Tom

living out life
2007-10-20 23:09:43 (UTC)

Speaking Of Movies...

Speaking of movies... check out this letter from Jonathan
Falwell concerning the new Ten Commandments movie
advertisement. It just goes to show how ridiculous our
society is becoming concerning "political correctness":

From: Jonathan Falwell
Date: October 19, 2007

God Banned from ‘The Ten Commandments’ Movie Ads

Moses was chosen by God to lead the children of Israel.
But apparently that’s either a big secret or an offensive
assumption. Earlier this week, I learned that the
promotional material for the new film “The Ten
Commandments” had been edited so that the term “chosen by
God” did not appear in trailers and advertising for the
movie. “The Ten Commandments,” a 3D CGI animated film, is
being released nationwide October 19.

Radio Disney determined that the ads for the Promenade
Pictures film should not bear the words “chosen by God.”
An October 2 e-mail sent from Jason Atkinson of Radio
Disney to media buyers hired by Promenade to promote the
film contained instructions to “omit” the line “Chosen by
God” and instead insert a mention of the studio.

Yes, we sure wouldn’t want to offend anyone by implying
that Moses was chosen by God — the entire basis of the
biblical narrative of Moses being God’s instrument of
delivery for Israel.

This is reminiscent of last year’s excellent Christian
film “Facing the Giants,” which was slapped with a PG-
rating by the Motion Picture Association of America solely
because it contained thematic elements that were found to
be too evangelistic.

I believe both of these examples are pictures of the
diversity obsession in our culture. We have become so
fixated on being non-offensive to people, specifically in
terms of God and faith (usually the Christian faith, I
might add), that we are seeing God purged from the public
square and censored from the most basic forms of speech.

The fact is that Moses was literally chosen by God
and “The Ten Commandments” movie clearly portrays this
with the story of the Burning Bush, wherein God addressed
Moses. “I am the God of your father, the God of Abraham,
the God of Isaac and the God of Jacob,” God said from
within the bush (Exodus 3:6) as Moses stood on the holy
ground where God chose to address him.

It’s such a beautiful and inspiring story and a picture of
God being active in the lives of His children and having
specific plans for us. Yet, this “Christophobia” (a term
crafted by Jewish legal scholar J.H.H. Weiler) is
infecting our culture to such a point that the mainstream
apparently believes God to be a dirty word. It’s a modern
American tragedy, as I see it.




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