I went to catholic school and had a priest as a teacher. He made us watch "God is not dead" just so he could tell us how horrible it is and how much he feels offended as a christian lol
Man I hate movies like this. And that's from the perspective of a Christian. They're condescending, belittling, and only serve as a means for "Christians" to feel better about themselves. It doesn't help that they're almost always written badly, too. They make us look bad, as if we needed any help with that
The reason I find these Christian movies suck is because they’re just made to make Christians feel good about themselves and to keep them from being a part of the rest of the world. My biggest issue with Christian music, movies etc, is that Christian artists insist on making Christian only content. As a devout Catholic, I’m currently minoring in Shakespeare/Performance at my university. We did Macbeth last year and this year we’re doing Hamlet. You can be a Christian and also make art that everyone can enjoy.
Elizabeth Levesque I’m also a catholic majoring in theatre! I’ve always had trouble digesting Christian media, since I feel it’s extremely limiting. One can see God in beauty and art, in the struggles of the human condition and that’s all around us, not in this watered down propagandist content!
Geographically speaking, Portugal is part of Spain. Politically they're indipendent, of course. ... Don't let anyone from Portugal know I've said that.
But he doesn't even use Nietzche to make any arguments! Everything stems from some emotional tragedy that he had, and this is not how Atheists arrive to their suspension of belief. At best, this "Philopseudophy" Professor is a Misotheist (God-hating). In order to hate God, you'd have to believe in God's existence in the first place. It's silly to project this unto Atheists. It'd be equivalent to anybody over the age of 8 saying "I hate Unicorns" or "I hate Santa". It's also silly when Theists threaten Atheists that they'll go to hell, when hell is viewed as an imaginary place to them. Another funny one is when Theists warn Atheists that the devil is manipulating them, which reminds me of that meme: "Uhh if I don't believe in your Sky Daddy, why would I believe in your Ground Troll?".
On high school I had one professor, openly believer of "Marx", and he taught us Nietzsche all year. Things are different outside the US. Sadly they're not better either
Let’s all start with a high schooler’s understanding of why Nietzche was saying “God is Dead” and no elaborating in any way on the fact that the writing this is from is actually calling out his Atheist contemporaries.
Ngl, my philosophy professor in college was kinda the same way. His goal was to stimulate conversation though, not to be a standin for richard dawkins.
tbh that was not even Nietzsche's point, by saying that "God is Dead" he symbolized that a new era came where the church no longer had all the power and people were free to be who they wanted to be, not that Christians shouldn't exist or smth
@@brandonkerr93 "God is dead. God remains dead. And we have killed him. How shall we comfort ourselves, the murderers of all murderers" What Nietzsche meant by this is that basically all moral and ethical norms and rules we have (like you shouldn't kill and you shouldn't steal) all come from religion. Specifically Christianity for us Europeans/Americans. You can't really say why we have these norms or why they are important logically. Nietzsche was also mentioning Kant and his categorical imperative (maxim) and that it is also based in religion. What he meant by this quote is that once you denounce God and religion and become an atheist, those moral rules no longer have an "anchor". They are no longer based on religion. And therefore, it might become very easy to fall into nihilism and denounce all these ethical and moral rules altogether. To be clear, Nietzsche wasn't condoning nihilism, but warning against it. And if you decide to study Nietzsche, know that most of his works and philosophies are outdated. And sorry for the bad English. I'm not native. Edit: This is mostly my interpretation. As for the movie, as a christian AND a student of philosophy (those two things can coexist believe it or not) I was extremely offended by this movie. Plus, using Descartes for example to prove God's existence would've been much better. Not to mention many saints were also philosophers (like Augustin or Thomas Aquinas) so a philosophy professor that despises religion is extremely unrealistic.
My grandmother was Muslim and she used to say that good Christians are the same as good Muslims, and the most important thing is to be a good person. People should be more accepting of each other, regardless of their personal beliefs. We all go through similar life experiences as human beings existing in society and it’s important to remember that
I believe that God comes to people in the way they are most likely to accept Him. For me, that's Christianity, but it could be any number of religions or even secular things like appreciating science, art, humanity, etc. It would be foolish for any of us to try to put God in a box
Exactly instead of people doing dumb debates we could learn about each other’s culture , I love Islamic history even though I’m not Muslim, I think peace is better than proving someone wrong
Being forced to Watch God’s Not Dead 2 separate times for high school bible class was hell especially since we had the choice of the Prince of Egypt and/or Veggietales but nah the class chose gods not fucking dead
I had to watch the first one (also in religion class) and it's so bad, but the second one is like on an another level lol i'm sorry you had to go through that, I also had to watch an abortion of a movie called sarah's choice, which is like the worst movie ever
I heard about it and was surprised there wasn’t a scene in the class were one of the Hindu students gets confused over the “gods not dead” cause they believe in multiple gods so it got to be more specific
I hate and love how they made the ACLU of all groups the antagonist in the second movie. Like holy shit PureFlix just say you hate religious equality and go lmao
The best part is that Muslims believe that most of the events of the bible occurred, but that Jesus was a prophet and predecessor to Muhammed. Corinthians is not blasphemy
because in real life, Muslims are not monsters. I am a Christian, and my best friend is a Muslim, we don't have any issues or such. Wish people would stop making such terrible movies and such giving Christians a bad name.
The quran even expressly instructs Muslims to study "the earlier signs of God" i.e. The Torah and the bible, which, again, according to the quran, are true, except for the parts where they contradict the quran.
Quoting a well-known priest from Poland, a guy who has his own radio station and close ties to the government's leading party "Everyone has temptations" As if a priest pedophile who'd been sexually abusing numerous children for years is somehow the same as eating too many sweets
@@Aska2468 IDK as someone with OCD, your thoughts don’t always mean you enjoy or not enjoy doing something. Intrusive thoughts and feelings are part of being a human being and don’t define you. I hate it when people are like “well you thought of it or had the temptation to do it that must mean that you are it and are just suppressing it” when that’s not how the mind works; and for people like me, who struggle with intrusive thoughts, it can be quite a damaging mindset to be in.
I’m reminded of this little anecdote I read once, called “the reason for atheists” Basically, a preacher is talking about how God makes all things to have a purpose. One kid in the front, trying to stump the preacher, asks “what is the point of atheists then?” presumably to either the chortling or annoyance of the rest of the audience. The preacher then says that atheists are here to show that you need not believe in anything to be good to others. While Christians can be great and lovely, some use religion to be awful. Atheists who choose respect and love with no God to answer to show us that being good is not some religious idea, it’s purely something humans want to do. That story always makes me smile because as someone who believes in some form of God, it shows that no matter what’s out there, we can all be good to one another. We need not agree on everything, we just need to respect each other as humans.
This anecdote is gold. As someone who does believe in God but chose not to follow Him, I was told that I was going to Hell and suffer by many Christians (I go to a Christian High School). I once questioned them that if I do no crime and always good to others, but just chose not to believe in him, will I still go to Hell, and they said yeah I will. That’s one of the reasons that turned me away from Christianity, because if they are right, no matter what you do, it will not matter if you don’t believe in God.
Imagine telling a dying man who’s groaning in pain and agony that his suffering is “a gift” and then using his passing to promote your religious beliefs. Dude...
Tem Tem Well it was the pastor trying to save him, would you rather the pastor do nothing and have a guilty conscience that that man got sent to whatever hell he believes in??
@@jordan82514 So basically what you're saying is "Dude, I know you're dying, but think of the pastor's feelings! D: " just no. I'd want him to call 911. I'd be grateful for the 911 call. I would absolutely hate being proselytised to in such a situation. You may think you're trying to help/save my eternal soul, but what you're actually doing is unbelievably shitty and borderline abuse. Please don't ever proselytise unsolicited to people who are suffering. Especially since, afterlife or no, religion on Earth causes so much suffering it's insane.
Just these last few years have made me realize that there are people who will do exactly this and preach to you as you are writhing in pain. Happened to me, I honestly couldn't do anything cause my stomach hurt so badly I wanted to end myself. Happened every single month for two weeks straight. And what does my grandmother tell me as I'm suffering? "Oh! But God is only doing this so that you can learn and be saved." K, clearly I don't want to them if this is "salvation" just go get me my painkillers, thanks.
God’s Not Dead insulted itself with the whole “if God isn’t real then why should we be good” thing. God wants us to do good for the sake of doing good! Doing good just to get a reward shoes that you are not a good person.
It’s to convince people who leave Christianity to act recklessly and ruin their lives so that they’ll come back to Christianity. Not to mention they will completely lack the ability to reason morals without God. They’d have to learn everything from the ground up. It is a horrible manipulation tactic.
Yes, that is a key Christian argument about proving God exists. "Without the Bible we wouldn't have morals" like everyone who isn't a Christian is a scumbag and doesn't understand right from wrong. And, if we want to discus morality, well, God had the wives of men who did wrong raped. Nice, right?
@@dandelion030 Sadly Kevin Sorbo (The actor) is totally in on this kind of thing. He's played the redeemed atheist in a couple movies now and in both he's the "God took someone I love so I hate him!" type of "atheist". (If you believe in God, even if you hate him, you're not an atheist Sorbo!) I'm fairly certain he wrote the second one which came out after God's Not Dead so yeah...
My dad is a preacher and he hates this trilogy because it poses a dangerous message that atheists are horrible, selfish, people. He talked to a priest we know (who also hates these movies) and says that the biggest inaccuracy of the first movie is that a college Professor is not allowed to force his beliefs on his students (which is the whole point of the first movie). Edit: My dad also hated the "text God's not Dead to spread the word" thing because it was stupid and people were blowing up his phone one day because of it.
Most of those ridiculous "films" have horrible messages, and poorly paint the picture of what it is to be both athiest and Christian. I wish they would stop turning their biased sermons into movies, and focus on loving and serving people instead. The movies are an embarrassment to Christianity and only serve to push people away from the faith, if this is what the "faith" looks like 😞
This could've been a decent drama if it would've concentrated on closely on that professor's crisis of faith and clearly how he hasn't processed death of his loved one properly. His rage against the heavens could've been shown as a tragedy that finally ends up driving him into a corner, where the college gives him ultimatum like "we understand what you're going trough, but your behavior is entirely inappropriate and against our values. You need to stop, or we will be forced to take action." Then he had to choose whether this all really is worth it. But instead, we got this.
I got so many of those dumbass texts because of that movie. I responded to all of them with “you can’t kill what doesn’t exist”. Pretty sure a handful of people blocked my number after that
Nope because all the millennial and zoomer Christians were raised by the crazy boomer Christians that would only let them watch this kind of stuff and only when they became independent could they see real quality and could see what they were missing. Or, thanks to the internet, they snuck under their parents and watched/read quality things, and learnt on their own, eithout probing, what things really were and so they grew up knowing better than the crazy obsessiveness of their parents. Though, there are still some that are the same as their parents were. Especially in the plains/heartland/southern states.
@@pyraffin When I was a child, I was terrified that I would burn forever if I saw "worldly things" on TV, because my parents taught me so. Then I put aside childish things lol
As a zoomer Christian i hate this type of stuff it makes us look worse. I'm glad my parents weren't strict at all and didn't force Christianity onto me.
I think it takes getting out of the "Christian bubble" to be able to look at Christian content more critically. Growing up, I thought listening to songs with curse words and liking movies and films with more adult themes (not just sexual) would make me a bad christian. It wasn't until I was older that I realized that I was raised on believing in God for fear of hell...
what is it with Christians saying "people of faith" when they mean Christians? like "people of faith" encompasses Muslims, Jewish people, Hindus, pagans, Buddhists, those who practice indigenous spiritualities, but apparently to them you can only have faith if you believe in Jebus.
@BLANK SLATE understandable have a good day. Also "indigenous" religions arent that different from Christianity and stuff. Heck it's actually pretty similar
My grandma is a Christian and she used to give my: trans cousin (she even used the right pronouns and didnt refere to them by their dead name) and my gay uncle (he has a different mom). A place to stay. She didn't reprimand them, she didn't try to "make them straight" she just accepted them. To me, she was an actual Christian, who just loved everyone and didn't judge them for who they were. To me, she was the reason I am an agnostic-Christian.
Imagine being that one girl with an extremely Christian mom and she makes you get rid of Netflix and gets Pure Flix. But all the movies on they are cheap and low budget. Oh wait, that's me
I thank God that my mother got Disney + as well as pure flix and kept our Netflix subscription....we don't even use it that much, since she doesn't have a problem with unchristian shows unless they have overly explicit sex.
10:50 I'm muslim and i went to a baptist school in Mississippi/Alabama. Heck, even my grandfather was close friends with the local Priest in the area. I've read both the Qur'an and some of the bible and found many correlations. Most of the Christians I've interacted with have been kind and civil, and have never tried to change my faith. Movies like these written by non-muslims or people with no actual knowledge on muslims, always write muslim characters as oppressed and hating their faith, which is a huge turn-off. Hopefully they'll be able to see that these two faiths, aren't so different.
I went to a Baptist university in Texas, and one of the first friends I made there was a Muslim girl. One of my professors assigned us to go attend a religious service of a faith or denomination that wasn't ours & write an essay about it, so I went with her to her mosque and it was a wonderful experience. I was so grateful to my professor for making me step out of my bubble so I could see just how similar my friend's faith and mine really were. Sadly that professor later got fired from the school when it was taken over by more "Pureflix"-type Christians. :-(
There is a huge difference…followers of Christ believe that Jesus is God …and that He took human flesh and came on the Earth to die for the sins of the world, so that the relationship between humans and God could be restored…of course humans have the free will to choose if they want to believe in Jesus and change their lives…In other religions Jesus is just a prophet
Back when I was in the church, we were actually taught, explicitly, that if you’re not a Christian, you must not have a moral compass. If you don’t love Christ, then you don’t know what love is. I’m out of it now and healing from various other damages, thank god, but this is the stuff I was taught. I’m so glad it seems like not all Christians receive that type of bullshit, but they definitely exist and they’re absolutely awful.
