I suppose that is what sells these days.
The Lord hides his gifts in plain sight
The Christian faith has been mocked all over the world...words and things done in the name of Christianity throughout history up until today will make you puke! This is just a TV show, but I have to admit, there is a air of reality that further diminishes the Christian religion.
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And why would that be a bad thing exactly?
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When it comes to faith healing as soon as a Christian preacher can
show an amputee healed I'll believe that it shouldn't be mocked.
Very true lennys_here.... that is why my show "Day Zero" is not part of Hollywood and we make no money and it cost me some of my savings but it's basically no-budget. However, it is a truly uplifting point of view of my faith. Hollywood and their stupid shows and movies are misuing names and phrases like "Hand of God" to pretend it has a religious tone when it is simply mockery and full of sex, drugs, etc. (albeit they are technically mocking Protestantism, if anything). In any case, check out the latest episode I just released, let me know your thoughts (it has action but pretty tame, so only TV-14). Thanks! :)
https://www.amazon.com/gp/video/detail/B01LW9DIJ5
A. I think the word you're looking for is "mockery".
B. No, Benny Hinn, Jack Van Impe, dominionism and Prosperity Gospel are complete mockeries of the Christian faith. This was a plot element.
C. Remind me later to shed a solitary tear for the faith that continues to utterly dominate political, economic and social discourse in the most powerful nation in the world.
D. Blow. Me.
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Christian faith is a mockery of itself.
Been twisted into the BS that it is today.
In the end, it comes down to money. Just like everything else.
Faith, religion, whatever you wish to call it.. It is the root of all evil.
Just another BS reason to place people into groups and separate us vs them.
Over 70% of Americans are christians. This series accurately portrays the fact that christian Americans have no clue what Christ actually taught, which is why the real life TV evangelists and Reverend Pauls can so easily hoodwink their followers into believing in having faith in emotion and show instead of the red words of their bible.
Predictably, even the writers throw their audience a bone in the final episode, ending with the ridiculous implication that, despite all the devilment judge maximum and his psychopath Benaiah committed, God still spoke, and gave visions, miraculously to Judge Parnell.
You can be a christian, or you can follow the teachings of Christ. But it is impossible to do both. Christianity is the 'strong delusion' foretold in 2 Thessalonians 2:11-12.
I don't think it is.
Ron Pearlman's character said at least twice that he doesn't know anything about Christianity and the priest/pastor/reverend person is a confessed con-artist who admits to the scam he's running.
All of the scenes involving Ron Perlman's character are from his POV, but it's still heavily implied that he's just having a psychotic break. It's very common in my experience for certain types of psychotic diseases to manifest in religious delusions. People talking to God and believing that all their actions are directed by God. Personal example - My mother was on the verge of burning bibles because "God" was telling her the "true bible", he'd give her tasks that had to be done on certain times on certain places, giving her lottery numbers and when they weren't correct it was a test to see if she was obedient and trusting enough to do it again; God would tell her the "truth" about everyone trying to kill us so we'd be on our guard. (I spent a lot of my early childhood subsequently sleeping with one eye open cause my dad or grandmothers were going to kill me or poison my food). A
The pastor is a little bit much, but in TV land, they always have to add something more Hollywoody. However, people like this are out there, preying on the mentally sick. My mother was supported by multiple pastors, though. Given page-long prayers we had to memorise and we had to say at 4 am, 12 am and before bed, while she had to say it constantly. I can't begin to relay the amount of donations she gave. Not $45,000, but it was a lot. This is an actual thing that happens.
The only thing that snapped her out of it was a 9 day fast that landed her in a hospital on tranquilizers.
Now I'm not ragging on Christianity. I went to a catholic school from kindergarten to 18, but with the good of it, there's also the bad of it. And people who exploit and manipulate others for money.
Give it a chance maybe. I'm fairly certain that somewhere along the series they'll show exactly how he was aware of who the rapist was, and how it got so distorted in his mind. I've personally never seen someone become this overtly psychotic after a suicide of a family member so I'm thinking that it was an increased amount of stress brought on by some complicity or involvement that actually snapped his leash on reality.
Most psychiatrists are atheists, but science and christian faith don't have to be mutually exclusive. I don't think this show is about a ma who is actually the Hand of God, but rather a mentally ill, morally unsound man surrounded by self-services trying and failing to function because of his delusional belief that he is the Hand of God. Are there promos or interviews out there saying that yes, beyond doubt, this show is about actual God speaking to this man.
Clever people will recognize and tolerate nothing but cleverness.
Tenlegdragon, this is a fantastic, well-thought post on the topic. Any time Christianity (or any religion) is mentioned in a TV show or movie, there is the inevitable post like the OP. This the best response I've ever seen to one of them.
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