Well there you go, you answered your own question.
I would also not rule out "for the money." Even with dismal sales, who knows how little they cost to make. Or, a la The Producers, the folks involved could be getting a bunch of evangelicals to invest/donate and then scraping off the top. A CEO that makes outrageous amounts of money while the business fails is not exactly unusual.
An evil cold atheist Car Thief has to come to grips with the existence of God while attempting to steal the Pope-mobile, he accidentally steals an ambulance that has a Christian who's on her way to donate a kidney to save a dying orphan.
God's Not Dead 7 - God in Space
It will answer why God needs a space ship. In fact, God needs all the space ships, to defeat the evil gender fluid Fabiouso empire set on invading Earth.
God's Not Dead 8 - Saints on Patrol
A wacky comedy, when Saint Bartholomew and Saint Januarius decide to become cops to fight the evil atheist gay mafia. They have to take back the streets, one soul at a time.
God's Not Dead 9 - God's Gone Wild
A spring break trip for Saint Cecilia and Saint Bernadette takes a hilarious turn when they run into the awful woke atheist hotel manager. They will have to teach him what's it really like to party in Jesus's name.
God's Not Dead 10 - Weekend at Lazarus
Peter and Paul accidentally kill Jesus and hijinks ensue as the try to pretend to get the corpse of Christ ready for his marriage to the one true church, which is happening in a back yard wedding at Lazarus's house.
The problem isn't that there are too many God's not Dead movies. There are too few.
God's Not Dead 11 - The Infinity Grace.
God's back with avengeance. And just when the evil, atheist Jezebel pierces God's heart and is about to kill God. God says, "You should have gone for the head." Snaps his fingers and the evil sinful human race is erased righteously from existence.
God's Not Dead 12 - Godrunner.
Jesus faces the existential crisis of whether he is the real Jesus, or whether the real Jesus died on the cross, and he is just a replicants made by the church to keep the followers in line.
God's Not Dead 13 - Air Jesus.
Jesus, short and white, has to learn how to play basketball to save the rec center from being turned into a natural history museum by an a woke developer and his atheist scientist henchman.
There are decades and decades of these movies to make.
I am thoroughly sick of this right-wing Christian demand that I conform to their thinking, obey their rules, and bend knee to their Jesus just because they said so. I am heartsick over what these people are doing to the country I was born in, and I'm tired of these attempts to bludgeon my over the head to force my compliance. I honestly feel as though my home is being gleefully burned down by these Christian Nationalist madmen so they can have more money and power.
From everything I have seen, heard, and read so far the Christian Nationalist movement is not about fixing the nation's problems. It's about preserving and enhancing the money and power of a small group of people at the very top, and will ultimately lead to irreparable harm to the nation as a whole. I object to the methods, objectives, and attitudes of this movement in the strongest possible terms and will continue to do so. No asinine film about how 'god is still out there!!' will make me change my mind. I refuse to subscribe to the Christian fantasy that their Jesus will fix everything if we all march in lockstep to the whims of their leaders.
Images of actors crying over bibles no longer has any power to move me. I refuse to allow this attempted manipulation of my emotions to control my vote or my money. Enough is enough.
Thanks for coming to my TED talk, you folks have a great day. :p
It seems to me that before they assert the claim God's not dead, shouldn't they first demonstrate he exists? This absurd film panders to the Christians who forever see themselves as poor, persecuted victims just because they can't force their religion on others. No group would be quicker to persecute others given the opportunity.
Another trump ploy months before the election. Never even heard of the God's not Dead movies before. In your face over jealous, fanatical Christianity for 2 fing hours? That's a hell no from me. And still voting for President Biden. No you fing deal with that trump.
Pretty sure he's got nothing to do with this. Though if the movie producers are smart, they will use Jan 6 martyr motifs to bring in viewers.
Though I'm hoping they go Satanic. There's been tons of stuff in Hemant's feed lately that could easily be make into a movie. Just pulling from the last month or so:
1. "All starts off well." Good guys finally get "religious freedom" - mandatory 10C posters and bible readings in every school class, and the freedom for religious clubs.
2. "Enter the villains" Women satanists (goth attire a must) take unfair advantage of this freedom to demand a legal right to groom children for trans pedophilic satanism.
3. "Descent" First court case ends with Satanists winning! The judge finds that the religious freedom law applies to all religions, and that SCOTUS has ruled atheism and satanism are religions for the purposes of law. (Then cut to a scene in the judges home, where he's trying on ladies underwear. Because, secret villain.)
4. "Victory and Reemergence". Retrial. SCOTUS rules that Satanism and atheism are not religions because they don't honor Jesus, and the 1A religious freedoms only applies to Christianity! Just the way Jesus intended when he wrote the Constitution! Cut to scene showing the former satanists dressed in cis-appropriate pastel Izod, talking about how much happier they are as housewives letting their husbands make all the decisions for them.
The first movie predates Trump's political career, so no, "these movies" were not designed with his political career in mind. This particular one might fold in some support. Assuming the writers are able to handle "supporting Trump" and "attacking secularism" at the same time. In the past, figuratively walking and chewing gum at the same time was not one of these movies' strengths.
Okay so the first movie predates trump. Considering the election is roughly four months away and it has nothing, no ties to trump? Why not just release it after the election?
Money. Thanks to Trump stirring the septic tank, Nat-C emotions are running on overdrive. Releasing this movie, which appeals directly to their lizard brains, will pretty much guarantee viewership, which translates into ticket sales, which translates into “box office success”, which translates into looking more attractive for investors, which translates into guaranteed investors for future movies.
The most I've ever seen of the God's Not Dead series was a trailer for the first one, and it was ridiculously bad. Trust me when I say, you haven't missed a damned thing.
