract!
http://www.chick.com/m/reading/tracts/readtract.asp?stk=0055
http://media.chick.com/tractimages67491/0055/0055_04.gif
http://media.chick.com/tractimages67491/0055/0055_05.gif
― An Android Pug of Some Kind? (kingfish), Wednesday, 27 November 2013 22:28 (ten years ago) link
Tract kinda has the opposite effect of what it intends. Typical Chick.
― Lesbian has fucking riffs for days (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 27 November 2013 23:33 (ten years ago) link
"What If?" might be crazier. What about his poor fiancee?
― Matt Armstrong, Wednesday, 27 November 2013 23:55 (ten years ago) link
i love how jack chick sets up these ridiculous straw men, and then uses footnotes to correct them.
― flesh, the devil, and a wolf (wolf) (amateurist), Thursday, 28 November 2013 03:44 (ten years ago) link
his stuff appeals to people who participate in that Meet Me at the Flagpole shit at schools
― Lesbian has fucking riffs for days (Neanderthal), Thursday, 28 November 2013 03:50 (ten years ago) link
does jack chick's work appeal to all that many people un-ironically?
don't answer that
― flesh, the devil, and a wolf (wolf) (amateurist), Thursday, 28 November 2013 08:51 (ten years ago) link
Chick is a joke for kids. There's much more interesting stuff out there like here:
http://www.apologetics.org/
― Noodle of the Vague family (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 28 November 2013 08:57 (ten years ago) link
the Apologetics movement seems to me a bit like 'missing the point', but I still find it adorable that they try so hard
― Lesbian has fucking riffs for days (Neanderthal), Thursday, 28 November 2013 16:00 (ten years ago) link
i couldn't make heads or tails of that website
― flesh, the devil, and a wolf (wolf) (amateurist), Saturday, 30 November 2013 06:16 (ten years ago) link
it seems to me that all metaphysics is built on sad but some of the Christian apologetics guys build great big huge elaborate skyscrapers on sand
― Noodle of the Vague family (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 30 November 2013 10:21 (ten years ago) link
built on sand i meant but i guess that was a serendipitous typo
ty nv, seems quite interesting at first glance
― veneer timber (imago), Saturday, 30 November 2013 12:58 (ten years ago) link
"all metaphysics is built on sad" is beautiful
― flesh, the devil, and a wolf (wolf) (amateurist), Monday, 2 December 2013 03:28 (ten years ago) link
"God's Not Dead" continues to surprise at the box office. The Freestyle Releasing film about one Christian college student's quest to defend his faith grossed an additional $7.7 million with 580 more theaters added to its release. Now in its third weekend in theaters, the film from director Harold Cronk stands with an impressive $33 million to its name.
― polyphonic, Monday, 7 April 2014 17:15 (ten years ago) link
director Harold Cronk
― bizarro gazzara, Monday, 7 April 2014 17:20 (ten years ago) link
new display name there for the taking
I can't wait to see this.
― Eric H., Monday, 7 April 2014 17:21 (ten years ago) link
Heaven Is For Real will cut this movie's B.O. success story down in a week and a half.
OK, then.
― Cronk's Not Cronk (Eric H.), Monday, 7 April 2014 17:25 (ten years ago) link
prefer Solaris
― MV, Monday, 7 April 2014 17:33 (ten years ago) link
when the philosophy prof quotes shakespeare like an angry credo
― Now I Am Become Dracula (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Monday, 7 April 2014 17:52 (ten years ago) link
Saw Under the Skin tonight and saw ppl leaving this movie and they looked exactly what i woulda expected.
It was one of three Bible-thump movies in the cinema.
― getting strange ass all around the globe (Neanderthal), Sunday, 20 April 2014 02:23 (ten years ago) link
colton burpo #3 movie this weekend
― balls, Sunday, 20 April 2014 02:39 (ten years ago) link
how did this presumably ridiculous movie that i assumed would be nothing but a source of in-jokes become an actual success?
― Merdeyeux, Sunday, 20 April 2014 02:43 (ten years ago) link
They should hand out Burpo kooshes at HIFR
― getting strange ass all around the globe (Neanderthal), Sunday, 20 April 2014 02:52 (ten years ago) link
What's the proportion of people who've paid to see this movie ironically?
