"Christian" Movies
Originally posted February 09th, 2009
Ok, I just have to “vent” a bit here.
I am sick and tired of hearing about the “Fireproof” movie already.
I haven’t seen the movie, nor do I want to. Just the fact that it has Kirk Cameron playing in it is enough to scare me away. His version of Christianity scares me.
From what I have heard, it is a movie about a firefighter (Cameron) and his wife. Their marriage is struggling, he is into internet porn, etc…. Then his father gives him a book and he starts to work on saving his marriage. According to the oft-repeated ads I hear on the radio here, “God gives him a new love for his wife”. That’s good. Where did the old one go?
Being the cynical person I am, I wonder what the movie makers would have done if the main character would have gone through all of this stuff – praying, following God, doing everything he was supposed to, but she rejected him anyway? In real life, that’s often what happens. Then what?
I hear on the radio ads about how many people were “impacted” by the movie, how the movie “blessed” somebody. The movies were shown in churches around here, and my guess is that most of the viewers were Christians. Yet they keep talking about it as if it was some great tool for evangelism.
Then again, the divorce rates for Christians are as high (or higher) than any other demographic, so maybe it’s not a bad thing. Hope it helped somebody!
I’m just sick of the ads!
Anybody reading this see the movie? What did you think?