Hello umm I’m sorry that you had that kind of experience in the church I personally am catholic but it’s kinda that same thing Um I go to church evrey Sunday to hear the works of God now you may not ever trust this faith again but can you pleas just go to a Catholic Church and try to listen to what they are saying because I may be young in my faith but I know one thing that what I hear at church is the most beautiful thing ever if you truly listen you just might hear a call I’m not trying to preacher you into any thing but ya know have a good day
There was a comment that isn't there anymore; Idk if it's TH-cam being shitty, but if that person is around--I couldn't see your entire comment. Just the first few sentences saying that the Catholic church has a huge ring of pedophilia and not to get involved in it. I just wanted to thank you for your concern and for commenting to try and prevent me from getting into it. Not to worry; many of my studies push me gently toward atheism, and if I ever head toward religion again for any reason, it certainly won't be toward any Abrahamic faiths. I don't know what else you said, but thanks. (To Kira, thank you for your concern as well, and I'm sorry to shut you down, but I don't think I'll try out any such churches.)
Hannah Bryan that’s perfectly fine your are entitled to your own opinion sorry if you felt like I was pressuring you into thinking that way and I’m sorry you had that experience in the church have a nice night and stay safe in this crazy world
Kira Kunkel, oh you did not come across as pressuring me at all! I could tell you care a lot, and again, thanks for thinking of me. I’ve just been too jaded. You stay safe as well 💙
others do though, you can claim things or not for yourself but a significant amount of ppl who also call themselves christians do; you dont speak for everyone so calm down with the royal ‘we’
Well, it isn't being run by Hindus and Muslims is it? Though no doubt they have bad religious programming of their own. I'm glad if you're an exception, but I've never heard of someone getting up in church or giving a sermon against Pureflix. Not one time. I haven't heard one religious leader say: we can do better; we demand better. There's a couple people I know of on YT who put themselves out there, and that's it. So what can I conclude but the majority of Christians support it in their hearts?
“Vegetarianism is a step away from a world without pastors or panties” I read that somewhere and thought it was the most hilarious statement I’ve read in years.
@Kali Southpaw - I have no clue, but I just realized I'm a veg and I hate underwear. Maybe it's a gas thing, we need less barriers to let the air escape or something lol. I don't even have bad gas, but some vegheads do. Who knows?!
God is so forgiving that if he really wants you to go to heaven, he'll make sure that when you get hit by a car, you'll live _juuust long enough_ for the pastor he's arranged to be nearby to convert you. He won't do something super crazy like help you survive the accident though. That's too much.
Fun fact: whilst in a Christian middle school, my friend group thought ‘gods not dead’ was so stupid ( we were forced to watch it in class) that one of my friends made joke gay fan fiction between the college professor and the main character....
@@luuuuux_ unfortunately her and I haven’t been friends for years and I have no idea if she posted / deleted it off Wattpad. I even tried searching it and yielded no results :((
Even when I was still Catholic, I disliked the whole “there is no morality without God” argument. You’re claiming to argue from a position of moral superiority, but then say that the only thing standing between you and a life of crime is the belief in a deity. And I’m the one who is immoral for being Agnostic? Mega oof.
“there is no morality without God” is not the same as “there is no morality without belief in God existence”. Same difference as between "there are no cars without mechanical engineers" vs "there are no cars without belief that mechanical engineers exist".
@@BenTomlinson1994 Religious people use their religion to justify and excuse being fearful and acting in an immoral fashion. But I like the way you refer to Religion losing its "clutches" on our society. Well put! I prefer to stay out of its clutches.
The only valid Christian films are Prince of Egypt, Veggie Tales and probably Passion of the Christ. Silence, Hacksaw Ridge and Last Temptation of Christ
Prince of Egypt is one of the best films ever made, and certainly a top five great film in regards to the animation genre. It's so dark and beautiful and the music is phenomenal*
if you don't mind me asking when u was that u didn't feel comforted... was it that u didn't feel any comfort from The Lord or from church people? either way i do hope you'll know one day how much He truly loves you ... shalom
@@AP-jr2kt You missunderstood what Barbossa said. To translate his joke: His reason for being an atheist isn't that he hasn't found evidence or wasn't comforted, but Pure Flix existing.
Secular humanism: "secular" just means not affiliated with any specific religion. Secular basically just means not religious. Humanism is basically just a moral system that revolves around what does the least harm to humans being moral. It's an odd term, but not nearly as pretentious as it first sounds. Basically boils down to morality without religion.
@@anhaaraahmed3597 👏🏻 Yep pretty much Its, i don't believe theres any evidence of a god, but i also love and care about others and want to do good and be good (and I don't need the perceived existence of a god or teachings of a religion to do so).
Humanism and organizations related to it focus on human rights, especially those of whom religion persecutes or discriminates against (gays, minorities, women, outside cultures, apostates, etc)
Y'all are all missing an important piece of information here. "Secular humanism," in this particular brand of Christianity, is a catch-all codeword for: liberals, hippies, communists, New-Agers, atheists, people who have sex in non-God approved ways, vegetarians, and/or all of the above (somehow). Trust me, I know, I grew up in a household where the term was used in that way. I suspect it's something that started in the 80s and is specific to American conservative culture-war evangelicals.
My ultra religious Uncle tried to say something about my Nana enjoying Lucifer. She turned to him and told him she would watch whatever the hell she wanted to. I laugh every time we talk about that story.
"What happened here tonight, is a cause for CELEBRATION!" Oh well, someone just got slammed by a car and dying, don't call paramedics, call a PASTOR and the Let's Celebrate! I... I just can't..
If god exists . . . all of this is according to his plan. Thats the best part about an omniscient god who created everything . . . all credit belongs to him. Rape? Murder? Theft? Pedophilia? War? Famine? Disease? All gifts from the almighty himself.
I’m agnostic and I went to church once and they kept going on about how athiests are so bad and how they don’t understand how athiests live with themselves and them wishing bad things on people and how they knew that god would punish people in horrible ways. Like that’s... don’t wish ill on people???
Damn as an agnostic that was raised around atheists and liberal Christians this was not my experience at all, but now hearing these horror stories make me realize how lucky I am
Imagine getting hit by a car, on the verge of death, lying in the pouring wet street and the only people around to help are crazy people that make you change your beliefes.
As a Christian myself. The only Christian films I like (and are tolerable) are: The Passion of the Christ, Soul Surfer, Hacksaw Ridge, Silence, and Prince of Egypt. The Chronicles of Narnia films and books are also pretty good imo for what they are. Also VeggieTales.
Magnitude Reviews this might not count but Lord of the Rings is a trilogy that many Christians love, I’m not a Christian but I grew up with those movies
Dom the Prince of Egypt is about the story of Moses and how he freed the Hebrews with the help of God, ya know he parted the ocean, got the 10 commandments and all that. Veggie Tales I've never watched it but I know for a fact it's a show that talks about religion
@@megamoviez Depends on the Christian. Some are better than others. Jehovah's witnesses...terrifying as hell for example. Quakers, kinda cool but 95% they don't really exist. Like Australia.
Depends on which version of Christ you're talking about. If it's Jesus the good moral teacher, then I applaud it. If it's Christ the judge who will cast you into eternal judgment for not believing in him, then I denounce him.
The god/morality thing always bugs me. From my perspective, anyone who questions the morality of non-religious people is basically admitting they need a giant sword hanging over them in order to toe the line and be a good (or at least not bad) person. It's cringey that they never realize how much they're outing themselves.
In middle school, God's Not Dead was my best friends' favorite movie. I, being an atheist from an atheist family, had to deal with my two best friends telling me every day how terrible I am and how terrible my family is for existing and taking away their right to be Christian. I never once tried to convert them. They made me go to church in order to be their friend, and I did it. My first time at my friend's church, we played hide and seek and they locked me in a closet for an hour. But they were my only friends and I didn't think it was that bad at the time, so I just dealt with it. I realized when I got to high school which was in a bigger school district where I made new friends that basically every aspect of my relationship with my middle school friends was manipulative and abusive. Suffice it to say, God's Not Dead holds a lot of bad meaning for me. Though I do still have a kinda fun memory of watching it with my dad in middle school and him getting drunk and us making fun of how awful and stupid the movie is. Probably the most hurtful part was that my friends believed a movie version of what an atheist is over the person that they had known since they were five years old. That movie made them believe it was okay and justified to abuse me. They did a lot of other manipulative and abuse stuff, but that movie played a big factor in the shift from being good friends to being abusive. Anyway, if you read this, thanks for listening. I just kinda needed to vent a bit
@Zoe Durand Wow... Holy $h!t! Ma'am, I hope this entire comment is fabrication. Mainly because as a Christian when I was growing up, I heard how the media influenced kids. I didn't believe it, but by the time I was in my teens I understood what was being said:"kids are impressionable and dumb, so trust us. We know what's best." But my point is, if you're story is legit, true, it shows that at least religious media can influence impressionable children negatively... Not that I'm surprised...
@@DemonicRemption I really wish my story weren't true. And you're right, it really does say a lot about the power that media can have on children. And sometimes kids grow out of those ideas and sometimes they do not. One of my middle school friends realized what she had done to me and realized that she had been in the wrong. She has since become much more accepting of me and others. She is a still very Christian, but she doesn't mind that I'm not. Sadly, the other friend was never able to see that, and the last time I talked to her, which was a year ago, she still thought me and my whole family was disgusting for not being religious. And while me and one of my old friends were able reconcile everything, not every kid will get that. There are other kids being influenced by media like this and hurting their classmates and neighbors and fellow kids. The kids who are being influenced could end up very much internalizing that mentality, and even if they manage to escape that mentality, they could cause real damage to the kid that their hate was directed toward. I am all for having movies to express religion, but it is problematic when those movies inspire hate and misinformation. Please be kind out there.
I'm sorry that happened to you, and glad you got better friends when you grew up. Hopefully they grew out of it eventually. Sometimes everyone needs to vent.
10:35 Wait, so an atheist makes his wife serve at table, aka perform the traditional female duty, not to mention that the atheist is the one who stays in a marriage with a woman he doesn't respect and probably doesn't love? Do the filmmakers believe that atheists are more likely to do both of those things than Christians?
meg t thanks lol but no i just remember seeing the Gods Not Dead posters at my high school and thinking “wow are they gonna follow this kid around with a doc crew as he proves gods not dead”
As a kid, I took from this movie a message about a person standing up for his beliefs and not being swayed by societal pressures (student scenes), and that it's okay to believe in different religions (Muslim family scenes), and that people are ultimately redeemable (prof ending). As an adult, I realized that this movie is so biased against anyone that is non-Christian, and while I still hold the messages from above to heart, this just reminds me how damned hypocritical some Christians can be.
Same, just that now I see it as christians playing the victim card, when in the past they have been extremly harmful to others (btw, i don't hate christians, I just hate people forcing their belives on to others and punishing them if they don't follow their rules)
Yeah same. I’m very skeptical of most Christian movies because they all seem to just be intellectual-circle-jerk ‘we’re so much more correct and better than other religions’ like.... ok yes it’s ok to believe the Bible is correct, but I wish these filmmakers actually put real passion and love into their work instead of this shallow holier than thou garbage. Christian media peaked with veggietales.
That's exactly what Dennis Prager tried to argue, that if God doesn't exist then murder isn't wrong. Pretty much everyone and their brother told him that without possibility of afterlife, murder is in fact now worse.
As someone with muslim grandparents and a lot of muslim relatives, this movie makes me incredibly upset. Hijabs are always a choice, there are muslims who don’t wear them. On top of that my grandparents have an atheist daughter (aka my mom) and literally could not care less, and are absolutely never condescending or talk down to her. As a lesbian, when I came out to them despite being muslim they were incredibly supportive and will likely be coming to my wedding. Please don’t get the wrong idea about muslims, they are regular people with a regular religion just like everyone else.
It depends on where you/you're family is from. "Hijabs are always a choice" is simply Not the truth and truly no offence but your family or those muslim families you know or know about are not the measure.
Islam is certainly not a normal religion and muslins that act the way you describe are not following Islam , the Koran says that homosexuals must be killed and that nonbelievers must eventually be killed if they won’t convert , but we have folks that claim to be Christian and don’t believe the Bible so…
@The Kings Child I'm not completely sure about this, but I have heard that it is not hijab if it's not worn by choice, if it's not by choice it's just a piece of fabric.
I saw "God's Not Dead" at the National Convention of American Atheists in Memphis Tennessee. What made it great was that there were a thousand atheists in the audience and on-stage were Trace Beaulieu and Frank Conniff riffing on the movie just like the always did on their show, Mystery Science Theater 3000. I've also attended a few of the annual conferences for the American Humanist Association. They were very posh events! I met a few celebrities there.
W o a h. Non Christians? In-....in Tennessee? Please, tell me where I can find these people, bc I am constantly surrounded by Christians that wanna shove their Christianity down my gullet at all moments. (Im exaggerating, obviously, but its not a good feeling to know that literally anyone could look down at you if they knew you werent Christian. Low-key sucks.)
