Misrepresentation of Christians
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Aniki21 — 9 years ago(December 27, 2016 04:07 AM)
Yeah, she truly is a strawman (woman), practically a caricature, but the movie needed a villain, so That time she demands the boy for a sacrifice was the most outrageously, over-the-top thing in the entire movie. Silly as hell. And the mini market people drinking the kool-aid Wow, things escalate quickly in this movie. Reminds me of the exxagerations from South Park
To be fair they did establish that the woman was already considered the town nut before things went to hell so I can accept her character as the lone nut of the group but to have in a matter of a few short days, the majority of the survivors as you say drinking her crazy Kool Aid and turn into murderous, drooling neanderthals was when things turned into a ridiculous cartoon.
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GoodRed — 9 years ago(April 19, 2016 09:06 AM)
What really upset me about how Mrs. Carmody was portrayed in the movie is that in the book, she has a reputation of being a witch, not an extremist Christian. Her beliefs in the book seem to be of both OT-Christian and Pagan orientation, but the movie acts as though she's just an insane Christian. Clearly the director had an agenda, and it was painfully obvious.
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jrregan — 9 years ago(April 30, 2016 09:56 PM)
It's Stephen King, what did you expect? He pulled a 'I believe' after he was hit by that van and almost died, but backed off once he recovered. Typical. King has a subtle antagonism against Christians and most religions. And he constantly revisits it. I can't remember any moderate reasonable depictions of Christians in any of his works I read. He is anti-christian and likely anti-religion. Which is a pity, as that is a bias and hurtful position.
Also the fold he wraps himself in shows as MGH was voted as Best Supporting Actress. Really? I found her portrayal wooden. Nothing really believable about what or how she portrayed her character. In the book, the character she plays is very believable. But I guess fat canary yellow pants pseudo religion ladies weren't photogenic enough for Darabont.
The telegraphing of the future from her lead up bits was simply crappy. No other way to put it. -
DBLurker — 9 years ago(May 02, 2016 03:02 PM)
Do a search in Google on how Christians being funded from US work in India, how they torture kids to force them to convert, etc. etc.
Christians ARE like that. Just another group of backward religious apes thinking they are better than other apes who failed to evolve. -
pappa-b-bear — 9 years ago(May 02, 2016 05:52 PM)
So you judge all Christians by a vast minority who blatantly disobeys actual Christian teaching? That's very ignorant and bigoted. I suppose by your logic, you can judge every atheist by Stalin who actually has a death toll of 20 million or so.
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pappa-b-bear — 9 years ago(May 30, 2016 08:28 AM)
"Lol", except Islamic terrorism is the greatest modern threat in the world today. There are many caliphates who have declared violent jihad on all who do not follow them.The same cannot be said for Christianity. So "lol"
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pappa-b-bear — 9 years ago(May 30, 2016 08:31 AM)
Except, they actually are persecuted. According to CNN, Christianity persecution reached a high in 2015. The article said it was akin to the level of ethnic cleansing. Not that you care.
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DBLurker — 9 years ago(August 31, 2016 05:10 AM)
Just another group of backward religious apes thinking they are better than other apes who failed to evolve.
Yup.
I am an atheist, so I judge all religions on the actions of their nut-job followers, not what is written in their fairy-tale books (though Abrahamic religions have really fuked up sht written in their books). -
DBLurker — 9 years ago(August 31, 2016 05:15 AM)
Oh and also, the group you mentioned were clearly disobeying the teachings of Christ. To blame Christianity for those who disobey it is extremely idiotic.
That's great and all, but doesn't change the fact that your people are doing it and rest of you "moderates" are not out there on the street protesting their actions.
That and the fact that American and Roman churches fund these nut-jobs, let's not forget, the pedophiles your Pope protects.
Mother Teresa is a good example >> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=65JxnUW7Wk4
Instead of wasting time defending your cult, come down to the earth and abandon false prophets. World will, eventually. Americans are turning to atheisism anyway. Century of gods is over. Muslims as the delusional fools have shown the world in masses why "god" doesn't save you from a guy flying a drone thousands of miles away. -
pappa-b-bear — 9 years ago(September 06, 2016 05:13 AM)
You should look up the definition of a cult, as you clearly don't understand the meaning. Cults, by definition are small. You say that you hate all religion, yet don't care about the actual doctrines of different religions. This proves you to be a close minded bigot. You say Christians don't condemn violent acts by the very small minority that disobey the teachings of peace new testament Christianity teaches, yet here I am doing it, proving you wrong. I challenge you to find one single teaching of Christ teaching violence. Love your neighborbe charitabletreat others as you want to be treatedOH SUCH VIOLENT TEACHINGS. You just want to justify your bigoted hatred regardless of facts and logic. You've used the term fairy tale which is typical of mindless anti theists. From everything we know about the perpetuation of life and complex systems, thinking life could ultimately come from non life and that complex systems could come from non design is far, far more silly and fictional than the idea of an intelligent creator.
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Loveunderlaw — 9 years ago(August 31, 2016 04:46 AM)
MY PARENTS, AUNTS, UNCLES, ETC ACT JUST LIKE MS. CARMODY!!! AND WHAT'S GOING ON IN INDIA AGAINST THE HINDUS, BY THE ABRAHAMICS IS PURELY SHAMEFUL & EVIL IMO.
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Connor_Kenway — 9 years ago(May 28, 2016 09:36 PM)
She was clearly a fanatic. I don't think anyone would doubt that for even a second.
There's a difference between extremists, and rationalists. Both of the polar opposites, will always exist within any given religion, movement or other belief held systems. The extremists, are the ones giving - particularly Islam and Christianity - their religious practice a bad name.
The lady in the movie (forgot her name), was intentionally displayed as being clearly a nutcase right from the beginning; this is further reinforced by some of the locals claiming she was always like this, before the events at the supermarket.
The old biker dude, also made a point of this to the audience, when he said that he too believed in God, but not in the same way she did.
Hey, crazy lady, I believe in God, too. I just don't think he's the bloodthirsty beep you make him out to be.
So I don't think you have anything to prove here. If people are really that naive, to believe all Christians are like this, then there's nothing you can do or say, that will ever change their interpretations. Their minds have been preset already on the subject.