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A Christian's faith should be strong enough to see the movie and make good moral decisions about its content.
It would be so much better if the crusade were against movies with recreational drawn out overly graphic violence.
Hollywood’s idea of romance: a billionaire uses his wealth and power to seduce a woman and persuade her to be used to satisfy his fetish of inflicting physical pain on his partner.
Happy Valentine’s Day! /s
You must go “Behind the Green Door” to watch 50 shades of gray.
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I’ve read compelling examinations of the book that clearly make it look like a story of pedophilia. Although the girls age is said to be over 20, throughout the book her language is more akin to a 9 year old.
Having once been forced to read a couple of pages of this drivel by a couple of female friends, I can say I have no interest whatsoever in reading more of it or watching this movie. If I remember correctly, I think I actually laughed at it, I thought it was so ridiculously bad and trashy.
As has been suggested elsewhere, condemnation alone is not enough. In addition, there should be an explanation of healthy and normal sexual relations in the context of faith and marriage. And I would suggest another element as well.
A major reason people engage in such sadomasochistic behaviors is because they have no warm, loving way of relating to those of the opposite gender. Sexuality for them is cheap and unfulfilling, because it lacks commitment and love.
The reason for this is that they were never properly socialized with children of the opposite gender (while chaperoned) for most of their young lives.
They are in the same predicament as are dogs that are raised apart from other dogs, and who thus see them as hostile outsiders. When mature, they still want to mate, but it is “sleeping with the enemy”, with an undercurrent of deep hostility.
People of this sort consume huge amounts of pornography, but live miserable lives of loneliness. They want to go through the motions of mating, but nothing else. And sexuality this way is empty and mean. They despise and dismiss those they want to have sex with.
Again, the way around this problem is for parents to socialize their children with other children, in a safe and friendly way; and not so distracted with work assigned by adults that they can ignore each other.
Do not assume that this happens in school or church, because there, children are kept busy, so have no time to socialize with each other at the depth they need to achieve understanding.
Great post Gamecock. A believer isn’t called to wade through filth to prove he or she is washed clean by Christ’s blood.
I got about halfway through the book.
If anyone could get a halfway decent script out of that mess of a book, I applaud them.
My beef with the book was not the content. It was the writing. It was an unedited, poorly constructed mess.
What you (the third person you) do in your bedroom, or dungeon is cool with me as long as I don’t have to watch it or hear it.
I am sure what my wife and I do with ice cream is of no interest to you or anyone else.
Lets keep it that way.
This is the liberal ‘Passion of Christ’ movie.
I have no intent on seeing it, but it sounds kind of creepy telling others not to see it in the name of their standards.
I guess I’m too preoccupied with my own soul to be worrying about somebody else’s.
Pity the Christian who can’t see this movie and see the vapidness it represents.
I wondered why this book, 50 Shades of Gray, was being talked about and was a best seller. I got it, read it, and it’s no different than any adult fiction book written for sexual excitement. It’s not going to make anyone a “sinner” if he/she reads it. It’s just a racy book like thousands of others available. This book was able to be put into “regular” reading fiction instead of trashy romance books and so it got a best seller rating from the general public. Plus, it’s no better written than romance books. It just “maybe” has more explicit sex scenes.
I wouldn’t pay money to see the movie. There is no way those sex scenes could be completely played out on a movie screen so it has to be watered down for the screen.
It’s just a book and the movie is just a movie. No big deal.