I'm a pastor's grandson and every now and then I give a sermon at the church. One sunday I actually criticized this movie for its unrealistic portrayal of both christians and atheists and the persecution the movie depicted, but it wasn't the focus, I was actually talking about my interpretation of Star Wars and how I could find parallels to the christian faith and why it was actually better to watch it instead of God's Not Dead. Everyone was blown away, some said to me they'd never thought of movies like that, some never even saw Star Wars before and now they wanted to. Even though it hurts to hear this criticism to christian media, I'll never say it's wrong or that it doesn't deserve it. God deserves better, I've always been taught that everything I do, I should do it as if I was doing it for God, this means I should always do it with love and give the BEST OF ME. I'm also a filmmaking graduate and I can tell you (even though it's pretty obvious I don't even need to) that these movies are not the best a filmmaker can do in any way. David A. R. White is seriously the Tommy Wiseau of christian media.
I have long felt that there needs to be better Christian media than stuff like God's Not Dead. I am not religious by any means, but I do like some Christian media when it's well presented (I love stuff like VeggieTales and Prince of Egypt, and I also love Christian metal bands like Underoath, August Burns Red, and Demon Hunter). It's kind of sad when I find deeper and better presented religious meanings in films like Jacob's Ladder, that aren't even intended to be religious films, than actual religious films.
Right on! And yes, God's Not Dead isn't a good movie. I watched that movie a few days before I went to college. After being in college for a few years, I can say that I've been around people, even made some friends who aren't Christians, and man, has this movie made a mountain out of a mole hill.
You're one of the good ones. Keep spreading your wisdom, because there are a lot of crazy people out there who are missing the "love" part of Christian teaching. Need a Pastor like you around these parts.
The strawmanning "argument" they made about how being born gay doesn't make it right, could easily backfire with "i was born female, but that doesn't mean it's right". And then, obviously, they'll try to counter with "God doesn't make mistakes" or something like that, which can then be replied with "then how could being 'made' gay be wrong if He doesn't make mistakes?" And that's not even going into their claims that people are born adulterers and that they are considering being gay in the same realm as cheating on a significant other. I'm not touching on the bullshit that is their stupid "sex before marriage"/fornication ideology.
Man, at my church when I was a kid, the hypocrisy was even worse. We had a Deacon who, during a prayer at Bible Camp, said that God doesn't accept homosexuality, it's wrong and their souls were essentially forfeit. He said all of this unironically while standing next to his (much younger) new wife, with whom he had cheated on his first wife with. In fact, when I posted on Facebook about love being love, he quoted verse to me, calling it a sin and referencing how the bible said it was wrong, to which I replied, 'Doesn't the bible also say that about adultery?' So he never replied and I deleted him and the majority of my old church members from my Facebook, because fuck that!
If a philosophy teacher took that angle on "God is dead", I'd nope out of there like a F1 car. That's not how Nietzsche works. They clearly don't know anything about philosophy. The "and we killed him" part of the sentence is kind of important.
Marco Meijer YES! Nietzsche was not some atheist icon everyone claims him to be! He said that when he was grief stricken! I’m pretty sure philosophy teachers let you believe what you want cause they know nobody can actually prove or disprove the existence of a deity.
Also, if he was an atheist to that degree, he wouldn't even believe in god, so how can you hate someone that doesn't exist, and how can someone that doesn't exist be dead? It's more of the idea where atheists are only atheists because they had a bad life and blame god for it, when that's not true.
Idk anymore2.0 actually that’s like the “gotcha” question of the movie the boy goes “how can you hate someone that doesn’t exist” but you’re right it really does feel like propaganda now that you mention it like telling kids “atheists are sad because they don’t have God”
I've been vegetarian/vegan almost all my life. According to some of the many (MANY!) lectures I've sat through, apparently not eating meat is an "offense to God." I don't understand why that's a thing, but it's a thing!
I was told animals didn't have souls so we could eat them when I asked if it was bad as a kid. I don't think I got the "offense to God" lecture but it's been a while, my brain deleted all that rhetoric when I left Christianity. Maybe it has something to do with animal sacrifice? Lots of gods like animal sacrifices.
Probably a misunderstanding of the Acts 10 story where Peter had a vision and refused to eat the "unclean" animals bc of the old testament rules and regulations and then God was like "no longer consider as unholy anything that I have made clean" and then it turned out that vision was to prepare him for the "gentile" man that he was about to meet, and the whole moral was don't discriminate against or refuse to associate with people of different races or backgrounds but I guess some people could just read the one part and be like "God says all meat is good!"
@@chloeruano7303 To be fair, God did also say that. It's just that he didn't say all meat is good, he said all *food* is good. Christ said that it isn't what goes inside you, but what comes out of you that matters, in almost those exact words.
That's so funny to me, because I was raised Seventh-Day Adventist, and many people in the church are strict vegetarians, because of the fact that animals weren't eaten in Eden and SDA has a big thing for health. I just found it amusing that we were both apparently raised in the same religion but were taught opposite beliefs on such a random subject.
"I was born wanting to commit adultery and that's bad therefore being gay is bad" two responses that pop in my head right away. "I was born wanting to commit adultery and that's bad and I was born a human therefore that is bad." Also you can explain WHY committing adultery is bad. But you cannot explain WHY being gay is bad.
Yes. You can choose not to commit adultery, it's your own will and you can deny it. But you cannot deny what you find attractive, because the other just simply isn't what you find attractive like the same sex is to straight people. Lets not forget homosexuals can still deny adultery, as well. It doesn't matter the sexuality, it's your will of whether you commit adultery with it or not and those two things are not comparable.
Adultery is a really dumb example anyway since cheating on someone isn't a sexuality 🙄 If we had to find an example, I'd go with something like pedophilia. Are people with these kinds of thoughts at fault for their desires? No, they were either born or made experiences growing up that twisted their sexuality this way, they have no control or choice in the matter of what they like. What they do however have control over, is if they ACT on these desires or not. Many countries also offer voluntarily preventive custody to pedophiles who think they won't have the self-control to not act upon their desires, and so on. So far, that is in line with the movie (and arguably a better example than adultery) - just because you have an urge doesn't mean you have to act upon it. But now the important question is - is there a *reason* not to act upon it? In case of pedophilia the answer is a very clear YES: it would involve someone who is unable to consent due to their lack of maturity, and it is known to cause physical and mental trauma too. But is there a reason not to have homosexual relationships? No there isn't. It involves two consenting adults and neither of them is victimized by it. Any potential emotional or physical dangers are caused by the lack of acceptance in some societies, *not* by anything that is an inherent part of a same-sex relationship.
It's just an issue of consent. The two people in that relationship consented to a monogamous relationship and one partner one-sidedly broke that consent. This is why open relationships, poly relationships, and three(or more)somes aren't adultery - it was fully consented too.
A few years ago I was in a class in highschool and there were a few people discussing God's Not Dead and one of the guys (who was kind of known to be abnormally religious, which is saying a LOT since I live in Alabama) said something along the lines of "the main thing that I don't like about the movie is that it only proves the existence of A God, not the Catholic God" and I just thought "really? THAT was your main problem?" Since I had had the misfortune of having seen the movie prior to this
@@ChrisMaxfieldActs it's entirely possible that he was a different denomination. To be honest I don't really know the differences between denominations, and it was several year ago that this happened (5 years I think), so I'm kinda just guessing when I say "Catholic" in the original comment
will24556 Until around the 1960’s Catholicism was hated by people like the KKK as much as black people and Jews. When JFK ran for president there was a lot of talk about if a Catholic could overcome the religious bigotry so many Americans still had. Until that point every US president was a Protestant Christian.
Roasting PureFlix while dressed moderately, no cursing, no eye rolls. CinemaSins: ..,at this point, why didn't Amanda just break out her Light Saber and uhh ....to beat uhh a dead horse. Yeah, that's it. Whoops, maybe I confused CS with The Critical Drinker. Lol
"God has left you in pain for a little bit longer so can you summit to him." Me who has read a lot of... certain... fanfics: Oh- oh no. Mind: haha, enjoy this image.
Kween Konfusion All kinds of fanfics. Go to pretty much any fanfic site and any sufficiently large fandom, and, well... let’s just say, you do NOT want to read these at work. And don’t read them if you are younger than, say, 14. I don’t want to assume your age, so I apologize if you’re an adult and I came off as condescending.
Just want to throw this out here: a number of Christians do believe in evolution, and that the first three chapters of Genesis may have been more allegorical than literal (for instance, the seven "days" of creation may have been periods of time where things were formed, not so much actual 24-hour days). The whole thing with the veganism? It's weird Christians stereotyping non-Christians. It's real dumb. I cringe so hard when I see things like this because this is so far from what I believe as a Christian and it truly does not represent what I or a number of us actually stand for. Also, literally all of my atheist friends would be horrified by the way that professor was treating his wife. Bad representation.
What you said in the beginning about the "days" being periods is something many Jews believe as well. Didn't know any Christians believed it so that's cool.
@@MadAliceInWonderland I didn't know Jewish people believed that too, cool learn! I feel that most younger generation religious people are not dead set on religious texts being absolutely true to word. I'll admit I dont know much about the Jewish faith and their texts, but the bible is, in many ways, poetry. I dont think it should be taken as literally.
Margaret Crowell I had a creationist biology text book as a teen that mentioned that, but ultimately disagreed (as do I, you really can’t deny the similarities between humans and other primates and mammals in general).
@SusanSnapDragon Thank you for this. These movies don't represent Christians just as much as they don't represent non-Christians. Makes me so sad to think that people actually internalize the "teachings" of these kinds of movies where everyone that does not conform to the religious standard is a bad person, and that those who do conform, think that as well. To me, it's about if the person is honest and loving, not about the religion they follow. So, good point showing, yet again, that people of the same religious groups have differences in opinions and that the known Christian media does not represent all of you. Have a good one!
@@jfat4 I would say the vast majority of Jewish people at least do not take the Torah as being literal and do believe in science. I can't really speak for Orthodox or Haredi Jews. A huge part of Rabbinic Judaism, which I think is the vast majority, is about stories, analysis, and analysis through storytelling (Midrash), trying to find an understanding of metaphor, practice, history, language..., which is kind of a form of literary criticism imho (though I study writing and Jewish Studies, so that's my bias). I'm a Conservative Jew and I think you would be hard pressed to find a Biblical literalist among Conservative, Reform, or Reconstructionist Jews. One of the Rabbis at my synagogue has a degree in neuroscience and probably a large section of our community has similar (my Dad has a PhD in biology) Sorry for the essay; I just got my Bachelor's in writing and Jewish Studies and this is my jam 😁
The comments reminded of that one time where I was so low and at rock bottom. I was in such depressive mood for so long and I never wanted to end my life so bad. Then, I decided to open up to my mom (strict christian) and she said god made me this way and I should be thankful. After that, I officially became an atheist and I've never felt so alive and well.
That scene when the pastor just let the professor die has been bugging me for my entire life. Now watching this, I would think that if Jesus was there he would be like "Yo, just call 911, he's DYING! There's no time for asking him that, just call the ambulance dammit!". It's so fustrating to see that the pastor just let him die!!!
ikr? like, following the movie's logic: if the professor was dying because of a reason, the pastor was _there_ because of a reason to! and i don't think he did what God wanted him to.
It's just a death boner, they want to show someone that isn't a Christian suffering because deep down the kind of people who watch that kind of media would be pretty cool with a genocide of all non-Christians
Same, as someone who is a Christian I would call the ambulance, and then stay with the person and pray for them. Badgering the poor man and making him expend energy in talking would be cruel.
That seems like a stupid plothole to me because it sounds like the Christian character didn't care. It'd make more sense to call 911 but they couldn't save him, it sounds too heavy-handed and preachy and as a Christian, I don't watch Christian movies because they tend to have really bad writing in them.
Christian here: I recently watched "God's Not Dead" and it was awful. Christian TH-cam channel "Capturing Christianity" recently did a video harshly criticizing the film. Josh Keefe did a TH-cam video a few years back on why Christian movies are awful (though there are some exceptions) that was informative on the topic.
I'll check it out. I'm a Christian Ministry Major and since following film the past few years, I've come to realize these movies are waaay worse then I thought. I hope better film makers make independent faith films that are far better in the future
@@OutsiderAus10 _Yeah, pro tip to the creators of God's Not Dead from a non-Christian: If you want to make a Christian film that's centered around trying to convert people to your religion, don't depict all the non-believers in the film as inherently amoral evil despicable motherfuckers who are incapable of love._ That's one reason why I thought "Case for Christ" was a lot better. Granted, that movie probably wouldn't convert legions of atheists either, but the atheists were at least decent humans and not cardboard caricatures.
Ah, God's Not Dead, the movie I only know exists because the director's relative was my substitute teacher once. "My relative directed God's Not Dead, you guys should watch it!" The entire class's mind: "No. I don't think I will."
Oh hell yeah. I'm so on board with you roasting Christian Netflix. Ever since I've heard of it, I've really been wanting literally anyone to talk about it, couldn't have been happier that it's you doing it.
I've actually been in that situation with blood poring down my face and some Christian asking me to affirm my belief in God and in a dazed shock that I was in would have agreed that the world was made out of spaghetti its upsetting later to realize how someone might take advantage of the state of mind of a person in a terrible accident
Pureflix adapting Little Women is so ironic due to the fact that Louisa May was probably gay,not that they would do any research on a book before adapting it though 😂
I was hella religious growing up but every time my church youth group played these types of movies I would just go to the restroom for half the runtime because it was pure agony. Legit the only good Christian content that I would voluntarily watch is Veggietales.
I once watched this really awful movie with my youth group that was supposed to be a "comedy" called "Inspired Guns", which was about mobsters and missionaries. It wasn't preachy or anything - just so boring!
@@edgarvalles5224 Jesus and Christianity have nothing to do with PRINCE OF EGYPT. It's Jewish entertainment made largely by Jews. It's a great movie, but it's not Christian, and it's not accurate historically.