I have seen the first two. Both are indeed two hours of in your face preaching. Beyond that, as movies? The first was really bad. Too many subplots, at least one of which was forgotten about halfway through. Zero character development. The second was almost ok. Fewer subplots and the returning characters, while still showing no development, appeared to benefit from one or two acting lessons. At the end of each they run a list of court cases they claim are people being punished for being Christian. When you actually look at the cases, you realize they are lying.
But we know the folks watch this shit won't look up any court cases. They're too intellectually lazy to do anything other than let these carnival hucksters tell them what to think.
You'll never believe what producer of a classic horror movie (the last time he was interviewed, in an issue of Starlog) was doing ; he was making this kind of movie. Yes, Jack H. Harris, the man responsible for The Blob was making one of these Christofascist bullshit movies.
Condolences. I HAVEN'T watched it, mostly because I've seen enough others like it to know their chops and that they have nothing to say that I haven't already heard.
I just saw that the NPF just told all it's third-place finishers to concede, so as to not split the anti-La Pen vote.
Would that Kennedy would come out and say "yeah, Biden's got issues...but Trump's an evil autocrat who has already drawn up a list of political opponents he's going to jail. So to all my supporters, vote Dem."
Tan suits? They made a big deal out of Barack Obama wearing one (Bill Clinton also wore one), yet not a peep about George HW Bush, George W Bush or even Dwight D Eisenhower doing the same. Seems a bit of a double standard.
They freaked out over Obama bowing to the Japanese but said not a thing about Bush the Lesser holding hands with the Saudis. Or Trump bowing to a Saudi king.
I assume you know that was common – my grandfather wore one, and my father had a long curly hair. Just like a girl. I used to point to his picture in the 1960s and 70s when he was forever telling me to get a haircut. His answer was "It was the fashion in those days." He never quite saw the flaw in that logic.
Depends of where I guess. I remember a professional picture of my paternal grandfather when he was 4 years old, so around 1921. He had short, slicked hair and a suit with a tie.
Yes, Jon Stewart put the lie to that, showing a picture of every president since WWll wearing a tan suit, as the meme said: It's not the tan suit, it's the tan president.
If the "bad guy" in the movie is simply saying "separation of church and state is good", it would seem that this movie is promoting removing that part of the Constitution. This is in line with the Christian Nationalist string of legal wins putting the Ten Commandments and the Bible in schools in various Bible Belt states. Coupled with making all abortion illegal in various states, this is indeed part of a wider movement. If you read the platform of Project 2025, it is a deeply disturbing movement.
God's not dead 6 : Missionary position for a French nudist camp*.
* Evilgelical version of "Mon curé chez les nudistes" (My priest at a nudist camp). It's Leslie Nielsen type of humor.
By the way, this stings.
"Evangelical Michael Gerson, however, was highly critical of the film and its message, writing "The main problem with God's Not Dead is not its cosmology or ethics but its anthropology. It assumes that human beings are made out of cardboard. Academics are arrogant and cruel. Liberal bloggers are preening and snarky. Unbelievers disbelieve because of personal demons. It is characterization by caricature."[24] John Mulderig echoed similar concerns in his review for the Catholic News Service, stating: "There might be the kernel of an intriguing documentary buried within director Harold Cronk's stacked-deck drama, given the extent of real-life academic hostility toward religion. But even faith-filled moviegoers will sense the claustrophobia of the echo chamber within which this largely unrealistic picture unfolds."[25]"
In other words, it's straw man after straw man, constructed then dismantled by the film's producers in order to convince its audience that they know what they're talking about, when an examination of the evidence clearly shows that they are lying through their teeth.
Because they can see NO possibility that THEIR religion can ever ever ever ever ever ever EVER EVER be wrong. Therefore it MUST be everyone else who is wrong.
Another alternate title: "God's Not Dead: Projection!"
What they are really trying to do is claim that the term "Christian Nationalist" is a derogatory slur the same way they use "woke" in order to get people to equate opposition to Christian Nationalism with opposition to Christianity.
The previous record holder was Hurricane Emily, of the memorable 2005 season, which reached Category 5 intensity on July 16th of that year before being completely overshadowed by Katrina, which any good Republican will tell you was caused by Obama eating Dijon mustard three years later.
But hey, look on the bright side- climate change is just a hoax perpetrated by Big Weather! I'm sure Jamaica has nothing to worry about.
But electric vehicles are a commie plot to tank the economy. (I actually like mine quite a lot. Especially with the volatility of gas prices lately. Seems like every other day they're bouncing up or down 20-30 cents. It does extend a road trip and if a charging station goes out, you can get stranded)
I like EVs, in theory. In practice, I hate all of the other features passenger vehicles have been loaded down with so much that I'll probably never own one unless I win the lottery and can convert my rusty beater into a rusty beater with a battery.
Or unless somebody finally produces an EV with a dashboard full of old-fashioned tactile buttons and knobs instead of a fucking touchscreen controlling half or more of the car's functions. In this, I might just be the most Boomer-ish Millennial on the planet. My kingdom for an alternate reality where touchscreens were a dead-end technology that never went anywhere...
Or, far more likely, my beater rusts right out from under me and I have to grit my teeth and tolerate whatever unpleasantly-automated thing it has to be replaced with because that's just how 𝘢𝘥𝘶𝘭𝘵𝘪𝘯𝘨 works. But a gal can dream.
I love the technology. Being able to listen to commercial free music. Not have radio stations fade out on you when traveling (too many areas in Texas where country is all you can find on the airwaves). Hands-free calling. Navigation with traffic updates. The touchscreen is a mixed bag. It's flexible, but you have to look at it to make a selection.
