Shocker: Christian-based ‘War Room’ knocks off ‘Straight Outta Compton’

[brinny]

i just ordered a "Do You Believe" DVD!!!

Woooo Hoooooo!!

 

[seekingsolace]

War room, wheres my blood and gore? Darn Christians.

 

[lasthero]

I very much enjoyed God's Not Dead.That was a great film in my opinion. And though I've not been a fan of Kevin Sorbo he was very good as the antagonist in his role.

There must be a new recut of God's Not Dead out, because the character Kevin played in the movie I watched was a terrible, TERRIBLE cliche of an atheist.

 

[lasthero]

I very much enjoyed God's Not Dead.That was a great film in my opinion. And though I've not been a fan of Kevin Sorbo he was very good as the antagonist in his role.

There must be a new recut of God's Not Dead out, because the character Kevin played in the movie I watched was a terrible, TERRIBLE cliche of an atheist.

 

[heatedmonk]

War room, wheres my blood and gore? Darn Christians.

I know, really! A prayer closet! *sings* "PRAYER! What is it good for? Absolutely everything say it again...."

 

[brinny]

War room, wheres my blood and gore? Darn Christians.

LOL!

 

[brinny]

I know, really! A prayer closet! *sings* "PRAYER! What is it good for? Absolutely everything say it again...."

Hahahaaaa!

 

[pat34lee]

I don't think it's that surprising at all that an evangelical-based film would do well in a country that has a large number of evangelicals...I would say that the Passion of the Christ movie was overtly evangelical, and that was a huge financial success.

It isn't just evangelicals or Christians. More people want family friendly movies without the killing, profanity, nudity and political correctness on most of the Hollywood junk today. They can't even come up with new ideas, but remake the same stuff over and over.

 

[ThatRobGuy]

It isn't just evangelicals or Christians. More people want family friendly movies without the killing, profanity, nudity and political correctness on most of the Hollywood junk today. They can't even come up with new ideas, but remake the same stuff over and over.

I don't think "The Passion" would've been family friendly in terms of violence lol

 

[pat34lee]

There must be a new recut of God's Not Dead out, because the character Kevin played in the movie I watched was a terrible, TERRIBLE cliche of an atheist.

So are many real atheists. Dawkins for example.

 

[pat34lee]

I don't think "The Passion" would've been family friendly in terms of violence lol

Point taken. I should have specified needless violence. Sometimes it is necessary.

 

[lasthero]

So are many real atheists. Dawkins for example.

Dawkins isn't like that. No one is. He's a complete strawman.

 

[lasthero]

It isn't just evangelicals or Christians. More people want family friendly movies without the killing, profanity, nudity and political correctness on most of the Hollywood junk today.

The continued success of that Holywood junk would speak against that.

Also Game of Thrones.

 

[ThatRobGuy]

Dawkins isn't like that. No one is. He's a complete strawman.

In terms of being a "cliché Atheist", I can see Dawkins being a bit like that. He has a tendency to do the "I must oppose all religions equally" and "all religion is equally bad" sort of thing, as a opposed to a Sam Harris who acknowledges that there are varying degrees...

If you watch a Dawkins lecture vs. a Harris lecture, it's pretty easy to spot the differences in attitudes.

 

[Hetta]

In terms of being a "cliché Atheist", I can see Dawkins being a bit like that. He has a tendency to do the "I must oppose all religions equally" and "all religion is equally bad" sort of thing, as a opposed to a Sam Harris who acknowledges that there are varying degrees...

If you watch a Dawkins lecture vs. a Harris lecture, it's pretty easy to spot the differences in attitudes.

Why oh why would an atheist see "degrees" in religion?

 

[pat34lee]

The continued success of that Holywood junk would speak against that.

Also Game of Thrones.

Also car wrecks. I tried watching GoT. Lasted no more than ten or fifteen minutes.

 

[lasthero]

In terms of being a "cliché Atheist", I can see Dawkins being a bit like that. He has a tendency to do the "I must oppose all religions equally" and "all religion is equally bad" sort of thing, as a opposed to a Sam Harris who acknowledges that there are varying degrees...

If you watch a Dawkins lecture vs. a Harris lecture, it's pretty easy to spot the differences in attitudes.

There's a difference between being against religion and being the sort of person who's emotionally abusive to his wife, would try to force everyone in his classroom to admit that God doesn't exist under pain of failure, and would waste valuable class time over a pointless debate. I don't agree with everything Dawkin's says, but he's not the two dimensional stereotype in this film.

 

[lasthero]

Also car wrecks. I tried watching GoT. Lasted no more than ten or fifteen minutes.

And yet, it's one of the most popular shows in recent history, despite rampant violence and sexuality.

 

[iluvatar5150]

War room, wheres my blood and gore? Darn Christians.

I'd say the obvious ham-fisted tugging of the heartstrings is pretty gratuitous.

 

[ThatRobGuy]

Why oh why would an atheist see "degrees" in religion?

Who would you feel safer around, ISIS, or an Amish community? If you're answer is not "it's a toss up", then that's an acknowledgement of varying degrees, and the significance of those varying degrees.

While the two men are friends in real life, they differ drastically on that point.

In one of their "4 horsemen of reason" roundtable discussions (they did with Hitchens and Daniel Dennett), when Islamic extremism was brought up, Dawkins made the comment "Well, we have to acknowledge that all religions have extremists", Harris's response was "I think that answer is bull****, not all religions have the same levels of extremists...our president doesn't lay awake at night worrying about what the Amish might do".

 

[Hetta]

Who would you feel safer around, ISIS, or an Amish community? If you're answer is not "it's a toss up", then that's an acknowledgement of varying degrees, and the significance of those varying degrees.

But "ISIS" isn't a community, is it? And it doesn't exist in Europe or the US as a community. So if you're asking whether I'd feel safer around a Muslim or Amish community, I really couldn't choose.