Posted on 02/20/2024 12:23:18 PM PST by Morgana
Rob Reiner’s ‘God & Country: The Rise Of Christian Nationalism’ film opened up this weekend at the box office, and to the surprise of all progressives and no conservatives, it absolutely bombed, bringing in a mere $38,415 over an extended four-day weekend.
The film opened in 85 theaters, averaging $451 a theater over four days, which is incredibly low. Assuming it had at least one showing each day (and likely it had several), it brought in around 112 dollars a day, or ten people a day spread across however many showings.
We’ve talking three or five people per showing, on average.
We’ve written before about the film, featuring the who’s who of bad faith liberals, such as Jemar Tisby, David French, Kristin Kobes Du Mez, Phil Vischer, Skye Jethani, William Barber, Russell Moore, and which alleges that politically active conservative Christians (all lumped together under the label “Christian Nationalism”) don’t understand True Christianity and have let politics subsume their faith.
The truth however if you take a look at who is delivering this message, it becomes clear this is a case of DARVO (an acronym for “deny, attack, and reverse victim and offender”).
To a person, the film’s talking heads all display eye-socket logs of theological compromise in service of politics. In this series of articles, we showed how “experts” of “God And Country” are either firmly outside Christianity in theology and practice or deeply compromised on basic Christian ethics. Two examples of the former:
Meet ‘God + Country’ Talking Head Simone Campbell: A Queer-Affirming Zen Mystic Who Denies Jesus’s Miracles
Meet “God + Country” Talking Head Anthea Butler: Christian In Name Only, Quite Literally
Despite these folks shilling for their terrible movie, no one cared about it it, which is great because it had nothing valuable to say.
‘CNN owner Ted Turner made a 24 part series “the Cold War”.
Well after the fall of the Soviet Union, a liberal relative mentioned in passing that “he wasn’t concerned about faulty ideologies as they collapse on their own.” I was flabbergasted. I was silent, but hardly convinced. I should have replied:
“There was no need for WWII as Hitler just up and committed suicide. Yeah, these ideologies just collapse on their own.”
The truth of the matter is that Ronald Reagan pushed, and the Soviet Union fell.
The Meathead should ear a few dozen more big macs with cheese. Maybe he can set a lunch date with Chris Christie sbd stop at Kispie Krram for desert.
“When Marxists pretend to be Christians for the purpose of attacking them, you get a potpourri of outright lies that just shows a bad attempt to mask the seething hatred below.”
You have a point. It reminds me of all the talking heads, Democrats all, over the years giving advice to Republicans.
Then there was Obama “apologizing” for America. Funny, he never apologized for the many sins of the Democratic party, or for his own failings.
“The right MUST get smart about the terms they use.”
EVERYONE should get smart about terms that are used. As pointed out by others, the left owns the language. To which I will add “and they lie.”
Political/ideological language in this country is extremely sloppy. It is also designed to mislead.
“injure Christians by labeling Christianity as being akin to German National Socialism.”
I think you are onto something. To most people Hitler was simply a “Nazi,” a word that obscures more than it reveals. I think word is finally getting out that Hitler’s party was the German National Socialist Workers’ Party. In America, Hitler uniquely symbolizes evil, despite that fact that “Uncle Joe” started earlier and murdered more people.
Hitler = evil. Hitler = National Socialist Worker’s Party. By the transitive property: Evil = National Socialist Workers’ Party. The left has decided to blame the word “national.” That is their choice, rather than to blame the word “socialist.”
The left is still attached to “international socialism.”
International Socialism = communism = globalism.
What does nationalism mean anyway? Best I can tell, it means patriotism. The left is attacking “nationalism” today and will attack “patriotism” later.
If you are a patriot, don’t throw so-called nationalists under the bus! The left will be coming for you next. They can segway from anti-nationalist to anti-patriot as easily as they do from global warming to climate change (a different theory) and back again.
Archie was right, meathead was wrong. And still is.
“ Ronald Reagan pushed, and the Soviet Union fell.”
A great man.
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