You always have the hope the NTHSA will outlaw touchscreen as too distracting. Of course, by the time, the cars will be driving themselves and distraction won't be an issue. (At least the cars will know how to merge)
Oh, I love technology... it's the 𝘮𝘪𝘴𝘢𝘱𝘱𝘭𝘪𝘤𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 of technology that annoys me. Touchscreens are worse at being screens (requiring more frequent cleaning because your fingers are all over them all the time) and worse at being buttons (because of the lack of tactile feedback and the necessity of looking at the on-screen controls to operate them), but have wound up mostly replacing both in almost 𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘺 application that requires either.
This often results in making the entire device worse for the sake of "streamlining" both input and output into the same physical space. When physical space is at a premium- as in, for example, a smartphone, which has to fit in your pocket- a touchscreen makes perfect sense. Smaller is better, and just being able to do a thing by pointing a finger at it makes for an intuitive and responsive GUI for quick tasks that require few physical inputs.
When you have an entire vehicle dashboard to work with, on the other hand, and having to look at the controls to use them is a safety concern, or if you need to push a lot of buttons repeatedly for a long time (as when typing more than a few sentences), there are a lot of very good reasons to 𝘯𝘰𝘵 use that kind of interface. Regardless of how much cheaper it is to tie a whole system through one panel, or how cool and futuristic the techbro billionaire who owns the company thinks the product looks with just one shiny screen to do everything with, sometimes there needs to be a grownup in the room to put their foot down and insist on building the device for its purpose rather than for its looks or its manufacturing cost.
...and I just spent way, way, 𝘸𝘢𝘺 too much time ranting about touchscreens, didn't I?
Eh. ‘s alright. I find using one somewhat distracting, and usually use the voice assistant. (I just wish android auto and the steering wheel control for it were better integrated. I also wish for better integration between apps and voice assistant on Android in general.
Using apps tactile buttons would have to be stateful and/or numerous to handle all the controls. The flexibility of the touchscreen works better there, but it is distracting. Amazon music, for example, doesn’t store it’s state between runs, so if the app is killed for battery or updated, you have to select what you want to play the next time you get in the car. And, mostly unsurprisingly, Amazon music and google assistant don’t understand each other very well.
Said commercial free music being satellite radio (Sirus XM) that's just bland and boring 'stations' playing the same kind of music genre you've selected that's your favorite? Sorry, but in addition to the cost of the service each month on top of gas, insurance, and maintenance fees, I'd rather just have a car stereo with a CD player in it and the capability to hook up a smartphone/MP3 player so that I can listen to my own music (on my computer that has iTunes on it, that's a ton of different music from different genres, all mixed together) instead of that (it would be even more amazing if auto sound systems had this feature [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autofahrer-Rundfunk-Informationssystem ] that allowed you to listen to your own music from a CD or from an MP3 player, but that would cut into the the CD or MP3 player to give you traffic info or very important info like Amber Alerts, then cut back to the music.) Even more amazing than that is just having a hard drive in the car instead of a radio that would allow you to fill it up with whatever music you like to hear.
It's too bad that satellite radio tech's been allowed to be in the hands of one company and not opened up so that anybody can set up a radio station and broadcast it on satellite; it would be interesting to hear what stations would result from such a thing (I will admit to liking SOME of the special talk radio programs/channels that are on satellite, such as the one on SirusXM that's focused on Broadway music and musicals), one of these being the very radical radio stations that broadcast only on cable in the early to mid-'70's in the United States (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cable_radio#United_States) and which were free-form stations that broadcast rock which WASN'T commercial.
Personally, I am still for a hydrogen-powered EV. You lose the issue of batteries (mostly) and their manufacture and (one hopes) recycling. The obvious problem is the hydrogen filling station infrastructure that would be required, never mind the fact that hydrogen is fussy stuff to handle.
Still, I don't think those problems are insuperable, and I'd still very much like to see that happen.
There is someone in my community who is a huge cheerleader for hydrogen powered cars. I know nothing about the technology but I have been dubious because this same guy also talks up the chem trail conspiracy and the US government was behind the 9/11 attack conspiracy.
While my expertise is not in mechanical or chemical engineering, I have a fair understanding of what it takes to contain and meter hydrogen. Put simply, it's not easy, but I feel as though if the efforts are made in research and engineering, solutions will come forward.
Put simply, it's something I'd love to see happen, as an alternative to battery-powered vehicles.
The problem is unfortunately simple: touch screens are less expensive to implement than electromechanical push buttons. My Genesis G70 is thankfully graced with actual push buttons, where my wife's Hyundai Tucson is almost entirely touch screen and is occasionally maddening.
I hate to say it, but I suspect that touch screens are going to become more and more the rule and not the exception.
That's why I really like my weird hybrid where the motor just runs in order to charge the battery, and it gets somewhere around about 70 or 80 miles to the Imperial gallon. I assume it's an Imperial gallon – it's just what it says on the dashboard. In theory it has a range of about 800 km, so no range anxiety at all. And it only takes five minutes to fill up rather than half an hour to charge.
My previous Plug-in Hybrid had a 25-28 mile range on electric and about 350 mile on gas. It wasn’t too bad since I live less than 5 miles from the office, even if I’m going in everyday, but I still had to fill up every 2-3 months. I’d really like a PHEV that could get a 100 mile electric on a charge and gas of around 150 or more. But only one company made something like that and they quit after 2 years.
The hour charge does break up a long trip, but it takes a lot longer to get there.
Sounds great. I hope it's not one of those it's 5 to 10 years away – just like nuclear fusion, which remains 5 to 10 years away forever. But I think my present car will see me out. :)
Since I was 28 and I'd like to strangle the person who decided hamburger buns need sesame seeds. Even without the diverticulitis, I'm not crazy about eating something that looks the same going out as it did going in.
