Do you think it's insensitive for Christian movie studios to make films based on real events that possibly affected non-Christians?

I don’t mind. Movies are fiction.

I don’t mind. Angels are fiction.

The movies will pretty much be “preaching to the choir.” After all, how many “Christian” films have you come across at your local Cineplex?

@stanleybmanly You have a point. There’s usually 4 or 5 a year that come to my local theaters

Christ. Who out there leads such an empty life that they monitor and act on such things? Talk about showing all your cards, all your weaknesses. I am reminded of the old adage, “Offense is taken, not given.”

I keep hearing about things like aggressive groups of women going through commuter trains back in the states loudly insisting that men cross their legs while sitting because these whiney little creeps obviously find males generally offensive and what lies between their legs even more so. I was once actually castigated by some little shit here on Fluther for using gender-specific pronouns because it offended him. And this new breed of Nazi, the SJW. Please. Where do these assholes come from? I’ll tell you: The States.

I am so glad I no longer live in that insane society, that Confederacy of Dunces (Thank you, O’Toole). These things, in my book, are the best reasons for issuing carrying permits. But just in the States. There aren’t any reasons for them anywhere else. At this point, all I want to know is: When does the Season open? I just might return for that.

Freedom of speech includes both the freedom to make a movie and the freedom not to see it.

@Pachy Completely agree with you

The real problem, once again, is censorship.

If people criticize christian films, then christians will feel that they have the right to criticize and try and censor other films – maybe with sex or violence that they disapprove of.

There are many roads to censorship. My view is that (except for child pron), people are free to make whatever films they want with whatever philosophies they want. Anything else starts us down those roads.

How are the unGodly people effected, because children, who often are more receptive to things than adults, claimed to see angels there? If that was a factual part of what the children saw, why skip it? How many movies based off spiritual matter have all sorts of untrue facts and incidences that could affect someone’s salvation but nothing much is said of that?

I have no problem with this. No surprise, since I am a Christian.
I do believe that miracles happen.

Freedom of speech requires acceptance of different points of view. It also means that those promoting a different point of view have to accept criticism from those who don’t share it.

How is it any different from all the other christian propaganda materials and lies they have produced over the centuries?
People who already believe it will believe it, and those who know better will roll their eyes.

@rockfan You’re kidding! People actually show up and pay money where you live to watch that stuff?

It seems that more and more people are offended at more and more things lately.

Also, what @Pachy said.

There have been many movies made about things that did not interest me, and I chose not to go. Meh.

@stanleybmanly Well considering the U.S is largely Christian, especially in Kentucky where I live, I’m not surprised a lot of people go see them.

I’m fine with this movie. The movie is told from the perspective of the Christian children I guess. I don’t know the movie. If they believe they saw angels that’s fine.

Children believe in, or hear stories of, all sorts of magic.

There was a story by some jello recently who got a superman costume as a child and subsequently jumped off a roof believing he could fly.
You have to take anything a child says with a kilo of salt, especially ones indoctrinated by religion.

@rockfan Come to think of it, it would make sense in the heart of the Bible Belt that the concentration of people looking for that sort of thing would be high enough to make screening such films viable. Do they draw a good turnout? Have you ever seen one?

I don’t mind. Movies and angels are fiction.

@stanleybmanly Yes, I saw God’s Not Dead on a Tuesday night and it was packed. One of the worst movies I’ve ever seen, and it was a bizarre experience hearing the audience cheer during a scene in which a Christian makes an absolutely asinine speech against evolution.

Other Christian movies that have also played where I live are Courageous, The Identical, Unstoppable, Mom’s Night Out, Grace Unplugged, When the Game Stands Tall, Kirk Cameron’s Saving Christmas, Do You Believe?, and Faith of Our Fathers. I think some of those are even wide release movies.

Are the movies screened at one particular theater or is the craze everywhere? What does a ticket go for on a Tuesday night? Are they heavily advertised on the local radio and tv stations? do the local newspapers review the films?

They’re usually screened in all of the Cinemark theaters, and the tickets at night are about 9.50. They’re usually advertised on the radio, and local newspapers always review them, and even do a full length story in the entertainment section of the newspaper.

@rockfan What is it specifically that bothers you about the movie? If people believe in that sort of thing do you feel there is a big downside to it?

@JLeslie People believing in angels doesn’t bother me

@rockfan Ok. I guess I misunderstood. Thanks for clarifying.

I watched the trailer to “God’s not dead”. Like the title, there’s nothing subtle about the message. I suppose such films are the parallel to the phenomenon of “Christian Rock” music, another genre about which I’m clueless. I guess both disciplines make sense for communities faced with vanishing affirmations for their beliefs in the world around them.