― art, Sunday, 20 April 2014 03:04 (ten years ago) link
don't pay money for this movie, seriously folks. if you have to go for the yuks, then sneak in.
how did this presumably ridiculous movie that i assumed would be nothing but a source of in-jokes become an actual success?― Merdeyeux, Saturday, April 19, 2014 9:43 PM (20 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― Merdeyeux, Saturday, April 19, 2014 9:43 PM (20 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
christians--they are everywhere
― espring (amateurist), Sunday, 20 April 2014 03:07 (ten years ago) link
the success of this film is one of those depressing reminders that i share this country with millions upon millions of bigoted, willfully ignorant nutcases
― espring (amateurist), Sunday, 20 April 2014 03:08 (ten years ago) link
We need a series of GG Allin biopics to bring some equilibrium
― getting strange ass all around the globe (Neanderthal), Sunday, 20 April 2014 03:10 (ten years ago) link
aleister crowley biopic IIRC
― espring (amateurist), Sunday, 20 April 2014 03:14 (ten years ago) link
This shit used to be straight to vhs/dvd fodder :(
― getting strange ass all around the globe (Neanderthal), Sunday, 20 April 2014 03:15 (ten years ago) link
in some ways it's a symptom of the growth of mega-multiplexes—they need stuff to fill all those screens.
the weird thing is, these films aren't even fundie-lite like the "son of god" thing ("Jesus was a very nice man who could do magic"). these are fairly hard core "Xians are being persecuted by the godless elite!" stories—or at least "god's not dead" is.
well not as hard core as this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k5o_LwqX77I
― espring (amateurist), Sunday, 20 April 2014 03:20 (ten years ago) link
1/2 of that film is really gory violence like communist thuggos decapitating people or sending a spike through a kid's ear etc.
― espring (amateurist), Sunday, 20 April 2014 03:21 (ten years ago) link
― getting strange ass all around the globe (Neanderthal), Saturday, April 19, 2014 10:15 PM (5 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
actually i think the building blocks of the current success were things like screenings in churches, churches renting out single screens, etc.
― espring (amateurist), Sunday, 20 April 2014 03:22 (ten years ago) link
nah it got limited releases and would spread by word of mouth in smaller markets (there's a similar model now w/ certain movies targeted to the hispanic audience). it's just now fundie flicks have the distribution and marketing muscle and competence of real studios behind it. the audience was always there. it's similar to how every few years hollywood will remember that black ppl exist and go to the movies.
― balls, Sunday, 20 April 2014 03:27 (ten years ago) link
Ave Sathanas
― getting strange ass all around the globe (Neanderthal), Sunday, 20 April 2014 03:28 (ten years ago) link
nah it got limited releases and would spread by word of mouth in smaller markets
yes, but before that there was a bible-belt circuit for christian movies, consisting of churches, community centers, rented-out high school auditoriums, etc.
― espring (amateurist), Sunday, 20 April 2014 05:15 (ten years ago) link
o yeah ron ormond, etc
― balls, Sunday, 20 April 2014 05:29 (ten years ago) link
Frailty increased the number of believers iirc
― getting strange ass all around the globe (Neanderthal), Sunday, 20 April 2014 07:02 (ten years ago) link
Kind of amazed that this movie appeals to anyone, really. The premise is beyond ridiculous.
― ▴▲ ▴TH3CR()$BY$H()W▴▲ ▴ (Adam Bruneau), Sunday, 20 April 2014 16:06 (ten years ago) link
fairly sure if this came out when I was in high school, it would have been a youth group field trip to see this movie. Fundies eat this kinda faux-persecution bullshit up like hotcakes. Most liberal Christians, on the other hand, are embarrassed by movies of this ilk. On the other hand, the reason Heaven is For Real (ugh) is doing well with critics is apparently it has distanced itself from the blatant hammer-to-the-face propaganda stylings of films in this genre (I can't speak to the validity of those claims obv).