God's Not Dead- five movies in, and the main character has yet to put in an appearance. What other franchise could get away with that? You wouldn't watch a Batman movie that didn't have Batman in it; why would you watch a God movie without God in it?
I’m sure there will be a shell company buying out theaters to run up the sales numbers like they did with the one about the guy who supposedly saved kids from human trafficking (but actually interferes in real human trafficking investigations). And I would t be surprised that all the other sequels to this had some sort of shenanigans boosting the revenues as well. Even if it wasn’t that obvious. I know the church crowd bought up theaters to watch as a group, like they buy up books to store in the church basement to artificially inflate the book into NYT bestsellers. They do nothing honestly.
"For those of you who stopped following this series a while ago, "
Correction, "For those of you who never heard of the franchise before stumbling onto my blog and who have loved to NOT know about it" 😇
True, but this thing about "knowing thine enemy" has advantages.
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𝑖𝑓 𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑟𝑒’𝑠 𝑛𝑜 𝑜𝑝𝑒𝑛 𝑎𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑖𝑠𝑡 𝑖𝑛 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑚𝑜𝑣𝑖𝑒, 𝑤ℎ𝑦 𝑖𝑠 𝑡ℎ𝑖𝑠 𝑓𝑟𝑎𝑛𝑐ℎ𝑖𝑠𝑒 𝑠𝑡𝑖𝑙𝑙 𝑔𝑜𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑜𝑛? 𝑇ℎ𝑒 𝑛𝑒𝑤 𝑓𝑖𝑙𝑚 𝑖𝑠 𝑗𝑢𝑠𝑡 𝑎 𝑤𝑎𝑦 𝑡𝑜 𝑚𝑖𝑙𝑘 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑡𝑖𝑡𝑙𝑒 𝑜𝑓 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑓𝑖𝑟𝑠𝑡 𝑓𝑖𝑙𝑚 𝑡𝑜 𝑠𝑒𝑙𝑙 𝑠𝑜𝑚𝑒 𝑜𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑟 𝑘𝑖𝑛𝑑 𝑜𝑓 𝐶ℎ𝑟𝑖𝑠𝑡𝑖𝑎𝑛 𝑝𝑟𝑜𝑝𝑎𝑔𝑎𝑛𝑑𝑎
Well there you go, you answered your own question.
I would also not rule out "for the money." Even with dismal sales, who knows how little they cost to make. Or, a la The Producers, the folks involved could be getting a bunch of evangelicals to invest/donate and then scraping off the top. A CEO that makes outrageous amounts of money while the business fails is not exactly unusual.
Makes me wonder if the actors donated their performances.
God's Not Dead 6 -2 Dead 2 Fast.
An evil cold atheist Car Thief has to come to grips with the existence of God while attempting to steal the Pope-mobile, he accidentally steals an ambulance that has a Christian who's on her way to donate a kidney to save a dying orphan.
God's Not Dead 7 - God in Space
It will answer why God needs a space ship. In fact, God needs all the space ships, to defeat the evil gender fluid Fabiouso empire set on invading Earth.
God's Not Dead 8 - Saints on Patrol
A wacky comedy, when Saint Bartholomew and Saint Januarius decide to become cops to fight the evil atheist gay mafia. They have to take back the streets, one soul at a time.
God's Not Dead 9 - God's Gone Wild
A spring break trip for Saint Cecilia and Saint Bernadette takes a hilarious turn when they run into the awful woke atheist hotel manager. They will have to teach him what's it really like to party in Jesus's name.
God's Not Dead 10 - Weekend at Lazarus
Peter and Paul accidentally kill Jesus and hijinks ensue as the try to pretend to get the corpse of Christ ready for his marriage to the one true church, which is happening in a back yard wedding at Lazarus's house.
The problem isn't that there are too many God's not Dead movies. There are too few.
God's Not Dead 11 - The Infinity Grace.
God's back with avengeance. And just when the evil, atheist Jezebel pierces God's heart and is about to kill God. God says, "You should have gone for the head." Snaps his fingers and the evil sinful human race is erased righteously from existence.
God's Not Dead 12 - Godrunner.
Jesus faces the existential crisis of whether he is the real Jesus, or whether the real Jesus died on the cross, and he is just a replicants made by the church to keep the followers in line.
God's Not Dead 13 - Air Jesus.
Jesus, short and white, has to learn how to play basketball to save the rec center from being turned into a natural history museum by an a woke developer and his atheist scientist henchman.
There are decades and decades of these movies to make.
"They will have to teach him what's it really like to party in Jesus's name. "
Does he require...a spanking?
Nah, he seems more of a whip kind of guy.
"And after the spanking, the oral sex!"
8, the movie with Bud Spencer and Terence Hill DM watched yesterday 🤣
𝘎𝘰𝘥 𝘍𝘰𝘳𝘨𝘪𝘷𝘦𝘴... 𝘐 𝘋𝘰𝘯'𝘵! ?
Seems to be this one, but not sure
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crime_Busters
No sé. She watch them in French.
You need to set up your own production company. :D
I'm thinking it's already on the dark web.
Any chance they'll be brought to light?
(SWIDT?) :D
Brilliant!
*bows*
Thank you, kind Z's. I take my small moments of happiness anywhere I can find them :)
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I'll second that! These ideas are a scream!
I am thriller by your comment.
:D
I like the idea for GND10. Matter of fact, I think all future GND movies should be based on stories that prominently feature a dead guy.
Allow me a moment to vent some frustration here.
