Saturday, June 28, 2014

"Persecuted" - Movie About Suffering Christians

"Persecuted" is a new movie in which it appears to tell a story of a politician who 'stands up for Christ' and it looks like it stars Fred Thompson.  He's the one who turned a bit part in "Hunt for Red October" into a term in the US Senate.  That turned into a bit part also and now he's going to be President the only way it would ever happen.  Perhaps it didn't occur to whomever was casting the movie that if Fred Thompson were credible as a President then he would already have been one.

When there's a Christian church on just about every street corner in the US, it's tough to imagine how can anyone can charge something so laughable as persecution.  The Christian church couldn't be any more successful if it put up its own set of golden arches and sold cheap hamburgers.

The persecution is so ludicrous that anything said is always assumed to be an attack on Christianity and you've got the blood of Jesus on your hands, you damn heretic.  Yeah, yeah.  But the fact is, I'm not talking about Christianity, I'm talking about marketing and the obscenity of the way persecution is used to market this particular product.

The persecution of Christ was told much better by Mel Gibson and that persecution was authentic as opposed to the manufactured tripe of today.  Perhaps we could ask atheists what they think about persecution of Christians or perhaps gay people or any of the countless people they have sought to marginalize.  They would all be highly sympathetic, no doubt.  In fact, Christianity hands out persecution like it's a party favor but screams to the walls if it perceives anything as persecution against Christianity.

Religion in Greece was much better.  Practically everyone is Greek Orthodox so no-one even talks about it, everyone just believes.  It's not that I advocate everyone believing the same thing as they didn't insist on that.  If you're an atheist then so what, it doesn't become a challenge to convert you.  What they will do is bring you into their family and you will probably pick up Greek Orthodox along the way.

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