It was amusing - a similar film, Last Ounce of Courage, came out last year to really terrible reviews. And this one Christian movie critic, of the more liberal variety, wrote an extremely critical review of it on her blog, calling it "bigoted", "mean-spirited", as well as questioning its motives. Her comments section filled up with angry fundies attacking her, one of them calling her a "bigoted liberal"!
― getting strange ass all around the globe (Neanderthal), Sunday, 20 April 2014 16:13 (ten years ago) link
― ▴▲ ▴TH3CR()$BY$H()W▴▲ ▴ (Adam Bruneau), Sunday, April 20, 2014 11:06 AM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
yeah but it's the same premise as one of the most popular email "memes" w/in the evangelical milieu
― espring (amateurist), Sunday, 20 April 2014 17:53 (ten years ago) link
yeah every negative review of one of these xian films on variety, film international, wherever automatically gets a million comments from fundies screaming that the author is just one of the hollywood liberal mafia.
there's usually one or two poor souls who actually try to explain that thinking a movie about christlove is bad doesn't mean that the same person thinks jesus is bad.
fundies not down with critical thinking, news at 11.
― espring (amateurist), Sunday, 20 April 2014 17:55 (ten years ago) link
Well what Jesus said/did and what fundies do in his name are more or less complete opposite ends of the spectrum as far as I'm concerned. If this was really a movie about Christlove it would be all about helping poor people, healing the sick, and casting out money lenders. Not two idiots having a pride-off.
― ▴▲ ▴TH3CR()$BY$H()W▴▲ ▴ (Adam Bruneau), Sunday, 20 April 2014 18:29 (ten years ago) link
I'm waiting for the Cliven Bundy movie to come out, it will probably have the same fanbase
― getting strange ass all around the globe (Neanderthal), Sunday, 20 April 2014 18:32 (ten years ago) link
Bad review = "I told you so."
― Try Leuchars More! (dowd), Sunday, 20 April 2014 18:35 (ten years ago) link
yeah the movie Last Ounce of Courage was about a bunch of 'courageous' Christians standing up for the 'real meaning of Christmas' when evil Atheists stop city hall from displaying a manger, and how in the end they bully the town into ignoring sep of church and state and get their way.
I saw some of it but the unintentional LOLs faded quick when I realized how much sway some of these people hold IRL
― getting strange ass all around the globe (Neanderthal), Sunday, 20 April 2014 18:41 (ten years ago) link
I remember when I was a Fundie, we had these green workbooks (I forget what they were called), and one of them had a sad story about how a science teacher had the audacity to teach Evolution, and how little Billy raised his hand and stammered "b-b-but I believe in Jesus and the Resurrection" and the teacher of course replies "Well I'm sorry, Billy, but Evolution is a scientific fact!", concluding with a summary of how this is proof persecution against Christians still occurs.
The workbook also said "Evolution is ridiculous! If you saw a car in a garbage dump, would you assume it had evolved from the materials around it?"
― getting strange ass all around the globe (Neanderthal), Sunday, 20 April 2014 18:43 (ten years ago) link
That's why they got Hercules to do it.
― jmm, Monday, 6 November 2017 15:38 (six years ago) link
seems like a real asshole move to put a giant author pic on the front of your book about aborting god, even dawkins would think tw-
http://cdn.pastemagazine.com/www/articles/DawkinsProper.jpg
oh
― What's the range of an Iranian frogman dipshit? (bizarro gazzara), Monday, 6 November 2017 16:14 (six years ago) link
just had an idea for a sequel where Dorks and the Fundies have to team up to take on the real enemy...J K Rowling
― Pope Urban the Legend (Noodle Vague), Monday, 6 November 2017 16:42 (six years ago) link
saw the trailer for the newest entry in theatres.
there's actually explosions and violence in it or something
― fuck the NRA (Neanderthal), Monday, 5 March 2018 22:48 (six years ago) link
omg there's a FIFTH movie in this series coming out this year, apparently
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/God's_Not_Dead_(film_series)
Directed by Harold Cronk, the premise will follow Reverend David "Dave" Hill as he runs for office in a campaign against an opponent that seeks to remove religion from public policy; and the Reverend begins to question: "Is God dead in American politics?".
thinking of actively disrupting every showing of this movie at my local theatre.
