Why did Hollywood come to Hate Religion?

Intellectual Conservative ^ | October 10, 2003 | Bruce Walker

[international american]

Tender Mercies 1983? took 1 year to get financed. The bridge financing was finally obtained when Duvall put up some of the money himself. It won 2 academy awards, including Best Actor (Duvall) and returned 600% on its investment over 4 years.
Touched by an Angel was scheduled to be cancelled after 4 episodes, until a massive write-in campaign happened. It was more profitable than Seinfeld (80% cheaper to produce)

Go figure.

[joesnuffy]

When Satan was cast down to the earth....he musta first landed in Hollywood, CA and said to himself : "Home sweet home"

[international american]

I think you know the answer to all of your questions:)

[international american]

Hollywood was pretty good until the mid 1960's when the old moguls started to die off, and the left wing "Harvard-Heads" began to replace them.

[uncbob]

As long as they continue to make $$$$$$they will get away with it

SO ask the religious types who continue to pay $$$ to watch the slop Hollywood puts out

[Taft in '52]

The Old Hollywood was actually part of an old popular culture establishment that was friendly towards religion.

In the 1950's, for example, Christian values and religious belief were reflected throughout mainstream popular culture, not just in movies. Popular songs with religious overtones included "Les Trois Cloches" ("The Three Bells"), "I Believe," "This Old House," "They Locked God Outside the Iron Curtain," "The Red Deck of Cards," "He," and "He's Got the Whole World In His Hands." Even Elvis Presley's 1958 hit "Hard-Headed Woman" was based on stories from the Old Testament.

Some of the hottest-selling books of the decade included A Man Called Peter, the story of Senate Chaplain Peter Marshall, by his widow Katherine Marshall (which was also made into a movie) and The Power of Positive Thinking by the influential preacher Norman Vincent Peale. And one of the biggest television stars of the decade was Fulton Sheen, a Catholic cleric.

While it is true that you can still find music, books, and television shows that emphasize religious themes and values, you have to look for them in nich markets such as Christian radio and television stations, as they have long since vanished from mainstream popular culture.

[MississippiMan]

Hollywood is exactly like the rest of the anti-Jehovah world. Their core hatred is a result, of course, of choosing to follow Satan, even though most don't consciously make the choice. The surface hatred is because they don't want anyone or anything to suggest that right and wrong exists. Simply put, they want to be able to live with themselves without giving up their sin, so they find ways to convince themselves there's no such thing as sin. Then EVERYTHING is wide open. Every perversion is okay. They can live their hedonistic lives and think of themselves as "good."

Again, it all comes back to Satan. If you don't believe that, ask yourself why every other religion in the world is okay with the left. No problem. "Respect their faith," they'd say. Not with the Judeo-Christian God, however. The merest mention of Him is enough to send many of the Godless into a manic fit. Why? Because Jehovah, Jesus, the Judeo-Christian God, is the only one Satan is scared of. And there's the whole issue in a nutshell.

MM

[Condor51]

"Hollywood was pretty good until the mid 1960's"

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Except for the communists there in the 30's, 40's & 50's.

Lucille Ball was a registered commie. Supposedly she joined the CPUSA in the 30's to 'please' her grand-father - yeah, sure. And when I found out John Garfield was a commie, I quit watching any of his movies on TCM. (And why the heck did he have a girls nick name - Julie? What was that all about?!?)

As far as I'm concerned J Edgar Hoover should've arrested them ALL and shipped them to mother Russia on a tramp steamer.

[international american]

We all know the "Hollywood Ten", and it was more like 80, but remember the old moguls FIRED them all.


I was all for HUAC!! I wish we had them today!!

[Dante3]

Many from the porn business and their supporters took over and have made it more or less a closed shop. Look at the values promoted by many of the prime time shows. Why promote values that destroy family life and promote one-night stands in this age of AIDS?

[international american]

"Why promote values that destroy family life and promote one-night stands in this age of AIDS?"

This has been going on since the late 60's.

[Queen Jadis]

When Satan was cast down to the earth....he musta first landed in Hollywood, CA and said to himself : "Home sweet home" How right you are...I live in West Los Angeles. I feel weird everytime I have to go into Hollywood.

[raloxk]

Duh???

It is becaue hollywood is nihilistic, and religion believes in an absolute right/wrong

[68 grunt]

Since the communist infiltration in the 50's. The infiltration which Sen. McCarthy was trying to bust.

[international american]

"I live in West Los Angeles. I feel weird everytime I have to go into Hollywood."

Stay out of West Hollywood. At red lights, they walk up and peek at your crotch:)

I haven't driven through there since the mid 80's.

[Fiddlstix]

When Satan was cast down to the earth....he musta first landed in Hollywood, CA and said to himself : "Home sweet home"

Hear! Hear!
Ain't it the truth!

[international american]

No Duh needed. I have an office at Warner Bros.

[nmh]

Hollywood endorses everything the Bible speaks out against. Hollywood doesn't want any competition is recruiting evil to its ranks. Evil is not tolerant, patient or kind ... it is the exact opposite.