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[–] FlyingSquid 53 points 1 week ago (2 children)

The people who made God's Not Dead made another movie full of lies? What?

[–] CM400 24 points 1 week ago

I’m shocked! Shocked I say!

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

Religious grifting: the world's newest profession

Edit: forgot the /s

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 week ago

The start of the Bible explains that God said the priestly family should get the best of all the meat and other offerings plus endless other benefits, powers and exceptions. It's an age old game

[–] FlyingSquid 9 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I wouldn't say it's anywhere near new.

Pharaohs got their subjects to build giant pyramids for them.

[–] cmbabul 2 points 1 week ago

The medium is newish in comparison to the con

[–] [email protected] 36 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Given that the Supreme Court made up facts about this (the ruling said it was just a moment of quiet reflection when in reality it was on the fifty yard line, with literal tv cameras, and pressure for the kids to participate or they might not play. I don’t think it is surprising that movie writers would.

[–] FlyingSquid 18 points 1 week ago

I believe it was the lawyers who made up the facts and the SCOTUS justices who accepted them without skepticism. Not that it makes it any better.

[–] tatta_tatta 31 points 1 week ago

“Religion, the ideology that ignores facts”

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 week ago

Facts aren't a concern of the intended audience.

[–] ulkesh 12 points 1 week ago

So…fiction, like everything else to do with religion.

[–] njm1314 11 points 1 week ago

So did the Supreme Court actually

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 week ago

The MOVIE!?!!

Goddammit

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago

Average Joe is not on Wikipedia or IMDB, so it's either waaaay early, or the film community isn't taking it seriously. I can't find a production company (Typically Pure Flix for Evangelical Christian propaganda flims like the GND series). There's a book on Amazon, and I assume it's related.

It might be worth seeing the case that SCOTUS decided this based on false facts, and the lack of due diligence during discovery is conspicuous. But by now we know the Federalist Society is about securing autocracy with theocratic and corporatist features here in the US.

[–] FordBeeblebrox 2 points 1 week ago

Let me guess, Tebow’s dumb ass is involved somehow