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...goodness had nothing to do with it.” If Caldwell feels that Christianity is dismissed at Harvard, she might take note of who have become its most visible advocates: Fred Phelps, James Dobson, Pat Robertson, Jerry Falwell, and Ralph Reed. None are known for promoting Christ??s messages of love, tolerance, and generosity. Care for the poor, the sick, the sinner, and the prisoner is absent from today’s Christianity. The Catholic Church in which I was baptized has spent the past decade equivocating on accepting financial or ethical responsibility for becoming a haven...
...shrugging, saying, “It’s just free speech.”Of course, blasphemy does not exist in a bubble in which only Muslims are subjected to offense. The West dishes it out more frequently to its own Christian heritage. Remember “Piss Christ??—the art project where a crucifix was submerged in a jar of urine—or the picture of the Virgin Mary smeared with elephant dung? Americans wrote letters to their congressmen expressing outrage that these artists got National Endowment for the Arts grants...
...playing an increasingly vocal role. “The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe,” released today (see B1), is an extended Christian allegory that is being specifically marketed to Christian audiences. Last year, “The Passion of the Christ?? made $370 million domestically, mainly on the strength of its appeal to Christian audiences.In the wake of these mega-successes, Christian audiences have attained a special new prominence in American mass media that they haven’t had before, and aren’t likely to recede into...
...Wardrobe” the next mega-event in worldly cinematic fantasy, they have begun mobilizing the legions who swear by the Narnia books’ allegorical Christian themes.Last year, Motive Marketing worked through churches to make Mel Gibson’s “The Passion of the Christ?? a smash hit. In an effort to reach out to Narnia’s most devout fans, Disney and Walden hired Motive to employ some of the same faith-based promotion methods for “Wardrobe.” (If you liked seeing your savior being sadistically tortured...
...honest young heroine, Lucy (Georgie Henley). Lucy’s moral fiber and goodness reflects the one element of Narnia that Adamson is able to translate to film: Lewis’s grounding in Christian theology, the philosophy of agape (ultimate sacrifice and love), and the mythos of Christ??s resurrection. The film teeters on the fine line between feel-good family fare and a heavy-handed appeal to religious America. And unlike the text, in which Lewis deftly blends morality with witty narrative and dynamic character descriptions, the film is virtually humorless and Swinton?...