I am thoroughly sick of this right-wing Christian demand that I conform to their thinking, obey their rules, and bend knee to their Jesus just because they said so. I am heartsick over what these people are doing to the country I was born in, and I'm tired of these attempts to bludgeon my over the head to force my compliance. I honestly feel as though my home is being gleefully burned down by these Christian Nationalist madmen so they can have more money and power.
From everything I have seen, heard, and read so far the Christian Nationalist movement is not about fixing the nation's problems. It's about preserving and enhancing the money and power of a small group of people at the very top, and will ultimately lead to irreparable harm to the nation as a whole. I object to the methods, objectives, and attitudes of this movement in the strongest possible terms and will continue to do so. No asinine film about how 'god is still out there!!' will make me change my mind. I refuse to subscribe to the Christian fantasy that their Jesus will fix everything if we all march in lockstep to the whims of their leaders.
Images of actors crying over bibles no longer has any power to move me. I refuse to allow this attempted manipulation of my emotions to control my vote or my money. Enough is enough.
Thanks for coming to my TED talk, you folks have a great day. :p
A Whitney talk beats a ted talk every time.
Especially a Ted Fucking Cruz talk.
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It seems to me that before they assert the claim God's not dead, shouldn't they first demonstrate he exists? This absurd film panders to the Christians who forever see themselves as poor, persecuted victims just because they can't force their religion on others. No group would be quicker to persecute others given the opportunity.
As has been done so many times before. Just sad. People never learn that next to politics, religion is deadly.
Believers, acting in the name of their beliefs, have spilled enough blood to float the Navy.
Another trump ploy months before the election. Never even heard of the God's not Dead movies before. In your face over jealous, fanatical Christianity for 2 fing hours? That's a hell no from me. And still voting for President Biden. No you fing deal with that trump.
Pretty sure he's got nothing to do with this. Though if the movie producers are smart, they will use Jan 6 martyr motifs to bring in viewers.
Though I'm hoping they go Satanic. There's been tons of stuff in Hemant's feed lately that could easily be make into a movie. Just pulling from the last month or so:
1. "All starts off well." Good guys finally get "religious freedom" - mandatory 10C posters and bible readings in every school class, and the freedom for religious clubs.
2. "Enter the villains" Women satanists (goth attire a must) take unfair advantage of this freedom to demand a legal right to groom children for trans pedophilic satanism.
3. "Descent" First court case ends with Satanists winning! The judge finds that the religious freedom law applies to all religions, and that SCOTUS has ruled atheism and satanism are religions for the purposes of law. (Then cut to a scene in the judges home, where he's trying on ladies underwear. Because, secret villain.)
4. "Victory and Reemergence". Retrial. SCOTUS rules that Satanism and atheism are not religions because they don't honor Jesus, and the 1A religious freedoms only applies to Christianity! Just the way Jesus intended when he wrote the Constitution! Cut to scene showing the former satanists dressed in cis-appropriate pastel Izod, talking about how much happier they are as housewives letting their husbands make all the decisions for them.
Just as believable as the rest of them.
All is hilarious, but the "cis-appropriate pastel Izod" just slays me! :D
So my worst nightmare, basically.
PS--Those of us of a pagan persuasion really appreciate Satanists taking one for the team.
Would that make us two Pagans on this blog ?
Or three?
Jamais deux sans trois :)
They rock, actually both rock!
I think these movies definetly had one intent -- get trump re-elected.
The first movie predates Trump's political career, so no, "these movies" were not designed with his political career in mind. This particular one might fold in some support. Assuming the writers are able to handle "supporting Trump" and "attacking secularism" at the same time. In the past, figuratively walking and chewing gum at the same time was not one of these movies' strengths.
Okay so the first movie predates trump. Considering the election is roughly four months away and it has nothing, no ties to trump? Why not just release it after the election?
Money. Thanks to Trump stirring the septic tank, Nat-C emotions are running on overdrive. Releasing this movie, which appeals directly to their lizard brains, will pretty much guarantee viewership, which translates into ticket sales, which translates into “box office success”, which translates into looking more attractive for investors, which translates into guaranteed investors for future movies.
Except that is not happening.
The most I've ever seen of the God's Not Dead series was a trailer for the first one, and it was ridiculously bad. Trust me when I say, you haven't missed a damned thing.
I have seen the first two. Both are indeed two hours of in your face preaching. Beyond that, as movies? The first was really bad. Too many subplots, at least one of which was forgotten about halfway through. Zero character development. The second was almost ok. Fewer subplots and the returning characters, while still showing no development, appeared to benefit from one or two acting lessons. At the end of each they run a list of court cases they claim are people being punished for being Christian. When you actually look at the cases, you realize they are lying.
The first one was loosely based on a Jack Chick tract ("Big Daddy?").
How could it be anything but horrendous? I mean besides Kevin Sorbo being the centerpiece.
Thank you for your sacrifice!
But we know the folks watch this shit won't look up any court cases. They're too intellectually lazy to do anything other than let these carnival hucksters tell them what to think.
You'll never believe what producer of a classic horror movie (the last time he was interviewed, in an issue of Starlog) was doing ; he was making this kind of movie. Yes, Jack H. Harris, the man responsible for The Blob was making one of these Christofascist bullshit movies.
Okay so I watched the trailer embedded in the article above. I just felt so sick to my stomach awful afterwards.
Condolences. I HAVEN'T watched it, mostly because I've seen enough others like it to know their chops and that they have nothing to say that I haven't already heard.
*Give ginger and mint candies*
Vote for Biden that will make this country and me feel much better!
I will, if you vote for L'ensemble pour la République*" coalition next Sunday.
* You are allowed to do it while pinching your nose. As bad as micron is, he is still better than lapeine.