@@ChrisMaxfieldActs There are records proving that the Hebrews were enslaved by Egyptians.Also as a Christian, we also believe in the story have it in the Bible and have Moses as a prophet soooo it's Christian and Jewish. Not to mention jews and christians basically believe in the same God just approache it in a different way.
Ann M From what I know, there was no evidence that Hebrews were enslaved by Egyptians. There were no seen trace or proof that they were even there in the first place, last time I heard. Can you send a link?
I remember when I was 17 I had just started my first job at a movie theater and on my very first shift this lady came into my theater and started screaming at my managers and I about why we had Kung Fu Panda 3 and not God's Not Dead 2. When we don't pick the movies we get! ... You always remember your first Karen. 😂
@@luthientinuviel3883 The preaching to the choir movies aren't my thing, I can read the Bible and feel more encouraged than watching a badly written Christian movie.
The irony is that God's Not Dead 3 is somewhat decent. It has actual three-dimensional characters (both christians and atheists), good arguments both for and against the faith, and a peaceful resolution between both sides. Which, of course, means it was hated by the fans of the first two
The original idea of PureFlix actually was pretty good. They originally were broadcasting mainstream movies, edited to remove content certain audiences didn't want to see. I considered getting it so my kids could watch certain movies where there are just a few moments that are too adult for them. And I'm an atheist who os pretty open talking to my kids about difficult topics. But that model, well, it turned out to be a massive copyright violation. At least the way they did it. And they lacked the technology to do it in a different way (which still may have been a copyright violation). So now, they have been reduced to this.
Yeah the original PureFlix was a good thing. Removing the curse words and sex scenes from popular movies so families could enjoy them together! My parents wanted to get it for our family but it was pretty pricey, at $40 a month
@@anlumo1 Yeah, but they can't compete with other streaming services if they pay that license fee. They were trying to, if memory serves, hold physical DVDs, 1 for each person watching at a time, and pay the license fee for regular rentals. But they weren't directly serving the DVDs with software that edited the stream on the user end. That MIGHT have been legal (still highly questionable, and a similar case involving antenna was found to be illegal). Rather, they edited the content ahead of time and then served the edited version. They did not have a license that allowed them to do that. I believe it went all the way to the Supreme Court a few years ago.
“God is Not Dead: Remember that annoying chain email your religious aunt sent you back in the early 2000s about that college freshman totally pwning that arrogant atheist professor in front of the whole class with the blind watchmaker argument, and then you find out that student was Einstein? We made it into a movie!”
So these movies are just the Christian version of that New Warriors comic Marvel is making. Whether you're Christian, atheist, or a different religion, you can still say this shit looks stupid.
Yeah, fair comparison. I would have said "at least they didn't have characters named snowflake and safe space" but then I remembered pureflix has a character literally called "bibleman" who defeats people not with his fists, but with the word of god. 🙄
@@Sapieteuthid seriously?! What the hell happened to our 90s legends. Herc is in crazy religious movies. Xena was arrested for Greenpeace protesting (although her in Ash vs Evil Dead brought back her badass side)
I am a Christian, but it's really frustrating when there is poor representation through terrible Christian movies like this. Most of the plots are pretty bad and just present the message in a pretty terrible way. Could you please review "I'm in Love with a Church Girl" Really bad movie from Netflix, but it has Ja Rule...
As a bisexual Christian, it hurts that these are the representations that lead to people hating Christianity. And that many of these people actually exist. LGBTQ+ Community is fine, other religions are fine, everyone needs to chill out. Also, dear Hollywood, stop the stereotypes. It’s unhealthy. I Can Only Imagine, Grace Unplugged, and Secretariat are much better representations of Christian faith. But The Prince of Egypt is a MASTERPIECE.
Ohh I loved the Prince of Egypt! But it isn't technically about the Christian faith or even about Christian people... it's the story about Moses and the Hebrew people, which is an essential part of the Jewish faith. Obviously the story is in the Bible (and the Quran) too and it is significant to people of all three of those major religions, but Jesus hadn't even been born yet during the events of the movie.
@@pendragonianlaw Oh, I know. lmao. Just had to say it was a masterpiece. I guess I wasn't clear enough that that was a completely unrelated add on. 😂 But, yes, I’m well aware of that and wasn't sure whether or not I should clarify that factoid. Thanks for bringing it to my attention! :)
Hey so I hate to break it to you. A. Christianity is bullshit (I can prove every sect wrong except for the predestination ones) B. The scripture you consider the word of God, is pretty homophobic as fuck. I get that god is a very comfortable concept, and if you need it . . thats totally cool. But please be aware that it's objectively nonsense.
@@NymbusCumulo928 Get a fkn grip and stop projecting your nonsense dude/tte. It's only "objectively nonsense" to extremely ignorant people who swallow misinformation.
I went to catholic school and had a priest as a teacher. He made us watch "God is not dead" just so he could tell us how horrible it is and how much he feels offended as a christian lol
Yaas
Praise that priest lmao.
OOF-
Best priest
And this is an example of religion that isn't toxic!
How can you skip over the best scene from God's Not Dead?
"I have cancer..."
"Couldn't this have waited until tomorrow?"
*laughs hysterically* what?
they should've just made a dark comedy, that's hilarious
For those who don’t know. It’s when the reporter tells her boyfriend during a fancy date that she had been diagnosed and he freaking dumped her.
I don't love Johnny.
@@heathermoriah4791 oh my god lol
Man I hate movies like this. And that's from the perspective of a Christian. They're condescending, belittling, and only serve as a means for "Christians" to feel better about themselves. It doesn't help that they're almost always written badly, too. They make us look bad, as if we needed any help with that
I feel the same way about Hallmark Movies. They useed to be good movies. Now they suck and you know what's going to happen before it does.
*As if we needed any help for that* 😂
As a Christian the only good Christian media I've seen is veggie tales
The reason I find these Christian movies suck is because they’re just made to make Christians feel good about themselves and to keep them from being a part of the rest of the world. My biggest issue with Christian music, movies etc, is that Christian artists insist on making Christian only content. As a devout Catholic, I’m currently minoring in Shakespeare/Performance at my university. We did Macbeth last year and this year we’re doing Hamlet. You can be a Christian and also make art that everyone can enjoy.
Elizabeth Levesque I’m also a catholic majoring in theatre! I’ve always had trouble digesting Christian media, since I feel it’s extremely limiting. One can see God in beauty and art, in the struggles of the human condition and that’s all around us, not in this watered down propagandist content!
The prof is a genius because he managed to force a student to teach for the majority of the semester while he just sat back and relaxed.
Finally, someone else with a college education . . .
He accidentally taught a Debate class, but only to one kid.
Most people mocking portuguese:
"Yall are spanish" / "is Portugal in spain?"
Pure flix:
M E X I C O
Watching that scene has layers of racism and xenophobia, and this is coming from a son of an immigrant mom from Ecuador.
Chale
Didn't know Mexico, Spain and Portugal could have a common enemy but there you go.
Geographically speaking, Portugal is part of Spain. Politically they're indipendent, of course.
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Don't let anyone from Portugal know I've said that.
@@NeroCM Geographically the area is called Iberia.
surely they missed an opportunity here to call it cruci-flix
andyg3 oooooohhh.....oh this wins
* slow clap *
Hahahahaha this is hilarious
😆😆😆
Genius!
Normal Philosophy professor: “First, we’re gonna go over the syllabus.”
This Philosophy professor: “LETS ALL START BY AGREEING WITH NIETZSCHE!”
But he doesn't even use Nietzche to make any arguments! Everything stems from some emotional tragedy that he had, and this is not how Atheists arrive to their suspension of belief. At best, this "Philopseudophy" Professor is a Misotheist (God-hating). In order to hate God, you'd have to believe in God's existence in the first place. It's silly to project this unto Atheists. It'd be equivalent to anybody over the age of 8 saying "I hate Unicorns" or "I hate Santa". It's also silly when Theists threaten Atheists that they'll go to hell, when hell is viewed as an imaginary place to them. Another funny one is when Theists warn Atheists that the devil is manipulating them, which reminds me of that meme: "Uhh if I don't believe in your Sky Daddy, why would I believe in your Ground Troll?".
On high school I had one professor, openly believer of "Marx", and he taught us Nietzsche all year. Things are different outside the US. Sadly they're not better either
Let’s all start with a high schooler’s understanding of why Nietzche was saying “God is Dead” and no elaborating in any way on the fact that the writing this is from is actually calling out his Atheist contemporaries.
Ngl, my philosophy professor in college was kinda the same way. His goal was to stimulate conversation though, not to be a standin for richard dawkins.
tbh that was not even Nietzsche's point, by saying that "God is Dead" he symbolized that a new era came where the church no longer had all the power and people were free to be who they wanted to be, not that Christians shouldn't exist or smth
i love when christians wildly misinterpret a nietzsche quote to the point that they need to make a whole movie about it.
What quote was misinterpreted?
@@brandonkerr93 "God is dead. God remains dead. And we have killed him. How shall we comfort ourselves, the murderers of all murderers"
What Nietzsche meant by this is that basically all moral and ethical norms and rules we have (like you shouldn't kill and you shouldn't steal) all come from religion. Specifically Christianity for us Europeans/Americans. You can't really say why we have these norms or why they are important logically. Nietzsche was also mentioning Kant and his categorical imperative (maxim) and that it is also based in religion. What he meant by this quote is that once you denounce God and religion and become an atheist, those moral rules no longer have an "anchor". They are no longer based on religion. And therefore, it might become very easy to fall into nihilism and denounce all these ethical and moral rules altogether.
To be clear, Nietzsche wasn't condoning nihilism, but warning against it. And if you decide to study Nietzsche, know that most of his works and philosophies are outdated. And sorry for the bad English. I'm not native.
Edit: This is mostly my interpretation. As for the movie, as a christian AND a student of philosophy (those two things can coexist believe it or not) I was extremely offended by this movie. Plus, using Descartes for example to prove God's existence would've been much better. Not to mention many saints were also philosophers (like Augustin or Thomas Aquinas) so a philosophy professor that despises religion is extremely unrealistic.
@@aklapa318 thank you! I appreciate the information
@@aklapa318 came here to be entertaint for 15 minutes, left more educated. Nice one :)
God is dead and ironically pureflix killed it.
Sounds like this guy came up with Pure Flix so he could act in any movie he wanted to because he couldn't make it on Hollywood.
Yup, I bet he's less a Christian and more preying on a vulnerable audience.
They don't call him the Christian Tommy Wiseau for nothing.
Bingo
@@ModernSocialist Honestly that's so cruel. Regular Tommy Wiseau actually learned how to have a sense of humor.
Ebiegberi Adonkie which ever will it be
i love how no one is talking about how one of the actors was Spencer from good luck charlie
I INSTANTLY THOUGHT THAT!
It took me a moment to remember where I saw the actor before.
And the brother in wizards of eagerly place
And that one guy from Hercules
@@Randomtwixy No. He wasn't Justin or Max.
So maybe "Cats" was not that bad after all...
😂😂😂😂😂!!!
Pure Flix would remake it, "dogs"
At least it was entertaining in a horrible way.
we need christian cats!
Cats is a master class in the art of quality cinema next to Pure Flix.
My grandmother was Muslim and she used to say that good Christians are the same as good Muslims, and the most important thing is to be a good person. People should be more accepting of each other, regardless of their personal beliefs. We all go through similar life experiences as human beings existing in society and it’s important to remember that
I believe that God comes to people in the way they are most likely to accept Him. For me, that's Christianity, but it could be any number of religions or even secular things like appreciating science, art, humanity, etc. It would be foolish for any of us to try to put God in a box
Exactly instead of people doing dumb debates we could learn about each other’s culture , I love Islamic history even though I’m not Muslim, I think peace is better than proving someone wrong
The uniting core of religious beliefs: "Be excellent to each other and party on dudes."
Yes 👏🏾
@@msjkramey That's an amazing way to put it, thanks. :)
Being forced to Watch God’s Not Dead 2 separate times for high school bible class was hell especially since we had the choice of the Prince of Egypt and/or Veggietales but nah the class chose gods not fucking dead
this made my day 🤣
Also I'm sorry this happened btw... sounds rough :(
I had to watch the first one (also in religion class) and it's so bad, but the second one is like on an another level lol i'm sorry you had to go through that, I also had to watch an abortion of a movie called sarah's choice, which is like the worst movie ever
I heard about it and was surprised there wasn’t a scene in the class were one of the Hindu students gets confused over the “gods not dead” cause they believe in multiple gods so it got to be more specific
Did you watched the third one? It is really good compared to other two and is more realistic.
I hate and love how they made the ACLU of all groups the antagonist in the second movie. Like holy shit PureFlix just say you hate religious equality and go lmao
The best part is that Muslims believe that most of the events of the bible occurred, but that Jesus was a prophet and predecessor to Muhammed. Corinthians is not blasphemy
Ikr
That's because they're all abrahamic religions 🤷🏾♀️
because in real life, Muslims are not monsters. I am a Christian, and my best friend is a Muslim, we don't have any issues or such. Wish people would stop making such terrible movies and such giving Christians a bad name.
The quran even expressly instructs Muslims to study "the earlier signs of God" i.e. The Torah and the bible, which, again, according to the quran, are true, except for the parts where they contradict the quran.
Guess that’s what happens when you don’t do your research and make a movie based on your religious bias and prejudice lol. It’s really embarrassing
"I know adultery's wrong but I still have the urge to do it!" Your experiences are not universal, my dude.
Wanting to cheat is part of his core identity 😂
Because i always works out so well?
Quoting a well-known priest from Poland, a guy who has his own radio station and close ties to the government's leading party
"Everyone has temptations"
As if a priest pedophile who'd been sexually abusing numerous children for years is somehow the same as eating too many sweets
What a lovely thing for his wife to hear PROBABLY WHEN THAT WAS SHOWN TO THEIR ENTIRE CHURCH!
