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The Far Left is screaming "This movie is a Q-ANON conspiracy flick!" I'm thinking, well, if the Marxists are angry about this movie, it must be touching a nerve. Still have yet to see it.....
 
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The A/C went off in the theater I was watching it in about half way through the movie.

The media has known about it:



Thank you so much for sharing that video. Heartbreaking, but important info that I knew was accurate and Tim was not some conspiracy theorist. It's the description those in power give to anyone they want to discredit and smear.
 
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I have seen it - and I think every church in America should be promoting it, and supporting the fight against child trafficking.

This to me would be, Faith working, thru love.
 
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How the world works...that it takes to have to make a movie to bring awareness to this horrific act of child trafficking.
I’m from South America and when I was a kid..I had a friend (7yrs of age) disappeared...vanished. The adults talked about it. “Not much one can do” I was told. How this is considered the norm and its being called false advertisement. God will be the One and only who can forgive everyone involved.
 
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There was that documentary in the 1990's called Conspiracy of Silence produced by the Discovery Channel.

Congress threatened disastrous legislation if it be broadcast. Someone bought out the film as it was being finished and it was buried. Some of the people interviewed testified before Congress in regard to what happened to them, but were pressured to recant. Some spent more than a decade in prison rather than recant.

A VHS of the an old draft version was sent to a congressman a decade later. This is it;
 
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True. I will say I've been against sex scenes in movies since my teens. Also violence and bad words. In any case, I am guilty as well, which is why all the darkness is around us. All of our sins. The elders that have been telling us to repent for the past few years, especially during covid, I tried to do so. I don't know about anybody else, but I struggle in this world, praying every day not to get swept up into the sea of apostasy.
The Hayes Code protected us better than we knew.
 
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This movie came out July 4. It's based on a true story of one piece of Tim Ballard's work hunting down sex traffickers and the like and capturing/arresting them, after he'd been working for at least a decade with the Department of Homeland Security.


I haven't seen it because I can't handle the subject matter. It's too upsetting for me, but I think it's important to have this out. As they say, shine a light on the darkness. Somehow find a way to help these children.

What is also disturbing and horrible is the main stream magazines and news slamming on this story, saying it was made up, says Jim Caviezel and Tim Ballard are QAnon, conspiracy theorists. No matter that it's a true story. I don't know if you all have ever listened to Jim Caviezel speak, whether as a guest speaker on important matters of God and Christianity (albeit from a Catholic perspective, but still), and his deep faith. There's no doubt he's a devout Christian.

In any case, I was wondering what you all thought and has anybody seen this movie yet? Thanks in advance.
The movie was crowd funded and produce by Angel Studios the same Studio that made the Chosen which was also crowd funded. They are doing some great work in getting this independent material out there. I think its a new way of producing films that the mainstream media don't like as it bypasses the usual way of doing things which is controlled by the Hollywood power brokers.

Whether or not its a conspiracy theory its interesting that mainstream media don't want to talk about the issues highlighted such as child sex trafficking. I would have thought regardless of agenda it would be an opportunity to discuss and investigate this important issue.

Afterall the Woke media are all about the oppressed minorities and injustices. Sex exploitation of children seems to meet all the requirements. Considering they are so loud on other issues the silence is deafening.

I can't help wonder if this issue has more to it than what most people know. I keep referring to other scandels in the past which were taboo like sex abuse in the church and the recent Epstein and Winestein cases that exposed the coverup of abuses. Is this another situation like this.

When you consider the rise of internet pornography, that child pornography and pedophelia are increasing maybe this is where society is heading though it seems hard to imagine and even think about.

But a point made by Jim Caviezel made me think when he said with the displacement and upheaval in many developing nations where kids can be volnurable around 85,000 children have gone missing. At the same time 1,000s of new child pornography has come on line.

