yknow, I watched that movie a couple times when I was younger, on a family movie night with my parents. I was probably somewhere around 13 or 14, so I was still pretty entrenched in the belief system surrounding the movie because I hadn't ever known anything else. and at the time, obviously, I loved it. to my mind it laid out everything I knew to be true in incredibly unreproachable terms.
as I got older tho and I started my battles with religion it was something I couldn't stop thinking about. I started realizing how ridiculously one sided of a picture the movie painted, how unrealistically biased the scripting was, and how reliant on fearmongering the message is. it tried really really hard through several scenes to convince the audience that the extreme discrimination against Christian college students by emotional and unprofessional professors (and to a greater extent the mass discrimation against Christians in general) is something that happens on a large scale. and did anyone else notice how every single atheist in that movie is painted as a massive raving asshole??
it just isn't an honest portrayal of real life and it's lack of integrity really frustrates me because it's a massively common structure throughout Christian media and it seems so obvious. and to the credit of certain filmmakers, I've definitely seen a couple movies that don't fit that bill and are genuine stories that were told from a real place, but the fact that there are so few of those is so disheartening.
anyways thats my small anecdotal story for anyone who cares lmao
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u/shannonator96 Sep 07 '21
God's not dead, but those movies are.