@@Aska2468 IDK as someone with OCD, your thoughts don’t always mean you enjoy or not enjoy doing something. Intrusive thoughts and feelings are part of being a human being and don’t define you. I hate it when people are like “well you thought of it or had the temptation to do it that must mean that you are it and are just suppressing it” when that’s not how the mind works; and for people like me, who struggle with intrusive thoughts, it can be quite a damaging mindset to be in.
I’m reminded of this little anecdote I read once, called “the reason for atheists”
Basically, a preacher is talking about how God makes all things to have a purpose. One kid in the front, trying to stump the preacher, asks “what is the point of atheists then?” presumably to either the chortling or annoyance of the rest of the audience. The preacher then says that atheists are here to show that you need not believe in anything to be good to others. While Christians can be great and lovely, some use religion to be awful. Atheists who choose respect and love with no God to answer to show us that being good is not some religious idea, it’s purely something humans want to do.
That story always makes me smile because as someone who believes in some form of God, it shows that no matter what’s out there, we can all be good to one another. We need not agree on everything, we just need to respect each other as humans.
Gad, that made me cry. As a Catholic this was pretty nice to read for once
Yeah. I think I'll have to remember this, it's a good story for the overzealous
Yeah I'll drink to that
This anecdote is gold. As someone who does believe in God but chose not to follow Him, I was told that I was going to Hell and suffer by many Christians (I go to a Christian High School). I once questioned them that if I do no crime and always good to others, but just chose not to believe in him, will I still go to Hell, and they said yeah I will. That’s one of the reasons that turned me away from Christianity, because if they are right, no matter what you do, it will not matter if you don’t believe in God.
Athiests are just a test for those of us who believe. Can't get into heaven unless you worship God, simple
Imagine telling a dying man who’s groaning in pain and agony that his suffering is “a gift” and then using his passing to promote your religious beliefs. Dude...
Tem Tem Well it was the pastor trying to save him, would you rather the pastor do nothing and have a guilty conscience that that man got sent to whatever hell he believes in??
@@jordan82514 So basically what you're saying is "Dude, I know you're dying, but think of the pastor's feelings! D: "
just no.
I'd want him to call 911. I'd be grateful for the 911 call. I would absolutely hate being proselytised to in such a situation. You may think you're trying to help/save my eternal soul, but what you're actually doing is unbelievably shitty and borderline abuse. Please don't ever proselytise unsolicited to people who are suffering. Especially since, afterlife or no, religion on Earth causes so much suffering it's insane.
Just these last few years have made me realize that there are people who will do exactly this and preach to you as you are writhing in pain. Happened to me, I honestly couldn't do anything cause my stomach hurt so badly I wanted to end myself. Happened every single month for two weeks straight. And what does my grandmother tell me as I'm suffering? "Oh! But God is only doing this so that you can learn and be saved." K, clearly I don't want to them if this is "salvation" just go get me my painkillers, thanks.
"I just realized you're dying. Would u consider Jesus?"
Have you thought of monitizing your suffering for the greater good?
God’s Not Dead insulted itself with the whole “if God isn’t real then why should we be good” thing. God wants us to do good for the sake of doing good! Doing good just to get a reward shoes that you are not a good person.
It’s to convince people who leave Christianity to act recklessly and ruin their lives so that they’ll come back to Christianity. Not to mention they will completely lack the ability to reason morals without God. They’d have to learn everything from the ground up. It is a horrible manipulation tactic.
@@daianmoi8528 Religion does a rotten job of teaching morality, and morality existed long before the Old and New Testaments were written.
Yes, that is a key Christian argument about proving God exists. "Without the Bible we wouldn't have morals" like everyone who isn't a Christian is a scumbag and doesn't understand right from wrong. And, if we want to discus morality, well, God had the wives of men who did wrong raped. Nice, right?
They see that being "good" is just a consequence; Technically heaven is for new born Christian, those who accepted Jesus as their Savior.
Are you speaking for me now huh?
I don't care if you do good or bad as long as you don't do good or bad things in my name.
Of course the professor doesn't believe in the Christian God. He's Hercules.
Not as cool as the Warrior Princess tho
and and and captain Dylan Hunt of the Andromeda Ascending........... noooo maaaaan what are you doing in this movie !!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Is he the same Hercules who threw a bear into space?
@@dandelion030 Sadly Kevin Sorbo (The actor) is totally in on this kind of thing. He's played the redeemed atheist in a couple movies now and in both he's the "God took someone I love so I hate him!" type of "atheist". (If you believe in God, even if you hate him, you're not an atheist Sorbo!) I'm fairly certain he wrote the second one which came out after God's Not Dead so yeah...
Sorbo also did voice work as Hercules in God of War 3 lmao
My dad is a preacher and he hates this trilogy because it poses a dangerous message that atheists are horrible, selfish, people. He talked to a priest we know (who also hates these movies) and says that the biggest inaccuracy of the first movie is that a college Professor is not allowed to force his beliefs on his students (which is the whole point of the first movie).
Edit: My dad also hated the "text God's not Dead to spread the word" thing because it was stupid and people were blowing up his phone one day because of it.
Most of those ridiculous "films" have horrible messages, and poorly paint the picture of what it is to be both athiest and Christian. I wish they would stop turning their biased sermons into movies, and focus on loving and serving people instead. The movies are an embarrassment to Christianity and only serve to push people away from the faith, if this is what the "faith" looks like 😞
This could've been a decent drama if it would've concentrated on closely on that professor's crisis of faith and clearly how he hasn't processed death of his loved one properly.
His rage against the heavens could've been shown as a tragedy that finally ends up driving him into a corner, where the college gives him ultimatum like "we understand what you're going trough, but your behavior is entirely inappropriate and against our values. You need to stop, or we will be forced to take action." Then he had to choose whether this all really is worth it.
But instead, we got this.
I got so many of those dumbass texts because of that movie. I responded to all of them with “you can’t kill what doesn’t exist”. Pretty sure a handful of people blocked my number after that
As a Christian, sorry for the quality of Christian programming. Most millennial and zoomer Chtistians dont like it either. At least, I hope they don't
Nope because all the millennial and zoomer Christians were raised by the crazy boomer Christians that would only let them watch this kind of stuff and only when they became independent could they see real quality and could see what they were missing. Or, thanks to the internet, they snuck under their parents and watched/read quality things, and learnt on their own, eithout probing, what things really were and so they grew up knowing better than the crazy obsessiveness of their parents.
Though, there are still some that are the same as their parents were. Especially in the plains/heartland/southern states.
@@pyraffin When I was a child, I was terrified that I would burn forever if I saw "worldly things" on TV, because my parents taught me so. Then I put aside childish things lol
As a zoomer Christian i hate this type of stuff it makes us look worse. I'm glad my parents weren't strict at all and didn't force Christianity onto me.
I think it takes getting out of the "Christian bubble" to be able to look at Christian content more critically. Growing up, I thought listening to songs with curse words and liking movies and films with more adult themes (not just sexual) would make me a bad christian. It wasn't until I was older that I realized that I was raised on believing in God for fear of hell...
Hopefully millennials and zoomers will be the generations to leave religion behind completely.
what is it with Christians saying "people of faith" when they mean Christians? like "people of faith" encompasses Muslims, Jewish people, Hindus, pagans, Buddhists, those who practice indigenous spiritualities, but apparently to them you can only have faith if you believe in Jebus.
Because christians are convinced that it's only their faith that's valid.
@BLANK SLATE no it isn't where the hell did you get that from
@BLANK SLATE wtf are you talking about?? Most indigenous believes revolved around the energies in nature...
@BLANK SLATE !? You serious?
@BLANK SLATE understandable have a good day.
Also "indigenous" religions arent that different from Christianity and stuff. Heck it's actually pretty similar
Abstinence didn't even work back when god only had two people to keep an eye on.
Abstinence didn't even work when Mary had a virgin birth...
@@looney1023 "virgin"
@@goodolmeplant5809 they spelled it right though
@@melmelon3393 lol cause she isn't a virgin
TheMonsterTrio the religion was made to cover the cheat up
My grandma is a Christian and she used to give my: trans cousin (she even used the right pronouns and didnt refere to them by their dead name) and my gay uncle (he has a different mom). A place to stay. She didn't reprimand them, she didn't try to "make them straight" she just accepted them.
To me, she was an actual Christian, who just loved everyone and didn't judge them for who they were. To me, she was the reason I am an agnostic-Christian.
Lol agnostic-Christian? What’s even the point?
@@ScoobyandShaggy5554 not trying to convert everyone, or burning people who consumed butter ain't bad mate.
Yeah your gram was a real Christian. ❤️
Your gram is a true role model.
That’s awesome to see how much Christ loves His children that He can give them His heart and mind, God bless.
Imagine being that one girl with an extremely Christian mom and she makes you get rid of Netflix and gets Pure Flix. But all the movies on they are cheap and low budget. Oh wait, that's me
I thank God that my mother got Disney + as well as pure flix and kept our Netflix subscription....we don't even use it that much, since she doesn't have a problem with unchristian shows unless they have overly explicit sex.
Go get yourself a VPN.
@@zkyrus1873 I wouldn't be able to pay for it Since I do not have a credit card. (Netflix and the VPN)
As an ex mormon kid from an EXTREMELY religious mother, my heart goes out to you, friend.
I am so sorry
10:50 I'm muslim and i went to a baptist school in Mississippi/Alabama. Heck, even my grandfather was close friends with the local Priest in the area. I've read both the Qur'an and some of the bible and found many correlations. Most of the Christians I've interacted with have been kind and civil, and have never tried to change my faith. Movies like these written by non-muslims or people with no actual knowledge on muslims, always write muslim characters as oppressed and hating their faith, which is a huge turn-off. Hopefully they'll be able to see that these two faiths, aren't so different.
They really aren't that different.
I went to a Baptist university in Texas, and one of the first friends I made there was a Muslim girl. One of my professors assigned us to go attend a religious service of a faith or denomination that wasn't ours & write an essay about it, so I went with her to her mosque and it was a wonderful experience. I was so grateful to my professor for making me step out of my bubble so I could see just how similar my friend's faith and mine really were. Sadly that professor later got fired from the school when it was taken over by more "Pureflix"-type Christians. :-(
Islam, Judaism, and Christianity are all strikingly similar
There is a huge difference…followers of Christ believe that Jesus is God …and that He took human flesh and came on the Earth to die for the sins of the world, so that the relationship between humans and God could be restored…of course humans have the free will to choose if they want to believe in Jesus and change their lives…In other religions Jesus is just a prophet
Back when I was in the church, we were actually taught, explicitly, that if you’re not a Christian, you must not have a moral compass. If you don’t love Christ, then you don’t know what love is. I’m out of it now and healing from various other damages, thank god, but this is the stuff I was taught. I’m so glad it seems like not all Christians receive that type of bullshit, but they definitely exist and they’re absolutely awful.
Hello umm I’m sorry that you had that kind of experience in the church I personally am catholic but it’s kinda that same thing Um I go to church evrey Sunday to hear the works of God now you may not ever trust this faith again but can you pleas just go to a Catholic Church and try to listen to what they are saying because I may be young in my faith but I know one thing that what I hear at church is the most beautiful thing ever if you truly listen you just might hear a call I’m not trying to preacher you into any thing but ya know have a good day
You stayed awake in church? People can actually do that , wow umm I gotta fix myself
There was a comment that isn't there anymore; Idk if it's TH-cam being shitty, but if that person is around--I couldn't see your entire comment. Just the first few sentences saying that the Catholic church has a huge ring of pedophilia and not to get involved in it. I just wanted to thank you for your concern and for commenting to try and prevent me from getting into it. Not to worry; many of my studies push me gently toward atheism, and if I ever head toward religion again for any reason, it certainly won't be toward any Abrahamic faiths. I don't know what else you said, but thanks. (To Kira, thank you for your concern as well, and I'm sorry to shut you down, but I don't think I'll try out any such churches.)
Hannah Bryan that’s perfectly fine your are entitled to your own opinion sorry if you felt like I was pressuring you into thinking that way and I’m sorry you had that experience in the church have a nice night and stay safe in this crazy world
Kira Kunkel, oh you did not come across as pressuring me at all! I could tell you care a lot, and again, thanks for thinking of me. I’ve just been too jaded. You stay safe as well 💙
My mom was really worried when her student randomly texted her the words “God is not dead”.
That is concerning to recieve without context
As a Christian, I'd like to say we don't claim Pureflix.
same
I agree!!!
others do though, you can claim things or not for yourself but a significant amount of ppl who also call themselves christians do; you dont speak for everyone so calm down with the royal ‘we’
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calm down
They mean as a non crazy Christian, they don’t associate or take credit for the Gods Not Dead Franchise.
Well, it isn't being run by Hindus and Muslims is it? Though no doubt they have bad religious programming of their own.
I'm glad if you're an exception, but I've never heard of someone getting up in church or giving a sermon against Pureflix. Not one time. I haven't heard one religious leader say: we can do better; we demand better. There's a couple people I know of on YT who put themselves out there, and that's it. So what can I conclude but the majority of Christians support it in their hearts?
“Vegetarianism is a step away from a world without pastors or panties” I read that somewhere and thought it was the most hilarious statement I’ve read in years.
@Kali Southpaw - I have no clue, but I just realized I'm a veg and I hate underwear. Maybe it's a gas thing, we need less barriers to let the air escape or something lol. I don't even have bad gas, but some vegheads do. Who knows?!
god DEMANDS you eat those chicken mcnuggets
@@Inkspeckle nuggets are gross
*does god’s command and eats every meat product out there* I are a good Christian! Lol
Sounds good to me 🤷♀️
God is so forgiving that if he really wants you to go to heaven, he'll make sure that when you get hit by a car, you'll live _juuust long enough_ for the pastor he's arranged to be nearby to convert you. He won't do something super crazy like help you survive the accident though. That's too much.
