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Michael Medved, movie reviewer and conservative talk show host, wonders all the time when HoWood is going to get it that nice clean movies enjoy high ratings. He frequently announces boxoffice numbers and clean movies consistently do as well as if not better than violent sex.

Well, let's look at the top grossing movies of 2000.

Harry Potter - $313.7M - has been called evil and Satanic by many Freepers...

Lord of the Rings - $217.4M - has also been called evil, although it was based on a book written by a devout Catholic, you can't really call this a nice clean movie...

Shrek - $267.6M, and Monsters Inc - $251.6M - both of these are suitable for children as well as adults. I don't know if either of these movies could be described as having a "strong Christian worldview" though, and that is the criterion that Movieguide was using

Rush Hour 2 - $226.1M and The Mummy Returns - $202M certainly can't be described as good Christian movies - both full of violence, and in the Mummy, occult as well.

Pearl Harbor - $ 198.5M - historical violence, romance, don't recall anything with a strong Christian worldview.

Jurrasic Park III - $181.2M, Ocean's 11 - $180.5M, Planet of the Apes - $180M - These are all violent movies.

So, out of the top ten grossing movies of 2001, how many of these would qualify as "with a very strong Christian worldview" and how many qualify as "humanist, pagan, Romantic, Communist, feminist, occult, homosexual or anti-patriotic?" Do you still really believe that films "with a very strong Christian worldview" earned nearly twice as much in 2001 as moviesthat are "humanist, pagan, Romantic, Communist, feminist, occult, homosexual or anti-patriotic?" I don't. I would be willing to be convinced, but so far, I don't think the data supports it at all.

Do you still really believe that films "with a very strong Christian worldview" earned nearly twice as much in 2001 as moviesthat are "humanist, pagan, Romantic, Communist, feminist, occult, homosexual or anti-patriotic?"

I have no stats to argue one way or the other, but you are providing "grosses" and Movieguide said "earned". Do you suppose the difference lies between the meaning of those two words? And then there is the video rental and sales market. Have those figures been added? A lot of movie companies release a film to the theaters for only a week or so, expecting to make their profits at the video store.