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Religious MoviesCopyright © 1999-2018, NZ Cult List (Cults.co.nz)
Battlefield Earth. 1999. Scientology-based sci-fi movie, universally slated by critics (ie, they all said it was horrible). Contains references to Scientology theology, while being supposedly just L Ron Hubbard's science fiction. (Hardly surprising, since a lot of Scientology writing is very similar to science fiction.) Courageous. 2011. The Da Vinci Code. 2006. Based
on the fictional novel by Daniel Brown (aka Dan Brown). Interestingly,
while the book has been extremely popular, the movie (directed by Ron
Howard) has failed to impress movie reviewers. Christianity Today
put it this way: "Despite its inaccuracies, the book was a page-turner,
but the movie's a 11/2 star yawner." They
have End of the Spear. 2005. Fireproof. 2008. God's Army. 2000. Funded by the Mormons cult. Hacksaw Ridge. 2016. Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone/Sorcerer's Stone. 2001. A very popular pro-occult movie. Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets. 2002. A very popular pro-occult movie, sequel to HP & the Philosopher's Stone and said to be "darker" than that movie. Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban. 2004. Yet another in the Harry Potter series of movies, said to be "far darker than the previous offerings." (One wonders where these are heading.) Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire. 2005. The fourth in the Harry Potter series of movies. Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix. 2007. The fifth in the Harry Potter series of movies. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince. 2009. The sixth in the Harry Potter series of movies. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. 2010 & 2011. The seventh and eighth in the Harry Potter series of movies, from the seventh Harry Potter book split into two parts. Inchon. 1981. A movie made by Sun Myung Moon, founder of the Moonies cult. Reported to be a really expensive flop, costing a then record US$48 million to make. Left Behind. 2000. The Matrix. 1999. Nooma. PREACHING THE GOSPEL But Bell intends to do something more in NOOMA than provide "life lessons." He intends to preach the gospel. In fact, he says so repeatedly, with statements that run something like, "That’s the gospel, that’s the good news that Jesus brought us." And that’s where these videos become more significant than cool youth Sunday School lessons. They become dangerous. The gospel as Bell communicates it in NOOMA runs something like this: All of us are broken, sinful, selfish, and prideful people. We carry around the baggage of our hurts, our resentments, and our jealousies. As a result we are just a shell of the kind of people God intends us to be. But our God is a loving God who accepts us and loves us just as we are. He can comfort us, heal us, and make us whole, real, authentic, living, laughing people. Not only that, but Jesus came to show us how to live revolutionary lives of love, compassion, and acceptance. By learning from his teachings and following him, we can live the full and complete lives that God intended. And that’s about it. That’s not just the introduction that leads to an explanation of the cross, atonement, the resurrection and salvation, either. So far, at least, that’s what NOOMA holds out as "The Gospel." Full stop. Greg Gilbert points out here that the vital elements of the gospel –
the cross, atonement, the resurrection and salvation – are missing from
the first 18 videos of the Nooma series. For such a carefully made series
this is either an extremely serious oversight or those things are simply
not part of Rob Bell's false gospel. Cameron Buettel (sic) explains why
Rob Bell's nonsense is so dangerous in Why is it so important to expose this stuff? Because it's humanism disguised, masquerading as Christianity. Why is this stuff so dangerous? Because it's so close to the truth the lies often sneak right under your radar. When we elevate man we're actually lowering the cross and we can't afford to do that because the Cross of Jesus Christ is man's only hope. The Other Side of Heaven. 2003. Mormon propaganda film about how much good a Mormon missionary did in Tonga in the 1950s. Got a really bad rating in the NZ Herald, including the comment that it's so saccharine it "makes Disney look like Tarantino." The Omega Code. 1999. The Passion of the Christ. 2004.
The Shack. 2017. Zeitgeist, the Movie. These are surreal perversions of genuine issues and debates, and they tarnish all criticism of faith, the Bush administration and globalisation – there are more than enough factual injustices in this world to be going around without having to invent fictional ones. One really wishes Zeitgeist was a masterful pastiche of 21st-century paranoia, a hilarious mockumentary to rival Spinal Tap. But it's just deluded, disingenuous and manipulative nonsense. [...] If you pretend to know only truth, in truth you know only pretence. Zeitgeist Addendum. |
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