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God is Not Dead 2 but Mandrake's battery is. pray for a charger GAF, pray hard.

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obin_gam

obin_gam

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Freeza Under The Shower said:
eh no, there is no evidence to suggest there was a Jesus, or what city the 'inspiration' supposedly lived in. It's all bullshit basically.
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Yes there are. Not in naming a guy exactly as "the one", but there are records from that area and that time vicinity that hints towards a sect being led by a guy the jewish leaders didnt like.

I would suggest the book "Jesus and the first christians" by Dieter Mitternacht, it's only in Swedish though it seems.
 
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Kid Ska

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Oh fuck yes I can't wait for Mandrake's take on this one. I still lose my shit every time I read the first synopsis.
 
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Savitar

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Know what the film needs more of?

Super Mecha Death Christ 2000

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Him showing up to wreck shit would have made it a more more visceral experience.
 
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Revolver

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Wait, this movie takes place in Arkansas? That's definitely the place I think of when I picture out of control Christian persecution.

No way I'm seeing this in a theater but might catch it on home video just for the ridiculousness. Hopefully Ray Wise chews ever last bit out of the scenery.
 
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Ziltoidia 9

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I actually did a video shoot this morning with one of the Actresses in the movie, she did something for the local police office here.
 
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SchrodingerC

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SigmasonicX said:
* The closing argument is about how if the professor loses the court case, this will be a slippery slope leading to Christians around the country being rounded up and executed. This convinces the jury that God's Not Dead.

And most shocking, there was a trailer for a PureFlix movie... about Columbine. Holy shit.
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The persecution complex of some American Christians is truly ridiculous. Send these fools to where Christians are actually being oppressed and maybe they'll see they're well off in the US. American Christians could also learn to stop trying to oppress others with outrageous laws.

I need to watch the newest Midnight Screenings vid.
 
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Retro

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SchrodingerC said:
The persecution complex of some American Christians is truly ridiculous.
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And it's been going on forever, you think they'd have realized by now this "Round up all the Christians and send them to camps" thing isn't gonna happen;

"Just like what Nazi Germany did to the Jews, so liberal America is now doing to the evangelical Christians. It's no different. It is the same thing. It is happening all over again. It is the Democratic Congress, the liberal-based media and the homosexuals who want to destroy the Christians. Wholesale abuse and discrimination and the worst bigotry directed toward any group in America today. More terrible than anything suffered by any minority in history."

--Pat Robertson, 1993 interview with Molly Ivins
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SigmasonicX said:
Couple of things to note from the Midnight Screenings video:
* The blogger that got cancer returns, she managed to pray herself into remission.
* The Chinese guy who converted to Christianity gets slapped and disowned by his father for converting.
* The court case is about a professor who preaches to one of her students outside of class.
* The villains are the ACLU, who wish to use this court case to prove that God is Dead.
* They prove that Jesus existed... using verses from the Bible.
* At one point, the government forces pastors to submit their sermons from the past three months, with the implication that the government wants to censor them.
* The closing argument is about how if the professor loses the court case, this will be a slippery slope leading to Christians around the country being rounded up and executed. This convinces the jury that God's Not Dead.

And most shocking, there was a trailer for a PureFlix movie... about Columbine. Holy shit.
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What, if Klebold and Harris found Jesus they wouldn't have killed 13 people?

Jesus.
 
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Tugatrix

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SigmasonicX said:
Couple of things to note from the Midnight Screenings video:
* The blogger that got cancer returns, she managed to pray herself into remission.
* The Chinese guy who converted to Christianity gets slapped and disowned by his father for converting.
* The court case is about a professor who preaches to one of her students outside of class.
* The villains are the ACLU, who wish to use this court case to prove that God is Dead.
* They prove that Jesus existed... using verses from the Bible.
* At one point, the government forces pastors to submit their sermons from the past three months, with the implication that the government wants to censor them.
* The closing argument is about how if the professor loses the court case, this will be a slippery slope leading to Christians around the country being rounded up and executed. This convinces the jury that God's Not Dead.

And most shocking, there was a trailer for a PureFlix movie... about Columbine. Holy shit.
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Makes total sense
 
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ibyea

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I just saw the review for the first movie. Holy crap!

These movies are more like evidences that there is no God. :p
 
Trojita

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Apple Turnover said:
Anyone know if we can expect another Duck Dynasty cameo?
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You know how persecuted early Christians reportedly used The Ichthys Symbol (Jesus Fish) to recognize friends and meeting places?

Now instead of scratching the symbol into the sand to recognize that they are among like minded believers the "persecuted" Christians in this movie
murmur the words "Duck Dynasty" to each other.

I would like to be kidding, but I read this from a review.
 
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Ha, growing up in the Black community and going to church through the years I remember singing the song that's the title to this movie. Always struck me as odd singing God's not dead, He's still alive! I can feel'em in my head, feel'em in my feet, I can feel'em all over me! Haha, not really relevant to the discussion but brought back memories.
 
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ElBoxyBrown

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Tugatrix said:
Based on a bullshit story about a girl who was spared because was praying
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She was the first person killed. Her whole story is they found her diary on her which had messages of spreading love and compassion to one another and that's pretty much her legacy. My high school had an hour long assembly talking about her. But something tells me this movie is gonna exaggerate the fuck out of her story and make it seem like her prayers saved all the surviving students and faculties.
 
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Agent Cooper said:
I thought she wasn't spared... but all my knowledge comes from the Flyleaf song people told me is like 700% wrong.
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There are three seperate girls that people get confused. Cassie Bernall was initially misreported to have been asked if she believed in God, and said yes, prior to being shot and killed. It was a big deal, her mom wrote a book, the songs are about her... But she wasn't the girl asked that question. Valeen Schnurr was shot prior to being asked, and she survived.

The movie is about Rachel Scott, a girl who died and whose parents created a non-religious non-profit youth outreach based on a code of ethics she'd written. If Wikipedia is to be believed, her story could actually make forr a thoughtful movie about her beliefs and how her family is trying to act on them. But I don't really think these are the people to do it.
 
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iammeiam said:
There are three seperate girls that people get confused. Cassie Bernall was initially misreported to have been asked if she believed in God, and said yes, prior to being shot and killed. It was a big deal, her mom wrote a book, the songs are about her... But she wasn't the girl asked that question. Valeen Schnurr was shot prior to being asked, and she survived.

The movie is about Rachel Scott, a girl who died and whose parents created a non-religious non-profit youth outreach based on a code of ethics she'd written. If Wikipedia is to be believed, her story could actually make forr a thoughtful movie about her beliefs and how her family is trying to act on them. But I don't really think these are the people to do it.
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The Rachel Scott story is really interesting actually. We had to watch a video about her and Columbine during high school. That video still haunts me to this day...
 
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Data West

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Like if you had to make a Columbine movie, which you should leave to documentary makers, you'd want to make it about the life of Dave Sanders.

But that's harder to shoehorn around an already shoehorned religious movie trying to cash in on a tragic event. And you couldn't shoehorn a CW romance subplot in it.
 
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