I could be completely wrong about this, but I think nodeerforamonth was being facetious, just giving the OP the response he wanted to hear.

Throwing a little gas on this bonfire...

I'd bet 1/4 of Hollywood is gay, and the other 3/4 is their friends/sympatico liberals. Hollywood has a huge gay community, more behind the scenes than in front. Who is the major persecutor of the gay community? Who constantly attacks them? Preachers. What is the justification to deny them basic rights heterosexuals enjoy? Biblical dogma. The fact is, gay discrimination is entirely religion-driven in this country.

So the gay community and their friends simply return the hate. They hate Christians because they feel, rightfully so, that Christians hate them. Not all, of course. Rick Warren has said enough with the discrimination, there needs to be outreach, but he's been attacked on both sides for it. Gays don't trust him, other Christians oppose him for doing it.

It's a shame and stupid but that's simply my POV on it.

Yes, because all Christians are ignorant, NASCAR-lovin', "American" speaking rednecks? I expected more of you wendersfan.

? The movie mentioned has nothing to do with Hollywood's Hate of Christianity and is not an example of Christinaity in the Hollywood system. Wendersfan is correct, it doesn't belong in this thread.

Searchlight will end up being the ultimate distributor; similar to Miss March and Post Grad (both projects originally set-up to be Atomic releases).

It looks that now Fox Faith is just a branding label for DVDs.

But there are black, Mexican and Puerto Rican christians.
What do you call them?

I'm from Chicago so it wasn't here.
I was watching THE FACTOR that year and they were showing print reviews and they pointed out that these same movie reviewers did not ever give the same kind of review about violent scenes in Quintin Tarintino movies.
Those kind of violent scenes were discribed as art.

The reason critics were telling people not to take their kids to Passion while not mentioning kids at all for Saw/Tarantino/etc. is because many Churches around the country made field trips for the entire congregation to see it, and many parents wanted to take their kids to show them about their faith. So clearly people were interested in taking their kids, thus it became prudent to warn them that the movie would be too intense for children.

With Saw and Tarantino and so on, there is no mass movement to take kids to see it. It's expected that these films are too violent for kids, so it would be redundant to mention not to take your kids.

And, FWIW, I think Passion is as much art as Kill Bill or Pulp Fiction.

Able to understand sarcasm?

The difference is The Bible has sort of a wholesome image. A lot of people might think "A movie about Jesus, this would be good for little Jimmy to see."

Chances are most people weren't thinking "Kill Bill, the new movie from the guy whose films include anal rape and ears getting cut off, I'll take little Jimmy to that."

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/30146878

Little more controversy?

Discussion of that article is probably better suited to the Politics forum, I would say.

We must have not seen the same movie. The Religulous that I saw was Maher's usual agenda to make Christians look ridiculous in full bloom. He goes out and finds radicals such as guys who worship inside a truck trailer, and one dude claiming to be Jesus. He also poked fun at the Holy Land tour while admitting that the Jesus actually had a good argument for the Trinity. The problem is this "documentary" is too biased and not objective.

Probably explains why Milk and Brokeback Mountain won high Oscar praise.

I'd say Jesus Camp is probably the scariest movie I've seen in a while. Thing is, there's really no editorializing IMO - they just show these people doing what they consider right. Yikes.

Thing is, in the Bible Belt, you will find most evangelicals have no problem at all with Jesus Camp. This evangelical world has been completely shut out from film and media so people tend to fear that which they do not understand.

I find nothing scary about a young boy who is enpowered by God to preach a sermon to a group of people. The whole "raising up an army" was totally taken out of context.

Can I get a list of movies where you folks claim all this hatred of Christianity is coming from? Everyone is just assuming that these movies exist, but I have yet to see anyone actually list them. Doubt was mentioned in the OP, but he hasn't seen the film, he's just assuming it attacks Christianity, and he is wrong. There Will Be Blood was mentioned, but that movie seemed to be more about the conflict between Plainview and Eli, not necessarily about religion itself. Where are all these Christian-hating movies that everyone claims exist?

I know all too well about religion. That's why Jesus Camp is as scary to me as it is.

I find it scary because the boy was too young to know one thing from another; he was raised by Christian parents who chose his path for him, and are forcing their religious beliefs on him. I don't think he is old enough to really understand what he is saying; in that clip, he sounded like he was simply repeating things he had heard previously, like a child actor might.

I meant more him and those who claim the same as him, not necessarily in this thread. He came in and stated it like it was fact, but I have yet to really see any list that supports his original claim that Hollywood hate Christianity, aside from the fact that Hollywood doesn't really make mainstream Christian-glorifying movies.

please elaborate

And is there any doubt Penn got his Oscar as a protest vote over Prop 8? Mickey Rourke was royally screwed for a righteous win because of politics.

LOL, no. Mickey Rourke played himself. Sean Penn became Harvey Milk. Rourke is a good actor, but in this particular situation the two performances aren't even in the same league.

You do realize that many reviewers, award ceremonies, and individuals think that Rourke was better. Saying they are "not in the same league" is a big overstatement.

There is no doubt.
Nonsense.