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GrandAdmiralJello would argue we worship Bacchus instead...

 

I worship the gods of reason and logic.

 

Oxymoron

 

YOU ARE

 

Today I am euphoric

 

Happiness does not exist. Only bleakness and despair.

 

So, I hear the Left Behind movie sucks.

 

She does, at Endor. For doing so, Saul and his heir Jonathan were killed in battle against the Philistines immediately following. It's worth pointing out that the woman should not have been operating in Israel in the first place, she being a witch.

 

Thank you!

Not again!

but can it be worse than Wicker Man?

 

And watch they'll claim it's because the no good liberal film critics are persecuting them.

 

I read that the new Left Behind movie doesn't even have the antichrist.

That's like the best part. How could they leave out the antichrist and still think it'll be interesting?

 

Because dumb Christians will eat that crap up anyway, just like they did with God's Not Dead.

 

So is anyone going to see it? I think with Cage and that subject matter it at least could be an entertaining bad film

 

On my facebook feed is a promo poster and there are three review quotes on it.

"Great movie. 5 stars for bringing awareness to the world."

"I watched the movie with my family and my kids were very touched. Jesus is coming soon."

"Very good movie. Definite must see."

Meanwhile in reality(I am lifting this off wikipedia):

Left Behind has been universally panned by critics. On Rotten Tomatoes, the film has a rating of 2%, based on 47 reviews, with an average rating of 2.1/10. The site's consensus reads, "Yea verily, like unto a plague of locusts,Left Behind hath begat a further scourge of devastation upon Nicolas Cage's once-proud filmography." While the Audience Score, as of October 4, 2014, is at 66%. On Metacritic, the film has a score of 13 out of 100, based on 24 critics, indicating "overwhelming dislike".
In a review for Entertainment Weekly, film critic Lindsey Bahr wrote, "At best, Left Behind is shoddily made sensationalist propaganda—with atrocious acting—that barely registers as entertainment. At worst, it's profoundly moronic. Audiences, Christian or not, deserve better, and it's hard to imagine that the ham-fisted revelations in this schlock could serve any higher purpose."
Christian magazine Christianity Today heavily criticized the film, saying, "Left Behind is not a Christian movie, whatever 'Christian Movie' could even possibly mean. In fact, most Christians within the world of the movie—whether the street-preacher lady at the airport or Rayford Steele's wife—are portrayed as insistent, crazy, delusional, or at the very least just really annoying. They want churches to book whole theaters and take their congregations, want it to be a Youth Group event, want magazines like this one to publish Discussion Questions at the end of their reviews—want the system to churn churn away, all the while netting them cash, without ever having to have cared a shred about actual Christian belief. They want to trick you into caring about the movie. Don't. We tried to give the film zero stars, but our tech system won't allow it."
Richard Roeper gave the film a grade of a D-, stating that "the writing is horrible, the direction is clunky, the special effects are not special [and] the acting is so wooden you could make a basketball court out of it."

 

Su[reme court refuses to hear appeal of techer fired fro teaching creationism instead of evolution

 

A christian who si a scientist talks about climate change

The key line here is where she says "As Christians we are targeted with misinformation."

 

This is maybe the funniest thing you've ever said on here and you are typically quite funny, so that is saying something. Time for a new sig!

 

Isn't he kind of too busy to be in a movie, what with the whole presidentin' thing?

 

Well, that's certainly an attention-getting video title.

 

Aside from the fact that it's theologically preposterous and inextricably linked to the uglier aspects of the overtly political wing of evangelical Christianity, I actually do think the general premise of Left Behind--hundreds of millions of people disappearing without a trace and the resulting chaos on the micro and macro scale--could make for a very interesting film. Of course, it would need a huge budget and a skilled director, which I'm sure the brand could never secure. But still.

 

Does it need JAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAYZUS to be a plot? Like if you took the supernatural nonsense out would there still be a story?