We know that Epstein was involved with arranging underage girls for exclusive clients and I wonder if there is more to this that people are preventing from coming out. Its like bits of a jigsaw puzzle coming out in evidence and there is some force trying to put road blocks along the way to prevent people joining the dots.

I mean there is deafening silence across the board when it comes to this movie content. There has been no arrests of Epsteins clients at all, no updates nothing. We heard from Hollywood child actors and how they said there was some powerful people behind child exploitation in Hollywood but still nothing has happened. Now this movies reaction and the refusal to talk about the issue.

Maybe it is all a conspiracy, but then maybe its something so big that it maybe expose systematic abuses worse than we have ever seen before.
 
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The movie was crowd funded and produce by Angel Studios the same Studio that made the Chosen which was also crowd funded. They are doing some great work in getting this independent material out there. I think its a new way of producing films that the mainstream media don't like as it bypasses the usual way of doing things which is controlled by the Hollywood power brokers.

Whether or not its a conspiracy theory its interesting that mainstream media don't want to talk about the issues highlighted such as child sex trafficking. I would have thought regardless of agenda it would be an opportunity to discuss and investigate this important issue.

Afterall the Woke media are all about the oppressed minorities and injustices. Sex exploitation of children seems to meet all the requirements. Considering they are so loud on other issues the silence is deafening.

I can't help wonder if this issue has more to it than what most people know. I keep referring to other scandels in the past which were taboo like sex abuse in the church and the recent Epstein and Winestein cases that exposed the coverup of abuses. Is this another situation like this.

When you consider the rise of internet inappropriate contentography, that child inappropriate contentography and pedophelia are increasing maybe this is where society is heading though it seems hard to imagine and even think about.

But a point made by Jim Caviezel made me think when he said with the displacement and upheaval in many developing nations where kids can be volnurable around 85,000 children have gone missing. At the same time 1,000s of new child inappropriate contentography has come on line.

We know that Epstein was involved with arranging underage girls for exclusive clients and I wonder if there is more to this that people are preventing from coming out. Its like bits of a jigsaw puzzle coming out in evidence and there is some force trying to put road blocks along the way to prevent people joining the dots.

I mean there is deafening silence across the board when it comes to this movie content. There has been no arrests of Epsteins clients at all, no updates nothing. We heard from Hollywood child actors and how they said there was some powerful people behind child exploitation in Hollywood but still nothing has happened. Now this movies reaction and the refusal to talk about the issue.

Maybe it is all a conspiracy, but then maybe its something so big that it maybe expose systematic abuses worse than we have ever seen before.
I tend to believe this is just the tip of the iceberg.
 
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You are correct - it's not conspiracy - it is so big and goes all the way to the top of many high places.

Why would the media ignore such a huge story - and it's a negative one, they love negative stuff. Why would the government, and even many big churches just ignore it??? Draw your own conclusions.
 
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You are correct - it's not conspiracy - it is so big and goes all the way to the top of many high places.

Why would the media ignore such a huge story - and it's a negative one, they love negative stuff. Why would the government, and even many big churches just ignore it??? Draw your own conclusions.
“Conspiracy” doesn’t mean “falsehood”. It refers to people, generally of wealth and power, seeking to expand that wealth and power at the expense of the common people. The whole question of any claim of conspiracy, or as is commonly said, “conspiracy theory”, is whether the claim is true or false. If true, then it is not a theory, but a fact. If false, it is not a theory, but a lie. That’s why I never use the modrn term, which is meant to cast claims of conspiracy as ipso facto insane, without further serious examination.

As to why the media ignore such stories, I have drawn a conclusion. It is that the media have been purchased by the people conducting these conspiracies. The ultimate owners, hidden behind parent company after parent company in a complex web of deceit, have effectively purchased all of the traditional, “legacy” media and enough of the politicians that they need to have controlling stakes in the various major countries. that is why we need to revoke the licenses of the media, completely replace our governments, with solid term limits for everybody. Professional politicians have become professional receivers of bribes from lobbyists who work for these plutocrats, a word which means people who rule by their vast wealth. The politicians now represent them, and not their constituents. That is why elections have become so futile and don’t result in change that benefits ordinary people, and why leftist woke ideology has been imposed everywhere, from school boards to state officials, top-down, against the wishes of the grass roots.
 
