Posted on 12/01/2007 2:06:52 PM PST by ChessExpert
Anti-Christian Crusade - Beowulf is the latest installment in Hollywood’s attempt to reconfigure history
By now, the oft-recurring negative portrayals of Christianity in major Hollywood movies have become hackneyed and predictable. The recent rendition of Beowulf only reinforced this trend. The same subtle depictions and motifs present in movies from decades past were once again present, a favorite being the attempt to try to depict pagans as “open-minded” and “free-spirited” peoples, or, quite anachronistically, as medieval counterparts to the modern, secular, liberal. The idea being that pagan peoples — unencumbered by the suffocating forces of Christianity — were/are happy, passionate folk, able to live life to the fullest.
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Except that their people have the courage and passion to protect their faith. I dont agree with their methods but it would be nice if some Christians developed courage and protected what they believe.
No I dont agree with the methods or reasons of the Islamofascists. But I can tell you that I am sick of seeing christins roll over on issues that they claim are important. Like faith in the workplace, Terri Schiavo, degradation of their symbols...
If the Muzzies believed that Terri S was important, theere would have beeen thousands there to protest. I thought of going down from 12 states away but you know, if the thousands of local Christians could not have been bothered to protect a central tenent of their faith and only 20 to 100 showed to protest, i realized it would be a lost cause.
It never ceases to amaze me that some people’s faith is so weak, that its threatened by books and movies.
Threatening to kill people for applying a prophet's name to a toy is not exactly what I would call "courage and passion".
Even though the Christians seem to get the short end of the Zemeckis/Gaiman/Avary stick, the beast returns to the sea (Book of Revelation) and the old beat up churchman still wears his shiny cross at the end (book of Galatians). Every thinking filmgoer knows the old gods are long gone, replaced in the free marketplace of ideas by an overruling and providential hand of the Almighty God and father of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob: the God and father of our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ!
Kill? Most Christians can’t even stand a look a derision or disapproval. They don’t protest lest their neighbors call them fanatics. Beyond that they don’t left a finger even in self-defence. It is this quietism that is the problem.
Threatening to kill people for applying a prophet’s name to a toy is not exactly what I would call “courage and passion”.
There are lots of different ways to apply courage and passion, I dont agree with how these facsists are doing it, but I also dislike the head in sand attitudes used by most Christians.
I just saw the movie...and again, the filmmakers changed the whole moral of the story...again...moral ambiguity which, if I remember correctly, was not the theme of the original.
It’s the unholiest of alliances in hollyweird and it all comes together beautifully (sarcasm) in the gorgeous and all engrossing film. The departure from history is intentional and gross. Beowulf is a tale that predates Jesus’s time on earth by a thousand years I want to say. Am I wrong because I’ll be honest and say all I got to read of it was the middle or old english version of the poem in college. Hard to follow. It seems they took great liberty to juxtaposition the hedonist against the christian.
The anti-Christian symbolism peaks at the end when you see the cross of the viking ship mast crumble and fall into the sea simultaneous to the earth goddess hedonists appearance and immortal triumph over Christianity, which according to this swisher Zemeckis, ends with death. Their message. Faith is a farce. Hedonism timeless.
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