[ultima ratio]

"Probably the movie has helped foster private piety. But the public fallout in some applications such as ecumenism has been damaging."

Christ said he has not come to bring peace but a sword. He brings division. What this film does is drop an atomic bomb in the midst of the culture war. It stiffens the spines of lax Christians and will confirm faith all around the globe.
It is to our world what the novel Uncle Tom's Cabin was to nineteenth century America. Lincoln said it started the Civil War--and destroyed slavery in the end. This film will have a similar effect--breaking the hegemony of secular decadence.

As for ecumenism--it was based on mutual delusions. Jews, for instance, now feel betrayed, thinking ecumenicism had meant the Gospels themselves might be countermanded and history rewritten, focusing blame on the Romans; Christians imagined Jews understood there could be no possibility of denying the actual historicity of the Gospels; they are shocked by angry Jewish reactions, especially by the linkage of Christianity to the Holocaust.

[Wormwood]

Christ said he has not come to bring peace but a sword. He brings division. What this film does is drop an atomic bomb in the midst of the culture war. It stiffens the spines of lax Christians and will confirm faith all around the globe.

I'd like to attest to this.

In fact, I did just last week. It's nice to be back.