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“Conspiracy” doesn’t mean “falsehood”. It refers to people, generally of wealth and power, seeking to expand that wealth and power at the expense of the common people. The whole question of any claim of conspiracy, or as is commonly said, “conspiracy theory”, is whether the claim is true or false. If true, then it is not a theory, but a fact. If false, it is not a theory, but a lie. That’s why I never use the modrn term, which is meant to cast claims of conspiracy as ipso facto insane, without further serious examination.

As to why the media ignore such stories, I have drawn a conclusion. It is that the media have been purchased by the people conducting these conspiracies. The ultimate owners, hidden behind parent company after parent company in a complex web of deceit, have effectively purchased all of the traditional, “legacy” media and enough of the politicians that they need to have controlling stakes in the various major countries. that is why we need to revoke the licenses of the media, completely replace our governments, with solid term limits for everybody. Professional politicians have become professional receivers of bribes from lobbyists who work for these plutocrats, a word which means people who rule by their vast wealth. The politicians now represent them, and not their constituents. That is why elections have become so futile and don’t result in change that benefits ordinary people, and why leftist woke ideology has been imposed everywhere, from school boards to state officials, top-down, against the wishes of the grass roots.

Yup! Very well put.
 
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It was well done as far as movies go. But I found that I had noticed something so subtle going on with the culture in response to the film that I doubted that many others would even notice, so I shared my concern with someone in my men's discussion group and ended up being attacked, basically, for having anti Western Christian attitudes by the Roman catholic member of the group. I'll admit my general belief that Roman innovations were brought about by the spirit of antichrist, and much of what came after in the West is also the work of that spirit. It will be so hard to tell good from evil in the last days.

I'm not sufficiently endowed with Grace to see what's happening with this myself. But I have this strange sense that things really aren't as the appear.
 
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It was well done as far as movies go. But I found that I had noticed something so subtle going on with the culture in response to the film that I doubted that many others would even notice, so I shared my concern with someone in my men's discussion group and ended up being attacked, basically, for having anti Western Christian attitudes by the Roman catholic member of the group. I'll admit my general belief that Roman innovations were brought about by the spirit of antichrist, and much of what came after in the West is also the work of that spirit. It will be so hard to tell good from evil in the last days.

I'm not sufficiently endowed with Grace to see what's happening with this myself. But I have this strange sense that things really aren't as the appear.

I haven't seen the film and likely won't, but I get that same kind of sense. It would probably be good to talk more in depth about the sense.

I don't think anyone has said the true thing about this film or the culture's response.
 
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It was well done as far as movies go. But I found that I had noticed something so subtle going on with the culture in response to the film that I doubted that many others would even notice, so I shared my concern with someone in my men's discussion group and ended up being attacked, basically, for having anti Western Christian attitudes by the Roman catholic member of the group. I'll admit my general belief that Roman innovations were brought about by the spirit of antichrist, and much of what came after in the West is also the work of that spirit. It will be so hard to tell good from evil in the last days.

I'm not sufficiently endowed with Grace to see what's happening with this myself. But I have this strange sense that things really aren't as the appear.
interesting take, thanks! I am planning on seeing it at some point.
 
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Cultural response? Catholics? Can someone clue in poor Gurney here?
Sorry I couldn't elaborate. I'm afraid of it opening up a debate for which I probably don't have a stomach at present. A clue I'll drop is the term "Christian ecumenism", as addressed in a section of G.M Davis, PHD book "Antichrist:The Fulfillment of Globalism", which speaks about the globalization of religion and the overall absence of an Orthodox spiritual worldview among Christians of all stripes.
 
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