A poll commissioned by the creators behind God’s Not Dead 2, has found that 32 percent of Republicans think that Christians are negatively portrayed in films. The poll asked a simple question – “what is your opinion of Hollywood’s treatment of Christianity?” Unsurprisingly, Republicans assumed the victim mentality and remarked that Hollywood is hell bent on creating negative images of Christians. Only 5 percent of Democrats thought that Hollywood was biased against Christians.
Pat Boone is one of the actors in the film. He blasted Hollywood, noting that Christianity imposes certain morals and rules that simply turn off Hollywood executives. Boone mentions that Hollywood is all about “orgies, vampires, zombies, debauchery of all forms.” He suggests that liberal Democrats are the ones who are cosigning these type of films and that type of depravity is the main influence in Hollywood.
In 2008, Boone lamented about how aggressive woman and Black Americans reached in civil rights. Instead of demonstrations and civil disruptions, he recommended that these groups – who were once heavily marginalized – to go through the due process to change laws and attitudes. A year later, he wrote an article associating liberalism with cancer. Boone is not one to make suggestions on his faux assumption moral superiority.
Why Do Some Republicans Feel This Way?
The mental acrobatics that many far-right, fundamentalist Christians go through to assume the persecution complex, can be intimidating to those who are level headed. Many fundamentalists were quick to erase the racist aspects of the massacre in Charleston, South Carolina; instead, substituting the racist attack for a perceived attack on religious liberty. Not only that, but many religious leaders also decried gay marriage in the United States as the start of Christian concentration camps.
Many Republicans like Boone associates the inability of the government to follow Christian orders and those who push back against Christian ideologies, as ample evidence of the persecution of Christians. Never mind that the First Amendment in the Constitution says that the “United States Constitution prohibits the making of any law respecting an establishment of religion.”
Hollywood Has Embraced Christians As Much As It Should
Many movies based on Christianity have been huge blockbusters, like the Passion of the Christ that grossed more than $600 million at the Box Office. The Gods Not Dead movie also earned more than $60 million. Tyler Perry is a filmmaker who also made films that were based on Christianity.
What do you think? Do you think Christians are persecuted in America?
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