Hopefully those involved can resume that chat here.
I think the problem Todd Starnes states in the article below is actually much worse than he thinks.
There are people who have a "minimal" faith in God who may have never picked up a Bible, and only go to church on Christmas and Easter.
I suspect I just described a fairly large group of people. I say that based on how my own Church's attendance swells by a factor of three on Christmas, Easter and Mothers Day.
The group of people I just described above goes to see the movie.
They believe it. Every word. Every action. Every scene.
Of course for those of us familiar with the recounting of Noah in the Bible because we've actually read it, we know that Noah wasn't a "mad environmentalist" who wanted to murder his own family as the movie portrays.
We know that's not true because we've read the Biblical recount of Noah for ourselves and what the movie portrays for all of 1 hr 38 minutes is nowhere in the Bible. (Save for the part where God actually causes it to rain and floods the earth.) But those of minimum faith (as I call them) don't know that because they don't pick up their Bibles to read them, and literally "only know what they're told" on Christmas and Easter.
When those of minimum faith see how Noah is portrayed in the movie (a mad environmentalist who wants to kill his family) they believe it because they have not read their Bible. This is where the movie deliberately paints a portrayal of Noah that's not only inaccurate, it's diametrically opposite of who Noah was and what he represented.
For those who may not know, As Noah built the Ark - which was not a small task completed quickly - he urged those around him and all who would listen to repent and be saved. Noah rightly feared God and what he knew was going to happen. He also loved his family and his fellow man so much that he sounded the alarm of repentance over, and over, and over again. No one outside Noah's own family listened.
The real danger of the movie "Noah" is that it deliberately deceives those of "minimum faith" preying on the fact that they may not or do not know the true story.
THAT my friends, is the danger of this movie to the Christian faith.
It's not uncommon for movies to spur sales of the books they were based upon.
Here's hoping millions of people go out and buy The Book.
The rock creatures moved like a Transformer and talked exactly like the head Ent from Lord of the Rings. They fought like Ents too.
I can’t stand Russell Crowe
He and Meg Ryan are adulterers and ruined Dennis Quaid’s marriage
I got no use for either of them
Okay, well, at least he got the portrayal of your typical environmentalist right.
Let's at least give him credit for that.
The couple minutes we got of the “Scottish Noah” from the TV Mini Series “The Bible” was far superior...
Wife and I saw it. Quite enjoyed it.
Everyone knows the story of Noah and it's true biblical story.
Instead, viewers get more environmentalist propaganda that never mentions the word God once.
Surprized ? Hell, he’s a democrat! Democrats (in name only) don’t believe in God. They even booed God at their last convention. They really should be called demo-coms because of their queer marriage with radicals that now control that party .
I have a question - outside conservative media outlets, are people talking about this movie? I’m not hearing people at Church talking about it. Nor are my grandkids asking to see it.
Review by Randall Price ...
Noah, The Film: All Washed Up
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/3138756/posts