A Matter of Faith: Pre-Show.
Today we’re going to look at A Matter of Faith, the 2014 Creationism snoozefest by the Christiano brothers that they somehow got Harry Anderson signed up for.
Today we’re going to look at A Matter of Faith, the 2014 Creationism snoozefest by the Christiano brothers that they somehow got Harry Anderson signed up for.
If my blog were a sort of News of the Weird of Christianity–and I suppose in some respects it is–then this scenario would definitely qualify as no longer weird enough to make the cut. But I noticed something interesting: that I could tell something important about a church just by seeing how its members and leaders react to a scandal.
There are a whole bunch of Christians who don’t like to evangelize. This reticence drives their leaders and authority figures out of their ever-lovin’ trees and leads to quite a lot of the finger-shaking sermons directed at the flocks–and yet nothing is changing except for the worse (in those leaders’ eyes at least)! I’ll show you why today.
A new first has happened in America: an openly atheistic woman has been elected to state office. And it’s happened in the very deeply religious state of Arizona, of all places. Today Lord Snow Presides over another sign of Christianity’s coming decline.
For many years, Christians have been trying to convince everyone that human beings have a “god-shaped hole” in their beings that cries out for belief in their particular god to fill it. Today I’ll show you what that saying means, why it’s wrong, and how its latest permutation is working out for one batch of Christians struggling to maintain belief long past the point where it makes no sense at all to keep doing it.
Here, then, is the brutal truth about both evangelicalism and Bad Christians.
But I wasn’t surprised to learn recently that there are some Christians out there who are unhappy about this movie. I noticed some trends as I perused the reviews–and here they are. (SPOILER FREE.)
In the immortal words of Cobra Bubbles, things have indeed gone very wrong for them.
I thought it was hilarious that this news comes out now, amid a Gallup poll showing that belief in Creationism is at its lowest point since Gallup began asking that question of Americans. But that’s not the only bad news for Christians. Come see the newest developments!