Am.I wrong in saying LaPen is just a Nazi in designer clothing?
I just saw that the NPF just told all it's third-place finishers to concede, so as to not split the anti-La Pen vote.
Would that Kennedy would come out and say "yeah, Biden's got issues...but Trump's an evil autocrat who has already drawn up a list of political opponents he's going to jail. So to all my supporters, vote Dem."
Maybe.
Good, I'm not alone. in either thing!
Wow. Reagan is wearing a brown suit in this video. Where is the right's outrage?
THE RIGHT: "That's different! Because...reasons!"
Tan suits? They made a big deal out of Barack Obama wearing one (Bill Clinton also wore one), yet not a peep about George HW Bush, George W Bush or even Dwight D Eisenhower doing the same. Seems a bit of a double standard.
Or Roosevelt wearing a dress when he was a child.
They freaked out over Obama bowing to the Japanese but said not a thing about Bush the Lesser holding hands with the Saudis. Or Trump bowing to a Saudi king.
Michelle Obama refusing to cover her head in Saudi Arabia.
Trump saluted North Korean general, IIRC.
Trump invited Al-qaeda to Camp David.
I assume you know that was common – my grandfather wore one, and my father had a long curly hair. Just like a girl. I used to point to his picture in the 1960s and 70s when he was forever telling me to get a haircut. His answer was "It was the fashion in those days." He never quite saw the flaw in that logic.
Depends of where I guess. I remember a professional picture of my paternal grandfather when he was 4 years old, so around 1921. He had short, slicked hair and a suit with a tie.
Even Jesus wore a dress and had long hair, but you don’t hear the Reichwing complain about that!
Nah, he wore badly tailored suits with overpriced gold sneakers and had the same hairstyle as Clark Gable.
You had me until 'seems'.
Yes, Jon Stewart put the lie to that, showing a picture of every president since WWll wearing a tan suit, as the meme said: It's not the tan suit, it's the tan president.
The ONLY black man these racist assholes wanted to be POTUS was Colin Powell.
It also has to do with the amount of melanin in the lower epidermis. 🤔
If Seth Andrews and The Thinking Atheist produced one of these:
"God's Not Dead: He Never Existed."
Or God’s Not Dead: Which God?
A Battle Royale between all gods inside an enormous steel cage.
The last one being sacrificed to honor the ones who died.
Dionysus and Ninkasi should have a drinking contest instead.
We aren't Klingons. A simple gas chamber will do.
My money's on Kali the Destroyer. Not only is destruction her specialty, the extra arms mean she can handle multiple opponents better.
Pinin' for the fjords.....
That won't solve your problems.
If the "bad guy" in the movie is simply saying "separation of church and state is good", it would seem that this movie is promoting removing that part of the Constitution. This is in line with the Christian Nationalist string of legal wins putting the Ten Commandments and the Bible in schools in various Bible Belt states. Coupled with making all abortion illegal in various states, this is indeed part of a wider movement. If you read the platform of Project 2025, it is a deeply disturbing movement.
God's not dead 6 : Missionary position for a French nudist camp*.
* Evilgelical version of "Mon curé chez les nudistes" (My priest at a nudist camp). It's Leslie Nielsen type of humor.
By the way, this stings.
"Evangelical Michael Gerson, however, was highly critical of the film and its message, writing "The main problem with God's Not Dead is not its cosmology or ethics but its anthropology. It assumes that human beings are made out of cardboard. Academics are arrogant and cruel. Liberal bloggers are preening and snarky. Unbelievers disbelieve because of personal demons. It is characterization by caricature."[24] John Mulderig echoed similar concerns in his review for the Catholic News Service, stating: "There might be the kernel of an intriguing documentary buried within director Harold Cronk's stacked-deck drama, given the extent of real-life academic hostility toward religion. But even faith-filled moviegoers will sense the claustrophobia of the echo chamber within which this largely unrealistic picture unfolds."[25]"
In other words, it's straw man after straw man, constructed then dismantled by the film's producers in order to convince its audience that they know what they're talking about, when an examination of the evidence clearly shows that they are lying through their teeth.
Sadly, this is nothing new.
Just someone who uses straw men to dehumanise non-Christians complaining about someone using straw men to dehumanise non-Christians.
It’s a straw man eat straw man world out there.
They never ask themselves WHY academia is hostile to religion.
Yep, christianity can rue the day it created its version of Ancient Greek Academies in 11th century.
Because they can see NO possibility that THEIR religion can ever ever ever ever ever ever EVER EVER be wrong. Therefore it MUST be everyone else who is wrong.
Or, indeed, the opposite question - why their religion is hostile to academia.
“𝑊ℎ𝑒𝑛𝑒𝑣𝑒𝑟 𝑎𝑛𝑦𝑜𝑛𝑒 𝑜𝑓 𝑓𝑎𝑖𝑡ℎ 𝑝𝑟𝑜𝑚𝑜𝑡𝑒𝑠 𝑎 𝑝𝑜𝑙𝑖𝑐𝑦 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑦𝑜𝑢 𝑑𝑜𝑛'𝑡 𝑙𝑖𝑘𝑒, 𝑦𝑜𝑢 𝑙𝑎𝑏𝑒𝑙 𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑚 𝑎 𝐶ℎ𝑟𝑖𝑠𝑡𝑖𝑎𝑛 𝑁𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛𝑎𝑙𝑖𝑠𝑡!”
Another alternate title: "God's Not Dead: Projection!"
What they are really trying to do is claim that the term "Christian Nationalist" is a derogatory slur the same way they use "woke" in order to get people to equate opposition to Christian Nationalism with opposition to Christianity.
They live in opposite world.
