/christian/ - Christian Discussion and Fellowship

>>593659

“Overt” wasn’t really the right word for me to use. I just couldn’t think of the word to use

>>593645

Does anti-christian films that backfired counts?

>>593663

No, no, no…I read the book first and watched the movie. Disappointed: the message is distorted.Shusaku's book is about human failures, and God's love still being above all even in our fall. The moral of the movie is too often: be a Christian if you like, but just keep it to yourself. The literal message is: keep God confined to yourself, and, thus, into your churches, and let Him not go outside of these confinements. This is a deeply wrong and false message, as we must act and speak always with Christ in our actions, deeds, words.

I had hopes for this movie, but knowing Scorsese, a man who entered seminary and then left to fulfill a career as a director and sadly a servant of Hollywood as a result, I feared it would wind up becoming something like what we got in the end.

>>593740

I think in this case he would be "the exception which confirms the rule"; I am conflicted about the message of this movie, in all honesty: there are some good values, but we also know that there's a time for the sword too.

>>593685

No, this is a terrible movie…I liked some scenes, I liked some characters, but the message it conveys is terribly anti-Christian and it's still there even when looked at it "ironically"…also, I am tired of Italians being always portrayed as mobsters.

>>595716

Never seen it, what's that about?

>>593872

>also, I am tired of Italians being always portrayed as mobsters

Same. Especially considering just how Jewish and anti-Italian the mafia is and has always been. Also, even at it's height, the mafia only had a small percentage of Italians counted as members (and this percentage has only dropped more and more lately).

>>595933

a real masterpiece, it can be read on so many levels and with so many layers…

>>595945

t. not italian

> Also, even at it's height, the mafia only had a small percentage of Italians counted as members

dumbest thing i have ever heard

>>593872

>cant identify the protagonist are irish manlets so they are italian

>>593645

I havent watched it in awhile but iirc Walk the Line portrays Christianity in a positive light

>>595769

Catholic priest sent to convert natives. Former slaver repents. Natives to be sold to slavery

>>593658

The Narnia book series is a little too blatant in general, but I guess the movie makes the allegory a bit less obvious.

>>596449

>>593740

>a sad misreading of the Bible and Christ's message

>“But I say to you that if you are angry with a brother or sister, you will be liable to judgment; and if you insult a brother or sister, you will be liable to the council; and if you say, ‘You fool,’ you will be liable to the hell of fire.”

>“You have heard that it was said, ‘An eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth.’ But I say to you, Do not resist an evildoer.”

>“For if you love those who love you, what reward do you have? Do not even the tax collectors do the same? And if you greet only your brothers and sisters, what more are you doing than others? Do not even the Gentiles do the same? Be perfect, therefore, as your heavenly Father is perfect.”

>“Do not judge, so that you may not be judged. For with the judgment you make you will be judged, and the measure you give will be the measure you get.”

you sound like you set great store by earthly life, and wear your faith as a cultural garb and not in your heart. I was once like this. Please study again the message of Christ as be as he was.

>>593645

Count of Monte Cristo has Christian undertones in the story.

>No one posted blade runner or Ghost in the shell yet

Why is cyberpunk full of Christian themes and symbolism?

>>596492

because i just watched gits and balde runner 20 something recently and i think im special or something

>>593657

Been a while since I've thought about this movie/book. I remember writing an essay about it back in school about how Alex was a portrayal of a Nietzche's ubermensch but never made the Christian connection until now.

>>593657

I think the book throws a much more obvious light on it's Christian themes, not just because the movie omits the last chapter of the book. There's a lot of little passages here and there throughout that get missed, as happens in most film adaptations.