Well, he is God, and he did create y'know EVERYTHING so he has his reasons, but maybe you know better than him.
@@davidlindsay9564 Oh I definitely do
@@funnyvalentinedidnothingwrong You say that now, but I hope you'll change your mind on that one before you discuss it with him.
@@davidlindsay9564 Not likely. He's probably weak as hell too. I can take him.
@@davidlindsay9564 this dude can definitely take God. God is a lil coward.
Fun fact: whilst in a Christian middle school, my friend group thought ‘gods not dead’ was so stupid ( we were forced to watch it in class) that one of my friends made joke gay fan fiction between the college professor and the main character....
I would so read that. Do you have a link?
But like seriously is there a link?
@@luuuuux_ unfortunately her and I haven’t been friends for years and I have no idea if she posted / deleted it off Wattpad. I even tried searching it and yielded no results :((
@@lovebug_taffy2263 oh, that’s sad.
BRUH
Even when I was still Catholic, I disliked the whole “there is no morality without God” argument. You’re claiming to argue from a position of moral superiority, but then say that the only thing standing between you and a life of crime is the belief in a deity. And I’m the one who is immoral for being Agnostic? Mega oof.
“there is no morality without God” is not the same as “there is no morality without belief in God existence”. Same difference as between "there are no cars without mechanical engineers" vs "there are no cars without belief that mechanical engineers exist".
Trinidad still think it’s a dumb argument
Trinidad i don’t need an all-powerful deity to help keep my moral compass in check
Northern Populist No because Christianity has not lost its stranglehold on American Culture and Politics.
@@BenTomlinson1994 Religious people use their religion to justify and excuse being fearful and acting in an immoral fashion. But I like the way you refer to Religion losing its "clutches" on our society. Well put! I prefer to stay out of its clutches.
The only valid Christian films are Prince of Egypt, Veggie Tales and probably Passion of the Christ.
Silence, Hacksaw Ridge and Last Temptation of Christ
The original left behind movies were pretty good
As an atheist I still watch Veggie Tales not gonna lie
Prince of Egypt is one of the best films ever made, and certainly a top five great film in regards to the animation genre. It's so dark and beautiful and the music is phenomenal*
Last Days in the Desert as well. Jesus himself plays Jesus
@@femcritrhya *What the hell is "phemenal"?*
I first thought this was a joke about Christian movies on Netflix.
The reality is much crueler.
Isn't it always?
@@FiddlebirdBlue "The world is indeed a joke, but the joke is on mankind"
-H.P Lovecraft
She's just angry at God that's all
"Do you love the hallmark channel but feel it has too much variety?" - my spouse
do you love the hallmark channel but feel it's not racist enough? also
@@gabrielaharries8149 we had not got that far in the video yet. Theres also homophobic enough and islamophobic enough ....
Reason why I'm an Atheist -
I did not find evidence for my faith, and was not comforted by it [❌]
Pure Flix [✔️]
if you don't mind me asking when u was that u didn't feel comforted... was it that u didn't feel any comfort from The Lord or from church people? either way i do hope you'll know one day how much He truly loves you ... shalom
@@AP-jr2kt You missunderstood what Barbossa said. To translate his joke: His reason for being an atheist isn't that he hasn't found evidence or wasn't comforted, but Pure Flix existing.
@@cy-one - No I think they understood the joke perfectly, they seem to have recognized the real reason and asked a question about that real reason.
Can’t blame ya lol
The old lady at the end had a good point Satan tricks some that have good lives
I keep hearing it as "they don't even have real sex", I misheard it once and now I can't unhear it
Same! Lol
you could say it's the *_sex that god can't see_*
@@factsandlogic.8762 God must be sad, since god apparently "watches over us at all times".
Secular humanism: "secular" just means not affiliated with any specific religion. Secular basically just means not religious. Humanism is basically just a moral system that revolves around what does the least harm to humans being moral.
It's an odd term, but not nearly as pretentious as it first sounds. Basically boils down to morality without religion.
So, it's basically being good without it being for god or to go to heaven?
@@anhaaraahmed3597 👏🏻
Yep pretty much
Its, i don't believe theres any evidence of a god, but i also love and care about others and want to do good and be good (and I don't need the perceived existence of a god or teachings of a religion to do so).
Humanism and organizations related to it focus on human rights, especially those of whom religion persecutes or discriminates against (gays, minorities, women, outside cultures, apostates, etc)
YourMajesty143 exactly.
Y'all are all missing an important piece of information here. "Secular humanism," in this particular brand of Christianity, is a catch-all codeword for: liberals, hippies, communists, New-Agers, atheists, people who have sex in non-God approved ways, vegetarians, and/or all of the above (somehow). Trust me, I know, I grew up in a household where the term was used in that way. I suspect it's something that started in the 80s and is specific to American conservative culture-war evangelicals.
One of my Christian grandma's favorite shows is Lucifer
The one on Netflix
Lol
nice alucard pfp
@@jupian7866 Why thank you!
Late to the party but hell yeah! 😈
My ultra religious Uncle tried to say something about my Nana enjoying Lucifer. She turned to him and told him she would watch whatever the hell she wanted to. I laugh every time we talk about that story.
"What happened here tonight, is a cause for CELEBRATION!" Oh well, someone just got slammed by a car and dying, don't call paramedics, call a PASTOR and the Let's Celebrate! I... I just can't..
Jesus must be so confused how him dying for our sins has escalated into what ever the f*ck this is.
If god exists . . . all of this is according to his plan.
Thats the best part about an omniscient god who created everything . . . all credit belongs to him.
Rape? Murder? Theft? Pedophilia? War? Famine? Disease? All gifts from the almighty himself.
Still better than how it used to be.
@@NymbusCumulo928 autocracy baby
I don't personally believe in your religion, but this comment made me laugh.
@@egglolchese3544 thank you! And unlike some other members of my faith seem to think, it is ok for you to believe whatever you want.
I’m agnostic and I went to church once and they kept going on about how athiests are so bad and how they don’t understand how athiests live with themselves and them wishing bad things on people and how they knew that god would punish people in horrible ways.
Like that’s... don’t wish ill on people???
How dare you need evidence and logic before you believe in something.
@@badparentingistheworldsbig3142 your name say it all
Damn as an agnostic that was raised around atheists and liberal Christians this was not my experience at all, but now hearing these horror stories make me realize how lucky I am
Wow, that "Love thy neighbor" thing went right out the window
Yeah i just dont believe in god, i dont want people to suffer because of my beliefs
Imagine getting hit by a car, on the verge of death, lying in the pouring wet street and the only people around to help are crazy people that make you change your beliefes.
That's basically that meme with a dying guy and a girl calling for the doctor XD
That's why I hope I never end up being injured on a college campus.
As a Christian myself. The only Christian films I like (and are tolerable) are: The Passion of the Christ, Soul Surfer, Hacksaw Ridge, Silence, and Prince of Egypt.
The Chronicles of Narnia films and books are also pretty good imo for what they are. Also VeggieTales.
Magnitude Reviews this might not count but Lord of the Rings is a trilogy that many Christians love, I’m not a Christian but I grew up with those movies
Watch "the last temptation of Christ".
Joseph King of Dreams is good too, that was my jam growing up. Still enjoy it even though I definitely don't believe in god anymore
what’s christian about those films? (apart from passion of christ)
i’ve watched them a long time ago but don’t remember them being christian
Dom the Prince of Egypt is about the story of Moses and how he freed the Hebrews with the help of God, ya know he parted the ocean, got the 10 commandments and all that. Veggie Tales I've never watched it but I know for a fact it's a show that talks about religion
Amanda covering cringe Christian films? Guess who’s early!
Ye.
4 God's Not 4 Deader
God's Not Dead 5: The Deadening
Weekend At God's (Who's Totally Not Dead)
God Wars 7: Revenge of the Dead
Honey We Deaded the God
God is alive
God in dead again
God is back
God’s place to party
God’s son goes to public school
The Evil Dead God 2: Book Of Mormon
Fasting and Furious 7
Diary of a Dead-y God: God (hates) Gays
"Honey We Deaded the God" - Nietzsche for 21st century suburban families
God's not dead is a movie about philosophy from someone who has never taken high level philosophy classes
Right on point😭😭😭
Or even philosophy 101 for that matter
Ghandi: “I like your Christ but I do not like your Christians”
freeshavo cado I agree with him too. The idea of Christ is good but Christians suck and are so judgmental!
@@megamoviez Depends on the Christian. Some are better than others. Jehovah's witnesses...terrifying as hell for example. Quakers, kinda cool but 95% they don't really exist. Like Australia.
You should look up what he said about Black south Africans.
Depends on which version of Christ you're talking about. If it's Jesus the good moral teacher, then I applaud it.
If it's Christ the judge who will cast you into eternal judgment for not believing in him, then I denounce him.
@@megamoviez lots of Christians agree with that
The god/morality thing always bugs me. From my perspective, anyone who questions the morality of non-religious people is basically admitting they need a giant sword hanging over them in order to toe the line and be a good (or at least not bad) person. It's cringey that they never realize how much they're outing themselves.
Some people DO need a sword over their head to remind them to be moral. That’s just a sad reality of humanity.
Nonreligious people and atheists have no standard of morals anyway
And you appear to have no moral or intelligence.
@@mattprice443 I'm not sure that's how people/morals work luv.
@@ww.DuzaFizz I'm saying there's no standard for them to base it off of. Good and evil
In middle school, God's Not Dead was my best friends' favorite movie. I, being an atheist from an atheist family, had to deal with my two best friends telling me every day how terrible I am and how terrible my family is for existing and taking away their right to be Christian. I never once tried to convert them. They made me go to church in order to be their friend, and I did it. My first time at my friend's church, we played hide and seek and they locked me in a closet for an hour. But they were my only friends and I didn't think it was that bad at the time, so I just dealt with it. I realized when I got to high school which was in a bigger school district where I made new friends that basically every aspect of my relationship with my middle school friends was manipulative and abusive. Suffice it to say, God's Not Dead holds a lot of bad meaning for me. Though I do still have a kinda fun memory of watching it with my dad in middle school and him getting drunk and us making fun of how awful and stupid the movie is. Probably the most hurtful part was that my friends believed a movie version of what an atheist is over the person that they had known since they were five years old. That movie made them believe it was okay and justified to abuse me. They did a lot of other manipulative and abuse stuff, but that movie played a big factor in the shift from being good friends to being abusive.
Anyway, if you read this, thanks for listening. I just kinda needed to vent a bit
@Zoe Durand
Wow... Holy $h!t! Ma'am, I hope this entire comment is fabrication. Mainly because as a Christian when I was growing up, I heard how the media influenced kids. I didn't believe it, but by the time I was in my teens I understood what was being said:"kids are impressionable and dumb, so trust us. We know what's best."
But my point is, if you're story is legit, true, it shows that at least religious media can influence impressionable children negatively... Not that I'm surprised...
@@DemonicRemption I really wish my story weren't true. And you're right, it really does say a lot about the power that media can have on children. And sometimes kids grow out of those ideas and sometimes they do not. One of my middle school friends realized what she had done to me and realized that she had been in the wrong. She has since become much more accepting of me and others. She is a still very Christian, but she doesn't mind that I'm not. Sadly, the other friend was never able to see that, and the last time I talked to her, which was a year ago, she still thought me and my whole family was disgusting for not being religious. And while me and one of my old friends were able reconcile everything, not every kid will get that. There are other kids being influenced by media like this and hurting their classmates and neighbors and fellow kids. The kids who are being influenced could end up very much internalizing that mentality, and even if they manage to escape that mentality, they could cause real damage to the kid that their hate was directed toward. I am all for having movies to express religion, but it is problematic when those movies inspire hate and misinformation.
Please be kind out there.
I hope you’re doing well
They're the ones who are going to burn if they don't change their ways
Sickening
I'm sorry that happened to you, and glad you got better friends when you grew up.
Hopefully they grew out of it eventually.
Sometimes everyone needs to vent.
10:35 Wait, so an atheist makes his wife serve at table, aka perform the traditional female duty, not to mention that the atheist is the one who stays in a marriage with a woman he doesn't respect and probably doesn't love? Do the filmmakers believe that atheists are more likely to do both of those things than Christians?
There's a thing I studied in communications theory where people are likelier to accuse others of their own wrongdoing. I think it's playing out here.
@@yogawarriorgirl that gives a new meaning to catcalling
why this whole time did i think that "God's Not Dead" was a documentary
I love your pfp lol, and you might be thinking of the documentary Jesus Camp
meg t thanks lol but no i just remember seeing the Gods Not Dead posters at my high school and thinking “wow are they gonna follow this kid around with a doc crew as he proves gods not dead”
As a kid, I took from this movie a message about a person standing up for his beliefs and not being swayed by societal pressures (student scenes), and that it's okay to believe in different religions (Muslim family scenes), and that people are ultimately redeemable (prof ending).
As an adult, I realized that this movie is so biased against anyone that is non-Christian, and while I still hold the messages from above to heart, this just reminds me how damned hypocritical some Christians can be.
This is so me too! This movie is not exactly like how I remember it..
Same, just that now I see it as christians playing the victim card, when in the past they have been extremly harmful to others (btw, i don't hate christians, I just hate people forcing their belives on to others and punishing them if they don't follow their rules)
Yeah same. I’m very skeptical of most Christian movies because they all seem to just be intellectual-circle-jerk ‘we’re so much more correct and better than other religions’ like.... ok yes it’s ok to believe the Bible is correct, but I wish these filmmakers actually put real passion and love into their work instead of this shallow holier than thou garbage. Christian media peaked with veggietales.