The SCOTUS is only going to encourage Christians to claim they're being persecuted by not being allowed to persecute others.
OT- As of last night, Hurricane Beryl became the earliest-in-season Category 5 hurricane on record in the Atlantic Basin: https://www.nhc.noaa.gov/archive/2024/al02/al022024.discus.014.shtml?
The previous record holder was Hurricane Emily, of the memorable 2005 season, which reached Category 5 intensity on July 16th of that year before being completely overshadowed by Katrina, which any good Republican will tell you was caused by Obama eating Dijon mustard three years later.
But hey, look on the bright side- climate change is just a hoax perpetrated by Big Weather! I'm sure Jamaica has nothing to worry about.
But electric vehicles are a commie plot to tank the economy. (I actually like mine quite a lot. Especially with the volatility of gas prices lately. Seems like every other day they're bouncing up or down 20-30 cents. It does extend a road trip and if a charging station goes out, you can get stranded)
I like EVs, in theory. In practice, I hate all of the other features passenger vehicles have been loaded down with so much that I'll probably never own one unless I win the lottery and can convert my rusty beater into a rusty beater with a battery.
Or unless somebody finally produces an EV with a dashboard full of old-fashioned tactile buttons and knobs instead of a fucking touchscreen controlling half or more of the car's functions. In this, I might just be the most Boomer-ish Millennial on the planet. My kingdom for an alternate reality where touchscreens were a dead-end technology that never went anywhere...
Or, far more likely, my beater rusts right out from under me and I have to grit my teeth and tolerate whatever unpleasantly-automated thing it has to be replaced with because that's just how 𝘢𝘥𝘶𝘭𝘵𝘪𝘯𝘨 works. But a gal can dream.
I love the technology. Being able to listen to commercial free music. Not have radio stations fade out on you when traveling (too many areas in Texas where country is all you can find on the airwaves). Hands-free calling. Navigation with traffic updates. The touchscreen is a mixed bag. It's flexible, but you have to look at it to make a selection.
You always have the hope the NTHSA will outlaw touchscreen as too distracting. Of course, by the time, the cars will be driving themselves and distraction won't be an issue. (At least the cars will know how to merge)
Oh, I love technology... it's the 𝘮𝘪𝘴𝘢𝘱𝘱𝘭𝘪𝘤𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 of technology that annoys me. Touchscreens are worse at being screens (requiring more frequent cleaning because your fingers are all over them all the time) and worse at being buttons (because of the lack of tactile feedback and the necessity of looking at the on-screen controls to operate them), but have wound up mostly replacing both in almost 𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘺 application that requires either.
This often results in making the entire device worse for the sake of "streamlining" both input and output into the same physical space. When physical space is at a premium- as in, for example, a smartphone, which has to fit in your pocket- a touchscreen makes perfect sense. Smaller is better, and just being able to do a thing by pointing a finger at it makes for an intuitive and responsive GUI for quick tasks that require few physical inputs.
When you have an entire vehicle dashboard to work with, on the other hand, and having to look at the controls to use them is a safety concern, or if you need to push a lot of buttons repeatedly for a long time (as when typing more than a few sentences), there are a lot of very good reasons to 𝘯𝘰𝘵 use that kind of interface. Regardless of how much cheaper it is to tie a whole system through one panel, or how cool and futuristic the techbro billionaire who owns the company thinks the product looks with just one shiny screen to do everything with, sometimes there needs to be a grownup in the room to put their foot down and insist on building the device for its purpose rather than for its looks or its manufacturing cost.
...and I just spent way, way, 𝘸𝘢𝘺 too much time ranting about touchscreens, didn't I?
Eh. ‘s alright. I find using one somewhat distracting, and usually use the voice assistant. (I just wish android auto and the steering wheel control for it were better integrated. I also wish for better integration between apps and voice assistant on Android in general.
Using apps tactile buttons would have to be stateful and/or numerous to handle all the controls. The flexibility of the touchscreen works better there, but it is distracting. Amazon music, for example, doesn’t store it’s state between runs, so if the app is killed for battery or updated, you have to select what you want to play the next time you get in the car. And, mostly unsurprisingly, Amazon music and google assistant don’t understand each other very well.
'Being able to listen to commercial free music.'
Said commercial free music being satellite radio (Sirus XM) that's just bland and boring 'stations' playing the same kind of music genre you've selected that's your favorite? Sorry, but in addition to the cost of the service each month on top of gas, insurance, and maintenance fees, I'd rather just have a car stereo with a CD player in it and the capability to hook up a smartphone/MP3 player so that I can listen to my own music (on my computer that has iTunes on it, that's a ton of different music from different genres, all mixed together) instead of that (it would be even more amazing if auto sound systems had this feature [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autofahrer-Rundfunk-Informationssystem ] that allowed you to listen to your own music from a CD or from an MP3 player, but that would cut into the the CD or MP3 player to give you traffic info or very important info like Amber Alerts, then cut back to the music.) Even more amazing than that is just having a hard drive in the car instead of a radio that would allow you to fill it up with whatever music you like to hear.
It's too bad that satellite radio tech's been allowed to be in the hands of one company and not opened up so that anybody can set up a radio station and broadcast it on satellite; it would be interesting to hear what stations would result from such a thing (I will admit to liking SOME of the special talk radio programs/channels that are on satellite, such as the one on SirusXM that's focused on Broadway music and musicals), one of these being the very radical radio stations that broadcast only on cable in the early to mid-'70's in the United States (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cable_radio#United_States) and which were free-form stations that broadcast rock which WASN'T commercial.
Also Amazon Music, Spotify, or other services. Not just SiriusXM. In fact I let my subscription lapse after the free period and haven't missed it.
