I Guess It Takes Courage to be a Christian on Christmas

This is a travesty! They just lowered a giant screen and blocked out the view of Jesus and the manger!! They should be ashamed of trying to hide Jesus behind that screen! Keep Jesus in Christmas where he belongs!!

The only thing I missed was a posse equipped with pitchforks descending upon the house of an atheist played by Janeane Garafolo. Other than that, it was perfect.

Poe’s Law

I guess it takes ignorance not to realize that Christmas was hijacked from the pagans and that the United States is “not in any sense founded upon the Christian religion”…

That’s very funny, but really, you can’t post such over-the-top parodies if you want to be taken seriously. … It is a parody, isn’t it?

Did we just watch a Christian wet dream?

I don’t remember if I made it to the end? 🙂
I agree that it’s not like an official trailer, the clips don’t seem to be capturing the proper contexts. It’s more like a quoting mining effort.

Oh the pain! The pain! I can’t believe I watched all 5 minutes and 13 seconds of that! I should get hazardous duty pay.
Seriously though, that was one of the dumbest things I have ever watched. It had insipid dialogue, bad acting and it seems to have been written by a bunch of 13 yr olds at a youth camp. “You know what would be cool? We could write a movie about how Christians are so persecuted in this country! That would be totally awesome! We could win, like, an Academy award and stuff!”
Yes indeed only in fundie land can the idea of Christians being persecuted in this country be taken seriously. Bibles banned! Crosses not allowed to be put up! Oh the humanity! Yep the paranoia runs deep in these people.

I had never heard of this movie so I assume it went straight to DVD and can only be found in the marked down rack at your local Christian bookstore.

Considering the number of teenage girls that get knocked up in Fundamentalist churches, there’s plenty of fornicating going on. It’s just accompanied with a little extra shame and guilt. Don’t kid yourself that those kids are all abstaining from sex. Or that the older generation screaming about immorality all waited until they got married. I went to a Christian-affiliated college for undergrad. I know for a fact that most of them were boffing their brains out (and then acting like they weren’t of course).

This sums it up for me.

And if you desire to watch the entire 1hr and 38 minutes. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dkA8JR2p_tQ

Lmao…Bob “Revere” is the protagonist. How original.

So, basically, in their own movies, (right-wing) Christians act like petty, vindictive, law-breaking whiners who lie to their offspring in an attempt to claim victim status for the majority, and rewrite history so they can have their traditions and beliefs validated as they share screen time with the cross and the American flag in a message so abjectly clear it would take a dead person to miss it.

I seriously can only pity people who think like this.

I honestly wonder what these people think the future a decade from now will look like.

December 2023: Two emaciated figures hide out in a burned-out Chick-fil-A warehouse

Dude 1: “Did you hear that?”
Dude 2: “No, what?”
Dude 1: “I heard a snapping sound outside by the fence.”
Dude 2: “It’s probably just another random patrol by Solyndra. They’re always re-positioning their Prius patrol vehicles this time of night.'”
Dude 1: “There it is again!” *grabs shotgun* “YULE!”
Dude 2: *distant voice* “TIDE!”
Dude 1: “Thank god, it’s Madeline. In here!”
Madeline: “Sorry, it took me a minute. A bunch of IRS footsoldiers were randomly dosing women with Depo Provera over by the Obamaphone factory on Clinton Avenue.”
Dude 1: “Those animals!”
Madeline: “Yeah, but we’ll show them. We’ve prepared some victim-operated mistletoe devices. We’ll block Benghazi Avenue with a nativity scene, then when a patrol stops to collect it we’ll hit ’em!”
Dude 2: “Those secular bastards are gonna get it! We’ve been making a list, motherfuckers, and we’ve checked it twice!”
Dude 1: For Sarah Palin, Queen of the North!

…I might have mixed up my references there at the end.

I think I just got a little bit sick in my mouth! The true fundies believe that in the “end days” Christians will be the persecuted ones. Some of their pastors (almost happily ) believe, and spread their interpretation of the bible to fuel the notion that we are already in “end times”. I think they’re partially right, just not the kind of end times they’d like. Religion is under threat, and this kind of mind-numbingly saccharine coated drivel is no great surprise. It will probably win awards at Creation Fest.