One of the few instances where misreading a film turned out to be a good thing.
Same
"what reason is there to be morale if there's no god?"
_I don't know.. to not be a sack of shit?_
That's a quote that we can all relate to! :D :D
That's exactly what Dennis Prager tried to argue, that if God doesn't exist then murder isn't wrong.
Pretty much everyone and their brother told him that without possibility of afterlife, murder is in fact now worse.
As someone with muslim grandparents and a lot of muslim relatives, this movie makes me incredibly upset. Hijabs are always a choice, there are muslims who don’t wear them. On top of that my grandparents have an atheist daughter (aka my mom) and literally could not care less, and are absolutely never condescending or talk down to her.
As a lesbian, when I came out to them despite being muslim they were incredibly supportive and will likely be coming to my wedding.
Please don’t get the wrong idea about muslims, they are regular people with a regular religion just like everyone else.
It depends on where you/you're family is from.
"Hijabs are always a choice" is simply Not the truth and truly no offence but your family or those muslim families you know or know about are not the measure.
Islam is certainly not a normal religion and muslins that act the way you describe are not following Islam , the Koran says that homosexuals must be killed and that nonbelievers must eventually be killed if they won’t convert , but we have folks that claim to be Christian and don’t believe the Bible so…
@The Kings Child I'm not completely sure about this, but I have heard that it is not hijab if it's not worn by choice, if it's not by choice it's just a piece of fabric.
I saw "God's Not Dead" at the National Convention of American Atheists in Memphis Tennessee. What made it great was that there were a thousand atheists in the audience and on-stage were Trace Beaulieu and Frank Conniff riffing on the movie just like the always did on their show, Mystery Science Theater 3000.
I've also attended a few of the annual conferences for the American Humanist Association. They were very posh events! I met a few celebrities there.
Just a lowkey comment from the man himself. Good day to you sir!
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That’s a convention?
I don’t know why, but the act of my favorite TH-camrs commenting on each other’s videos always makes me, for lack of a better term, giddy.
W o a h. Non Christians? In-....in Tennessee? Please, tell me where I can find these people, bc I am constantly surrounded by Christians that wanna shove their Christianity down my gullet at all moments.
(Im exaggerating, obviously, but its not a good feeling to know that literally anyone could look down at you if they knew you werent Christian. Low-key sucks.)
I'm a pastor's grandson and every now and then I give a sermon at the church. One sunday I actually criticized this movie for its unrealistic portrayal of both christians and atheists and the persecution the movie depicted, but it wasn't the focus, I was actually talking about my interpretation of Star Wars and how I could find parallels to the christian faith and why it was actually better to watch it instead of God's Not Dead. Everyone was blown away, some said to me they'd never thought of movies like that, some never even saw Star Wars before and now they wanted to.
Even though it hurts to hear this criticism to christian media, I'll never say it's wrong or that it doesn't deserve it. God deserves better, I've always been taught that everything I do, I should do it as if I was doing it for God, this means I should always do it with love and give the BEST OF ME. I'm also a filmmaking graduate and I can tell you (even though it's pretty obvious I don't even need to) that these movies are not the best a filmmaker can do in any way. David A. R. White is seriously the Tommy Wiseau of christian media.
That's a really good comparison! My Dad has always liked the spiritual side of Star Wars too.
I have long felt that there needs to be better Christian media than stuff like God's Not Dead. I am not religious by any means, but I do like some Christian media when it's well presented (I love stuff like VeggieTales and Prince of Egypt, and I also love Christian metal bands like Underoath, August Burns Red, and Demon Hunter).
It's kind of sad when I find deeper and better presented religious meanings in films like Jacob's Ladder, that aren't even intended to be religious films, than actual religious films.
The Harry Potter series is more Christian than the PureFlix movies and there's magic as well as no mention of religion there
Right on! And yes, God's Not Dead isn't a good movie. I watched that movie a few days before I went to college. After being in college for a few years, I can say that I've been around people, even made some friends who aren't Christians, and man, has this movie made a mountain out of a mole hill.
You're one of the good ones. Keep spreading your wisdom, because there are a lot of crazy people out there who are missing the "love" part of Christian teaching. Need a Pastor like you around these parts.
The strawmanning "argument" they made about how being born gay doesn't make it right, could easily backfire with "i was born female, but that doesn't mean it's right". And then, obviously, they'll try to counter with "God doesn't make mistakes" or something like that, which can then be replied with "then how could being 'made' gay be wrong if He doesn't make mistakes?"
And that's not even going into their claims that people are born adulterers and that they are considering being gay in the same realm as cheating on a significant other. I'm not touching on the bullshit that is their stupid "sex before marriage"/fornication ideology.
Well, my Mum once told me that God doesn't make people gay, it's Satan trying to tempt us 🙄
Ayyyyy It's not premarital sex if you never marry :)
Man, at my church when I was a kid, the hypocrisy was even worse. We had a Deacon who, during a prayer at Bible Camp, said that God doesn't accept homosexuality, it's wrong and their souls were essentially forfeit. He said all of this unironically while standing next to his (much younger) new wife, with whom he had cheated on his first wife with. In fact, when I posted on Facebook about love being love, he quoted verse to me, calling it a sin and referencing how the bible said it was wrong, to which I replied, 'Doesn't the bible also say that about adultery?' So he never replied and I deleted him and the majority of my old church members from my Facebook, because fuck that!
Also the og bible had lots of depictions of s*x, abuse and such. Yet they think homosexuality is always inherently sexual and is IMPURE
@@sashy7360 Of course. If something they believe is bad, it's the anti-god used-to-be-angel Satan that causes it.
"God left you alive rithing in pain... so you could submit to him" I cracked
If a philosophy teacher took that angle on "God is dead", I'd nope out of there like a F1 car. That's not how Nietzsche works. They clearly don't know anything about philosophy. The "and we killed him" part of the sentence is kind of important.
Marco Meijer YES! Nietzsche was not some atheist icon everyone claims him to be! He said that when he was grief stricken! I’m pretty sure philosophy teachers let you believe what you want cause they know nobody can actually prove or disprove the existence of a deity.
Also, if he was an atheist to that degree, he wouldn't even believe in god, so how can you hate someone that doesn't exist, and how can someone that doesn't exist be dead? It's more of the idea where atheists are only atheists because they had a bad life and blame god for it, when that's not true.
Idk anymore2.0 actually that’s like the “gotcha” question of the movie the boy goes “how can you hate someone that doesn’t exist” but you’re right it really does feel like propaganda now that you mention it like telling kids “atheists are sad because they don’t have God”
I actually got sent a “gods not dead” text from a girl I barley knew from school when it first came out. I was quite confused.
I've been vegetarian/vegan almost all my life. According to some of the many (MANY!) lectures I've sat through, apparently not eating meat is an "offense to God."
I don't understand why that's a thing, but it's a thing!
I was told animals didn't have souls so we could eat them when I asked if it was bad as a kid. I don't think I got the "offense to God" lecture but it's been a while, my brain deleted all that rhetoric when I left Christianity. Maybe it has something to do with animal sacrifice? Lots of gods like animal sacrifices.
Probably a misunderstanding of the Acts 10 story where Peter had a vision and refused to eat the "unclean" animals bc of the old testament rules and regulations and then God was like "no longer consider as unholy anything that I have made clean" and then it turned out that vision was to prepare him for the "gentile" man that he was about to meet, and the whole moral was don't discriminate against or refuse to associate with people of different races or backgrounds but I guess some people could just read the one part and be like "God says all meat is good!"
@@Wormwoodification Abrahamic God was explicitly anti-animal sacrifice, so it's not that.
@@chloeruano7303 To be fair, God did also say that.
It's just that he didn't say all meat is good, he said all *food* is good. Christ said that it isn't what goes inside you, but what comes out of you that matters, in almost those exact words.
That's so funny to me, because I was raised Seventh-Day Adventist, and many people in the church are strict vegetarians, because of the fact that animals weren't eaten in Eden and SDA has a big thing for health. I just found it amusing that we were both apparently raised in the same religion but were taught opposite beliefs on such a random subject.
A friend actually texted me god’s not dead when she finished the movie, I have never felt that offended
You should have replied "then whos corpse am I fucking?"
God isn't dead
@@ethanlee3254 bruh
@@AbsoluteGorbSupreme ?
@@ethanlee3254 proof please
"I was born wanting to commit adultery and that's bad therefore being gay is bad" two responses that pop in my head right away. "I was born wanting to commit adultery and that's bad and I was born a human therefore that is bad." Also you can explain WHY committing adultery is bad. But you cannot explain WHY being gay is bad.
Yes. You can choose not to commit adultery, it's your own will and you can deny it. But you cannot deny what you find attractive, because the other just simply isn't what you find attractive like the same sex is to straight people.
Lets not forget homosexuals can still deny adultery, as well. It doesn't matter the sexuality, it's your will of whether you commit adultery with it or not and those two things are not comparable.
Basically human nature is bad.
Adultery is a really dumb example anyway since cheating on someone isn't a sexuality 🙄
If we had to find an example, I'd go with something like pedophilia. Are people with these kinds of thoughts at fault for their desires? No, they were either born or made experiences growing up that twisted their sexuality this way, they have no control or choice in the matter of what they like.
What they do however have control over, is if they ACT on these desires or not. Many countries also offer voluntarily preventive custody to pedophiles who think they won't have the self-control to not act upon their desires, and so on.
So far, that is in line with the movie (and arguably a better example than adultery) - just because you have an urge doesn't mean you have to act upon it.
But now the important question is - is there a *reason* not to act upon it?
In case of pedophilia the answer is a very clear YES: it would involve someone who is unable to consent due to their lack of maturity, and it is known to cause physical and mental trauma too.
But is there a reason not to have homosexual relationships? No there isn't. It involves two consenting adults and neither of them is victimized by it. Any potential emotional or physical dangers are caused by the lack of acceptance in some societies, *not* by anything that is an inherent part of a same-sex relationship.
It's just an issue of consent. The two people in that relationship consented to a monogamous relationship and one partner one-sidedly broke that consent. This is why open relationships, poly relationships, and three(or more)somes aren't adultery - it was fully consented too.
@@sleepysera - Well said!
PureFlicks: When you’re in the mood for some holy shit.
reminds me of the lines from the late George Carlin
@Eileen Yost
Your comment has me giggling more than necessary. xD
Pureflix & Pray
Make Popcorn For Jesus
A few years ago I was in a class in highschool and there were a few people discussing God's Not Dead and one of the guys (who was kind of known to be abnormally religious, which is saying a LOT since I live in Alabama) said something along the lines of "the main thing that I don't like about the movie is that it only proves the existence of A God, not the Catholic God" and I just thought "really? THAT was your main problem?" Since I had had the misfortune of having seen the movie prior to this
Catholicism IS an abnormal religion to most Alabamians.
@@ChrisMaxfieldActs it's entirely possible that he was a different denomination. To be honest I don't really know the differences between denominations, and it was several year ago that this happened (5 years I think), so I'm kinda just guessing when I say "Catholic" in the original comment
will24556 Until around the 1960’s Catholicism was hated by people like the KKK as much as black people and Jews. When JFK ran for president there was a lot of talk about if a Catholic could overcome the religious bigotry so many Americans still had. Until that point every US president was a Protestant Christian.
"My sky daddy can beat up your sky daddy".
I’ll never forget when my friend’s mom texted me “God is NOT DEAD” and I looked at my friend and asked her if her mom was okay
There's a Cinemasins joke to be made here, I'm just not sure what it is
Roasting PureFlix while dressed moderately, no cursing, no eye rolls.
CinemaSins: ..,at this point, why didn't Amanda just break out her Light Saber and uhh ....to beat uhh a dead horse. Yeah, that's it.
Whoops, maybe I confused CS with The Critical Drinker. Lol
"Everything is Wrong with Pure Flix"
DING
@@MARIE-nb1hf oh to many sin points there 😂
That's it. That's the joke.
"God has left you in pain for a little bit longer so can you summit to him."
Me who has read a lot of... certain... fanfics: Oh- oh no.
Mind: haha, enjoy this image.
what are these fanfics and where can I read them?
Kween Konfusion All kinds of fanfics. Go to pretty much any fanfic site and any sufficiently large fandom, and, well... let’s just say, you do NOT want to read these at work. And don’t read them if you are younger than, say, 14.
I don’t want to assume your age, so I apologize if you’re an adult and I came off as condescending.
Just want to throw this out here: a number of Christians do believe in evolution, and that the first three chapters of Genesis may have been more allegorical than literal (for instance, the seven "days" of creation may have been periods of time where things were formed, not so much actual 24-hour days).
The whole thing with the veganism? It's weird Christians stereotyping non-Christians. It's real dumb.
I cringe so hard when I see things like this because this is so far from what I believe as a Christian and it truly does not represent what I or a number of us actually stand for.
Also, literally all of my atheist friends would be horrified by the way that professor was treating his wife. Bad representation.
What you said in the beginning about the "days" being periods is something many Jews believe as well. Didn't know any Christians believed it so that's cool.
@@MadAliceInWonderland I didn't know Jewish people believed that too, cool learn! I feel that most younger generation religious people are not dead set on religious texts being absolutely true to word. I'll admit I dont know much about the Jewish faith and their texts, but the bible is, in many ways, poetry. I dont think it should be taken as literally.
Margaret Crowell I had a creationist biology text book as a teen that mentioned that, but ultimately disagreed (as do I, you really can’t deny the similarities between humans and other primates and mammals in general).