Personally, I am still for a hydrogen-powered EV. You lose the issue of batteries (mostly) and their manufacture and (one hopes) recycling. The obvious problem is the hydrogen filling station infrastructure that would be required, never mind the fact that hydrogen is fussy stuff to handle.
Still, I don't think those problems are insuperable, and I'd still very much like to see that happen.
There is someone in my community who is a huge cheerleader for hydrogen powered cars. I know nothing about the technology but I have been dubious because this same guy also talks up the chem trail conspiracy and the US government was behind the 9/11 attack conspiracy.
You mean he might be right about something?
While my expertise is not in mechanical or chemical engineering, I have a fair understanding of what it takes to contain and meter hydrogen. Put simply, it's not easy, but I feel as though if the efforts are made in research and engineering, solutions will come forward.
Put simply, it's something I'd love to see happen, as an alternative to battery-powered vehicles.
Hydrogen-powered TRAINS are already here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydrogen_train#:~:text=Hydrail%20vehicles%20use%20the%20chemical%20energy%20of%20hydrogen#:~:text=Hydrail%20vehicles%20use%20the%20chemical%20energy%20of%20hydrogen
Replacing a battery pack can cost $16,000 to $28,000 n(US)
In general they're warrantied for 8 years.
The problem is unfortunately simple: touch screens are less expensive to implement than electromechanical push buttons. My Genesis G70 is thankfully graced with actual push buttons, where my wife's Hyundai Tucson is almost entirely touch screen and is occasionally maddening.
I hate to say it, but I suspect that touch screens are going to become more and more the rule and not the exception.
A la ST:TNG
https://thedevilspanties.com/archives/16221
That's why I really like my weird hybrid where the motor just runs in order to charge the battery, and it gets somewhere around about 70 or 80 miles to the Imperial gallon. I assume it's an Imperial gallon – it's just what it says on the dashboard. In theory it has a range of about 800 km, so no range anxiety at all. And it only takes five minutes to fill up rather than half an hour to charge.
As opposed to the Alliance gallon?
Hutt gallon.
My previous Plug-in Hybrid had a 25-28 mile range on electric and about 350 mile on gas. It wasn’t too bad since I live less than 5 miles from the office, even if I’m going in everyday, but I still had to fill up every 2-3 months. I’d really like a PHEV that could get a 100 mile electric on a charge and gas of around 150 or more. But only one company made something like that and they quit after 2 years.
The hour charge does break up a long trip, but it takes a lot longer to get there.
https://www.cnn.com/2024/07/01/cars/electric-car-battery-charge/index.html
Sounds great. I hope it's not one of those it's 5 to 10 years away – just like nuclear fusion, which remains 5 to 10 years away forever. But I think my present car will see me out. :)
Hurricanes were invented to serve home improvement stores.
Heard about it on the evening news, about 15 minutes ago.
Mr Obama has no taste, ancien style mustard with seeds is far better 😋
Some people aren't fans of seeds. Or have suffered from diverticulitis and are under medical instruction to keep seeds out of their diets.
Since I was 28 and I'd like to strangle the person who decided hamburger buns need sesame seeds. Even without the diverticulitis, I'm not crazy about eating something that looks the same going out as it did going in.
I found a cure for my diverticulitis. But you may consider rupturing your large intestine and having multiple surgeries a bit extreme as a cure.
OT: Rudy Giuliani officially disbarred in New York for Trump election interference efforts
https://www.cnn.com/2024/07/02/politics/rudy-giuliani-officially-disbarred-in-new-york/index.html
Couldn't have happened to a nicer dumb-ass / stooge / sycophant.
Trump toadies are dropping like flies, but Trump continues unabated. Something is so wrong here.
I'm constantly surprised by the dumbth of people who get a law degree and then pass the bar exam in the US. I thought it was harder than that.
Too many Liberty U graduates and such.
https://imgur.com/gallery/psTHAPr
God's Not Dead- five movies in, and the main character has yet to put in an appearance. What other franchise could get away with that? You wouldn't watch a Batman movie that didn't have Batman in it; why would you watch a God movie without God in it?
For a deity who isn't deceased, his invisibility seems to say otherwise.
His invisibility isn’t the issue.
It’s his nonexistence.
𝑇ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑤ℎ𝑖𝑐ℎ 𝑑𝑜𝑒𝑠 𝑛𝑜𝑡 𝑚𝑎𝑛𝑖𝑓𝑒𝑠𝑡 𝑖𝑠 𝑖𝑛𝑑𝑖𝑠𝑡𝑖𝑛𝑔𝑢𝑖𝑠ℎ𝑎𝑏𝑙𝑒 𝑓𝑟𝑜𝑚 𝑡ℎ𝑖𝑛𝑔𝑠 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑑𝑜𝑛'𝑡 𝑒𝑥𝑖𝑠𝑡.
-- Matt Dillahunty
Can't get a SAG card.
Well, George Burns is dead. So yes, god is dead.
I’m sure there will be a shell company buying out theaters to run up the sales numbers like they did with the one about the guy who supposedly saved kids from human trafficking (but actually interferes in real human trafficking investigations). And I would t be surprised that all the other sequels to this had some sort of shenanigans boosting the revenues as well. Even if it wasn’t that obvious. I know the church crowd bought up theaters to watch as a group, like they buy up books to store in the church basement to artificially inflate the book into NYT bestsellers. They do nothing honestly.
I’ll pass on watching this one too.
"I'll pass on watching this one too."
It's ok. The biblical god will still be non-existent.
To be fair, the one about the mules seems to have hit a pothole. Grateful for small mercies I guess.
D'nesh Defelon lies, and they took him to court over it.
He also forced himself on some of the women he was using as bait in his stings.