― Cthulhu Diamond Phillips (Neanderthal), Monday, 1 May 2023 15:56 (one year ago) link
Harold Cronk
― Every post of mine is an expression of eternity (Boring, Maryland), Monday, 1 May 2023 16:44 (one year ago) link
Cronk returns!
― fair but so uncool beliefs here (Eric H.), Monday, 1 May 2023 16:46 (one year ago) link
Is Kevin Sorbo dead?
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Monday, 1 May 2023 16:50 (one year ago) link
I’d say that is just going to be like the Police Academy movies, where they’ll keep making them as long as the returns are greater than the costs, but these guys are doing an ideological project and getting funding from billionaires, so they don’t really need to rely on box office and licensing success.
So we’re probably going to get more of these than we got of cheap o Land Before Time sequels
― Glower, Disruption & Pies (kingfish), Monday, 1 May 2023 16:52 (one year ago) link
The Land Before God
― Cthulhu Diamond Phillips (Neanderthal), Monday, 1 May 2023 16:55 (one year ago) link
Love offerings from billionaires
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Monday, 1 May 2023 16:56 (one year ago) link
Going to replace this film canister with Wicker Man brb
― Cthulhu Diamond Phillips (Neanderthal), Monday, 1 May 2023 16:59 (one year ago) link
The teacher named Professor Radisson, begins the class by having each student sign a document that denies the existence of God.
Man, philosophy class was the best
― jmm, Monday, 1 May 2023 17:12 (one year ago) link
my Classics course made us crucify a classmate
― Cthulhu Diamond Phillips (Neanderthal), Monday, 1 May 2023 21:42 (one year ago) link
weirdly he was ok with it
God's Not Dead: Rise Up (2023)
#onethread
― Kim Kimberly, Tuesday, 2 May 2023 00:06 (one year ago) link
― Cthulhu Diamond Phillips (Neanderthal)
i use she/her pronouns now, but yeah, it was fun.
― Kate (rushomancy), Tuesday, 2 May 2023 00:11 (one year ago) link
My (tortured Catholic) photography professor just showed us prints of him naked on a cross. Sounds like the philosophy class was more fun.
― papal hotwife (milo z), Tuesday, 2 May 2023 00:16 (one year ago) link
― papal hotwife (milo z)
i love that the word "tortured" is twice-redundant in this sentence (with "Catholic" and with "naked on a cross").
― Kate (rushomancy), Tuesday, 2 May 2023 17:53 (one year ago) link
other director in this series is named Vance Null.
― JoeStork, Wednesday, 3 May 2023 05:22 (one year ago) link
why do all Christian directors have names that sound like producers of second rate Abbott and Costello knockoffs
― Cthulhu Diamond Phillips (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 3 May 2023 05:24 (one year ago) link
Vance Null sounds like an Alan Smithee alternate
― jmm, Wednesday, 3 May 2023 12:11 (one year ago) link
Vance Null should be the singer in a bluegrass motley crue cover band
― joygoat, Wednesday, 3 May 2023 18:46 (one year ago) link
vance nullo
― Kate (rushomancy), Wednesday, 3 May 2023 18:51 (one year ago) link
xxp Definitely sounds like someone who doesn't want her/his real name associated with the project.
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Wednesday, 3 May 2023 18:52 (one year ago) link
Vance Null is known for God's Not Dead (2014), Samson (2018) and Tekken: Kazuya's Revenge (2014).
apparently "kazuya's revenge" does not live up to the standard fans of the first Tekken movie were expecting
to me that's impressive, that you take people who are like "look i loved the first tekken film but this is just crap, a real wrong turn for the tekken franchise"
― Kate (rushomancy), Wednesday, 3 May 2023 18:56 (one year ago) link
when you've lost Manly Movie (re: Tekken sequel):
Manly Movie gave the film a score of 3 out of 10, commenting that:
"It's like the producers and writers have no idea who these characters are, and had no intention of giving a crap, but were advised that certain actors were free for a cameo – use them".
― Maxmillion D. Boosted (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Wednesday, 3 May 2023 18:59 (one year ago) link