I only lasted 1:12

The fundies I work with are the most hag-ridden, dysfunctional, perpetually complaining, depressed, fearful people I know. No joyous Xtians there !! I don’t know which is the chicken or egg – whether their personality types drew them to fundamentalism, or whether they were already fundie and it just exacerbates the situation. Either way, they’re perpetually NOT happy people.

On the positive side:
1. This movies gets a 3,9 on IMDb;
2. It features Fred Williamson, a Blaxploitation star from the 70’s. He probably also is the best actor of the entire cast.

I had no idea Aronra had a cameo.. awesome!

Not only was prayer not “banned in school” (school-led prayer was), banning prayer/bibles in school would be a violation of the establishment clause too.

I watched the whole movie for camp value just a few weeks ago. I also watched “C is for Christmas,” a much nicer and ever-so-slightly less stupid film.

It is not clear from the muddled filmmaking, but this film may be set in the “near future, not specified,” in which bringing a bible to school IS illegal. “Bob Revere’s” son was either killed in the first Gulf War or in the second one. If in the second, we are in a near-future dystopia, if the first, it is the hellish secular hell we inhabit now where no Christian dare s to raise his voice.

As usual, the stupidity is not a single course, but a smorgasbord.

That was pathetic in everyway. Sad wooden dialogue, straw man after lie after straw man. Unfortunately their those gullible enough to swallow it.

They keep their congregations in a perpetual state of spiritual blue balls.

being stupid for Christ goes back to Paul.

How brave to stand with the majority.

Best accidental argument for secularism

Argumentum unawarous?

Yeah I thought that was pretty idiotic too. I remember thinking “WTF?”

I knew the movie was bad, but I didn’t realize how big of a pos it was. Christmas, the bible, and prayer banned in school, in what world? Oh no, they are calling it “winter break” instead of “christmas break” I can truly see now the persecution that they are suffering. I am not offended by a cross in public as long as it’s not on government property. You can have all the religious iconography you want on your private property. The thing that bugs me most about the movie is that it is clearly a mission church that does not appear to be on public property so no one would ask for the cross to be taken down. The ending is just pure right-wing circle jerk and yet it is somewhat realistic. If you show a soldier supporting something then you are unamerican, to many on the right wing, if you not support that soldier’s views.

Weepy christian mental breakdowns? Check.

As a final note I have to say I just love the cameo by O’reilly. Plus anybody else notice that one of the only two black character is the evil aclu laywer that kind of looks like jackie chiles from seinfield?

The movie is real, but this video was not made by the same people as far as I can tell. So this clip is a parody, but the scenes are really from the film.

I was pleasantly surprised to hear Fur Elise in the bookstore last week. They seem to be mixing in some non-Christmas music, which is especially nice since I first heard a Christmas song shortly after Halloween. I used to work in that store and we always started the Christmas music on Black Friday, but it was all Christmas all the time (with the occasional Hannukah song thrown in) from then until December 24.

My question is… Are they willingly ignorant of what we want when we say “separation of church and state”? Do they realize we are OK with them celebrating Christmas in their homes? Do they realize many of us ALSO celebrate Christmas? Do they realize many atheists (not me, mind you), LOVE Christmas music?

My guess is, yes, they are willfully ignorant and just want excuses to stoke their enormous persecution complexes.

Whenever asking the question of right-wingers (Christian or otherwise): “Are you willfully ignorant of X?”, always assume “yes”. That sounds dismissive and generalizing, but in my experience they hardly ever take what you say at face value on your personal benefit of the doubt because they *need* to believe in one or more subversive forces, the perceived existence of which validates and licenses them to behave in whatever way they feel they can/have to/must in order to protect whatever it is they’re protecting. What I describe can be seen in the daily operation and rhetoric of the GOP.

Bob… can’t… do… that!

The Christian War on the Constitution.

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If you did a drinking game to all of the lies being presented as truth in that movie you would die.

ROADHOUSE!