@SusanSnapDragon Thank you for this. These movies don't represent Christians just as much as they don't represent non-Christians. Makes me so sad to think that people actually internalize the "teachings" of these kinds of movies where everyone that does not conform to the religious standard is a bad person, and that those who do conform, think that as well. To me, it's about if the person is honest and loving, not about the religion they follow. So, good point showing, yet again, that people of the same religious groups have differences in opinions and that the known Christian media does not represent all of you. Have a good one!
@@jfat4 I would say the vast majority of Jewish people at least do not take the Torah as being literal and do believe in science. I can't really speak for Orthodox or Haredi Jews. A huge part of Rabbinic Judaism, which I think is the vast majority, is about stories, analysis, and analysis through storytelling (Midrash), trying to find an understanding of metaphor, practice, history, language..., which is kind of a form of literary criticism imho (though I study writing and Jewish Studies, so that's my bias).
I'm a Conservative Jew and I think you would be hard pressed to find a Biblical literalist among Conservative, Reform, or Reconstructionist Jews. One of the Rabbis at my synagogue has a degree in neuroscience and probably a large section of our community has similar (my Dad has a PhD in biology)
Sorry for the essay; I just got my Bachelor's in writing and Jewish Studies and this is my jam 😁
The comments reminded of that one time where I was so low and at rock bottom. I was in such depressive mood for so long and I never wanted to end my life so bad. Then, I decided to open up to my mom (strict christian) and she said god made me this way and I should be thankful. After that, I officially became an atheist and I've never felt so alive and well.
That scene when the pastor just let the professor die has been bugging me for my entire life. Now watching this, I would think that if Jesus was there he would be like "Yo, just call 911, he's DYING! There's no time for asking him that, just call the ambulance dammit!". It's so fustrating to see that the pastor just let him die!!!
ikr? like, following the movie's logic: if the professor was dying because of a reason, the pastor was _there_ because of a reason to! and i don't think he did what God wanted him to.
Did he not call 911 I swear he said to the people call 911 and they did because you can hear sirens after the scene is over
It's just a death boner, they want to show someone that isn't a Christian suffering because deep down the kind of people who watch that kind of media would be pretty cool with a genocide of all non-Christians
Same, as someone who is a Christian I would call the ambulance, and then stay with the person and pray for them. Badgering the poor man and making him expend energy in talking would be cruel.
That seems like a stupid plothole to me because it sounds like the Christian character didn't care. It'd make more sense to call 911 but they couldn't save him, it sounds too heavy-handed and preachy and as a Christian, I don't watch Christian movies because they tend to have really bad writing in them.
Christian here: I recently watched "God's Not Dead" and it was awful. Christian TH-cam channel "Capturing Christianity" recently did a video harshly criticizing the film. Josh Keefe did a TH-cam video a few years back on why Christian movies are awful (though there are some exceptions) that was informative on the topic.
I'll check it out. I'm a Christian Ministry Major and since following film the past few years, I've come to realize these movies are waaay worse then I thought. I hope better film makers make independent faith films that are far better in the future
Well it's good to know that you guys aren't into this stuff, there might be hope for the world yet
In my experience Christian movies are not meant to convert anyone. They are just to basically peach to the quior.
Center Row also did a great video on Christian movies.
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_Yeah, pro tip to the creators of God's Not Dead from a non-Christian: If you want to make a Christian film that's centered around trying to convert people to your religion, don't depict all the non-believers in the film as inherently amoral evil despicable motherfuckers who are incapable of love._
That's one reason why I thought "Case for Christ" was a lot better. Granted, that movie probably wouldn't convert legions of atheists either, but the atheists were at least decent humans and not cardboard caricatures.
How is nobody mentioning that it's KEVIN SORBO in this movie. U know, the Hercules to Xena from the popular 90s TV shows. Guess I'm showing my age.
And Dean Cain was in it too. His part wasn't central to the professors storyline but it was fun to see him in the movie, too.
My dad knew his brother, and when they met in the army, he made fun of his Hercules poster until the guy told him he was related to Sorbo.
Yasss 👏🏽
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I was looking for this comment and willing to leave it myself, if I hadn't found it.
Ah, God's Not Dead, the movie I only know exists because the director's relative was my substitute teacher once.
"My relative directed God's Not Dead, you guys should watch it!"
The entire class's mind: "No. I don't think I will."
I'm Portuguese. I'm triggered.
JK we in Europe are used to looking at the USA and going "wtf are you doing?!", nothing surprises us anymore
As someone in the US, I can say that all of us aren't like this.
The ones that are like this are the only ones who get attention, however.
Sad, but true 😅
I _live_ in America and _I_ sometimes wonder “wtf are we doing?!” But thankfully, not all of us are like that.
Brasileira aqui, me senti do mesmo jeito
A a fellow European I can confirm this
I remember watching “I’m Not Ashamed” and feeling a little ashamed after watching it.
Oh hell yeah. I'm so on board with you roasting Christian Netflix. Ever since I've heard of it, I've really been wanting literally anyone to talk about it, couldn't have been happier that it's you doing it.
Laureen Berger check out say goodnight kevin
I've actually been in that situation with blood poring down my face and some Christian asking me to affirm my belief in God and in a dazed shock that I was in would have agreed that the world was made out of spaghetti its upsetting later to realize how someone might take advantage of the state of mind of a person in a terrible accident
Pureflix adapting Little Women is so ironic due to the fact that Louisa May was probably gay,not that they would do any research on a book before adapting it though 😂
Wait she was
ace of spades nothing was confirmed but she said how she’s never fallen in love with a man but has fallen in love with many pretty girls.
OK. I'm just gonna say it. Amanda the Jedi has the singing voice of an angel
Nitara Jones You were just saying what we are all thinking
Her voice gave me big broadway vibes
Ok, I'm not alone on that. Her singing voice shocked me, but for all the right reasons.
time stamp? I might’ve missed it.
@@hsmacaraig - 1:57
I was hella religious growing up but every time my church youth group played these types of movies I would just go to the restroom for half the runtime because it was pure agony. Legit the only good Christian content that I would voluntarily watch is Veggietales.
I once watched this really awful movie with my youth group that was supposed to be a "comedy" called "Inspired Guns", which was about mobsters and missionaries. It wasn't preachy or anything - just so boring!
I think the best Christian entertainment is the Prince of Egypt
@@edgarvalles5224 Jesus and Christianity have nothing to do with PRINCE OF EGYPT. It's Jewish entertainment made largely by Jews. It's a great movie, but it's not Christian, and it's not accurate historically.
@@ChrisMaxfieldActs There are records proving that the Hebrews were enslaved by Egyptians.Also as a Christian, we also believe in the story have it in the Bible and have Moses as a prophet soooo it's Christian and Jewish. Not to mention jews and christians basically believe in the same God just approache it in a different way.
Ann M From what I know, there was no evidence that Hebrews were enslaved by Egyptians. There were no seen trace or proof that they were even there in the first place, last time I heard. Can you send a link?
Amanda watches bad movies so we don't have to. Subscribed.
I'm from Portugal and was like: "Adios"?! Wtf is that? Spanish?
It barely counts as Spanish
It's horribly pronounced spanish
A very bad español
I remember when I was 17 I had just started my first job at a movie theater and on my very first shift this lady came into my theater and started screaming at my managers and I about why we had Kung Fu Panda 3 and not God's Not Dead 2. When we don't pick the movies we get! ... You always remember your first Karen. 😂
I would have told her that Kung Fu Panda 3 was actually going to turn a profit so...
I myself am a Christian and I think it's really admirable to have content that reflects the faith. I like that idea. These are not the way to do it.
Same. Christians shoukd make art that reflects their faith, not preach to the choir.
@@luthientinuviel3883 The preaching to the choir movies aren't my thing, I can read the Bible and feel more encouraged than watching a badly written Christian movie.
The irony is that God's Not Dead 3 is somewhat decent. It has actual three-dimensional characters (both christians and atheists), good arguments both for and against the faith, and a peaceful resolution between both sides. Which, of course, means it was hated by the fans of the first two
The original idea of PureFlix actually was pretty good. They originally were broadcasting mainstream movies, edited to remove content certain audiences didn't want to see. I considered getting it so my kids could watch certain movies where there are just a few moments that are too adult for them. And I'm an atheist who os pretty open talking to my kids about difficult topics.
But that model, well, it turned out to be a massive copyright violation. At least the way they did it. And they lacked the technology to do it in a different way (which still may have been a copyright violation).
So now, they have been reduced to this.
Interesting. I actually had no idea that was it's origin. It's a pretty good idea
Yeah the original PureFlix was a good thing. Removing the curse words and sex scenes from popular movies so families could enjoy them together! My parents wanted to get it for our family but it was pretty pricey, at $40 a month
It's pretty hypocritical how some directors and actors are so opposed to selling 'clean' version of movies but tolerate the censored TV versions.
They would just have needed a special license to do that. It's extremely expensive but not that complicated.
@@anlumo1 Yeah, but they can't compete with other streaming services if they pay that license fee. They were trying to, if memory serves, hold physical DVDs, 1 for each person watching at a time, and pay the license fee for regular rentals. But they weren't directly serving the DVDs with software that edited the stream on the user end. That MIGHT have been legal (still highly questionable, and a similar case involving antenna was found to be illegal). Rather, they edited the content ahead of time and then served the edited version. They did not have a license that allowed them to do that.
I believe it went all the way to the Supreme Court a few years ago.
“God is Not Dead: Remember that annoying chain email your religious aunt sent you back in the early 2000s about that college freshman totally pwning that arrogant atheist professor in front of the whole class with the blind watchmaker argument, and then you find out that student was Einstein? We made it into a movie!”
Wasn't Einstein Jewish?
@@leekenneth-walsh3545 -he absolutely was, and that chain email was entirely bullshit
The fact that it’s called “Pureflix” should tell you enough about it
Most of the Pure Flix shows and movies are actually holy shit
Then watch Martin Scorsese's Silence.
Sounds like you have your own subscription.
So these movies are just the Christian version of that New Warriors comic Marvel is making. Whether you're Christian, atheist, or a different religion, you can still say this shit looks stupid.
Yeah, fair comparison. I would have said "at least they didn't have characters named snowflake and safe space" but then I remembered pureflix has a character literally called "bibleman" who defeats people not with his fists, but with the word of god. 🙄
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Kevin Sorbo?! Man, what happened? You were Hercules!!!! Dammit!
Kevin Sorbo has pretty much exclusively been in crazy religious movies for a while now
@@Sapieteuthid seriously?! What the hell happened to our 90s legends. Herc is in crazy religious movies. Xena was arrested for Greenpeace protesting (although her in Ash vs Evil Dead brought back her badass side)
@@TwiggyHetfield27 that series ended too soon and on a cliffhanger
@@MultiTaz333 I know! When I found out they canceled it I was HIGHLY upset. And to top that off that was Bruce Campbell's last time being Ash.
@@TwiggyHetfield27 nah I heard he's making one more movie with raimi
I am a Christian, but it's really frustrating when there is poor representation through terrible Christian movies like this. Most of the plots are pretty bad and just present the message in a pretty terrible way.
Could you please review "I'm in Love with a Church Girl"
Really bad movie from Netflix, but it has Ja Rule...
Actually brother. We need to pray for a awakening of God Spirit
@@GG-fh1cb - No.
Look up the movie, ''Believe Me.'' It's quite funny.
As a bisexual Christian, it hurts that these are the representations that lead to people hating Christianity. And that many of these people actually exist. LGBTQ+ Community is fine, other religions are fine, everyone needs to chill out. Also, dear Hollywood, stop the stereotypes. It’s unhealthy. I Can Only Imagine, Grace Unplugged, and Secretariat are much better representations of Christian faith. But The Prince of Egypt is a MASTERPIECE.
Ohh I loved the Prince of Egypt! But it isn't technically about the Christian faith or even about Christian people... it's the story about Moses and the Hebrew people, which is an essential part of the Jewish faith. Obviously the story is in the Bible (and the Quran) too and it is significant to people of all three of those major religions, but Jesus hadn't even been born yet during the events of the movie.
@@pendragonianlaw Oh, I know. lmao. Just had to say it was a masterpiece. I guess I wasn't clear enough that that was a completely unrelated add on. 😂 But, yes, I’m well aware of that and wasn't sure whether or not I should clarify that factoid. Thanks for bringing it to my attention! :)
Hey so I hate to break it to you.
A. Christianity is bullshit (I can prove every sect wrong except for the predestination ones)
B. The scripture you consider the word of God, is pretty homophobic as fuck.
I get that god is a very comfortable concept, and if you need it . . thats totally cool. But please be aware that it's objectively nonsense.
@@NymbusCumulo928 Get a fkn grip and stop projecting your nonsense dude/tte. It's only "objectively nonsense" to extremely ignorant people who swallow misinformation.
as another member of the LGBT community, i feel it's fair to be angry at christians when they've murdered your kind for thousands of years.
Monty Python's The Life Of Brian is the only Christ/God film you need to watch.
Absolutely! And the debate at the time with M Palin and J Cleese against a bishop and a......some other stodgy political dick.
*rewatch
Fun fact: Life of Brian was banned in multiple countries over blasphemy accusations.
@@jamierichardson7683 I loved that discussion! The bishop was a bit creepy though.
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More fun....one of the female actors got into politics and eventually had that defeated in her area.
Ridiculous for a victimless crime
So, anybody else know that Harry Potter fanfic where everything is Christian? Cause this is the vibe I'm getting from this.
Me: minding my business
Pure Flix: *y a l l m i n d i f I p r a i s e t h e l o r d*
I remember hating this movie, but loving the song “God’s not Dead”. The acting was bad, the movie is bad, the message is bad.