Why Christian Movies are BAD | The Problem with Christian Media 

As the screenwriter of a number of PureFlix films, I could hardly agree more with your perspective. I grew up watching indie films of the 80s and 90s, those filmmakers managed to make art with small budgets because they had a passion for the medium. It's not the budgets. It is a disregard for the art of filmmaking. And faith films will not get better until the audience demands something better, but they tend to evaluate films solely on the message itself. As for the counterproductive hatred of atheists and other non-believers, I tried to buck that trend. In Hidden Secrets, the first film produced by PureFlix (but its second release), my co-writer and I sought to create a fuller, more sympathetic portrayal, and, if the following review is any indication, we succeeded: "But don't dismiss Hidden Secrets as The Big Chill rewritten from a Christian perspective. It has the nerve to make one of its most appealing characters, a stem-cell researcher played by John Schneider, an atheist and the least appealing a scripture-spouting hypocrite. While its proscriptive tendencies might not sit well with some moviegoers, it does strive to distinguish between sinner and sin. Even the death merchant and the homosexual - played by Arkansan Corin Nemec - are worthy of love and respect; it's their actions that God despises." Nowadays, however, the audience reward films that fight the Culture War for them. It is easier to generate anger than compassion. I have no interest in that. As for the muddled purpose of Christian films, I think you will appreciate my recent blog: seanpaulmurphyville.blogspot.com/2017/09/building-faith-based-film-ghetto.html

I’m not religious at ALL, but... the Prince of Egypt is a timeless masterpiece that makes me get emotional every time I watch it

Ok, being a Christian and having watched lots of Christian movies, I can say that most of them are bad. But, prince of Egypt..... NOW THAT’S A BANGER

Veggie tales looms in the distance, a singular cucumber and tomato laugh at the rest of the pretenders to the throne

The Prince Of Egypt still impacts me with the interpretations, musical style and not “fluffing it up,” but making it more realistic compared than what most would do.

"All art is propaganda, but not all propaganda is art." -George Orwell

My church took the youth group to see a Christian movie. We were expected to talk about it afterwards. I was the only one who didn't like the movie, and when I brought up my criticisms of it, call me an English student but I went straight for the fact that the movie was inconsistent in how it told its story. Long story short the movie was about a boy who was mad at God because his mom died. Over the course of the movie, he learns through his girlfriend and struggles that he should trust in God's plans even when they cause him grief. At the end of the movie, his brother dies. And he just... gets over it. There's not even a single scene of him grieving his brother, and their relationship was the most important thing in the movie. When I pointed out that the message of trust God was undercut by the fact that the main character, who had spent an ENTIRE MOVIE questioning God about the death of his mother, wasn't even going to have a single moment of being upset about the death of his brother?? It undercut the message, it disregarded characterization, and it honestly was unnecessary. The brother dying accomplished nothing, since it happened at the end of the movie, and thus the only thing it did was give the main character a reason to look like a hypocrite. Ugh. I hated it. I hated how they just tossed the brother away for tragedy and then never resolved it, never let the main character grieve, or even have a scene that established he now understands God's plan sometimes involves hardship. HE JUST GETS OVER IT. I pointed this out and every single other person talked about how beautiful it was. It's not human, it's not beautiful, and it doesn't make a good movie. It doesn't even make a good sermon. It was just dumb. Also the brother was disabled so it was an extra slap in the face to kill him for no reason.

"I have cancer." "This couldn't wait until tomorrow? Grow up, Amy."

As an atheist, it is quite refreshing to see a Christian such as yourself. Keep on beeing you, my dude!

Jesus is the Light, but most Christian movies can't even get the lighting right.

christian movies be like: > character is introduced > have the word "god" or "jesus" 70 times every 5 minutes > problem appears > god/jesus/chritianity is what saves the main character

As a Christian, most of these movies are an INSULT. They almost never portray anybody for or against religion correctly, and they’re just… poorly made. Really hope we can get something better in the future.

As a Christian, you have correctly diagnosed one of the main issues with modern Christian cinema. Notice I said ‘modern’. Ben-Hur and Jesus of Nazareth are both masterpieces in their own right.

Lmao I told my mom my faith is wavering and then the next day she called me an anti-christ while my sister called me a demon. If that isn't traumatic then I don't know what is

Jesus is fine, but his fandom makes some weird fanfiction. I must say.

The only good Christian media: Veggietales The Prince of Egypt

This video honestly made me feel so much better about my opinions on Christian movies. I grew up in a Christian household and I’m still a Christian. When I was in youth class, my youth pastor showed us a ton of Christian movies and I always thought they were very poorly directed and unrealistic. I’m glad though that my parents taught me to respect everyone’s beliefs and to mind my own business. A lot of other parents at our church would judge my parents for telling us that because they thought that if we hung out with kids who grew up with different beliefs, we would become like “Them” sheesh

when the guy from gods not dead said “i hate god”, i immediately got super pissed as an atheist because how many times do we have to tell you we don’t hate god we don’t even think he exists. That shit turns us away more than anything. Understand us if you want to make any ground with us Edit: So many people have agreed with me, and i’m happy for it, but i would like to thank believers who understand and support us the most. You are promoting honest intellectual discourse and i thank you.

The DOOM games are the perfect form of Christian media in my eyes.

What I as an atheist find especially problematic about these films is that they don't even seem to understand what atheism is. They depict the atheists not only as pure evil but also not as real atheists. They depict them as people who ultimately know that there is a god, but are filled with contempt towards them. This is completely wrong and the exact opposite of what we are. Atheism is not a hate towards god, it is a lack of belief and therefore, an indifference to a god. Atheists do not in any way believe in god and to depict us as believers who simply hate him shows that in the christian community, there is a lack of understanding what the difference in our positions and beliefs even is.

This is one of the reasons I love The Chosen so much. Even the Pharisees and the Sanhedrinists and the Romans - antagonists who we’re not supposed to root for - are still depicted as human beings with complex thoughts and emotions. They’re not simply caricatures that we’re supposed to despise; they’re actual people!

As a Christian I've been more impacted by films like Hacksaw Ridge, Silence and Prince of Egypt than any of those other ones. A lot of these movies are just a big circle jerk and portray atheists as evil and greatly exaggerate Christian "prosecution" (if you can even call it that).

It's genuinely pleasant to see a Christian actually noticing that these films are blatant propaganda and the portrayal of atheists is ridiculous. Good video :)

As a Christian, finding good Christian content is hard. All I can recommend is the Chosen, it's really good, but that's for you to decide.

This is actually why, as a vegetarian, I disliked going to vegetarian restaurants for a long time. Many times they were run by people who were passionate about vegetarianism but not food.

Veggietales is the only Christian Media worth anyone's time. EDIT 3/14/21: And Prince of Egypt, too. My Bad.

"There are more good Christian songs than there are good Christian movies." I agree, but only because there are so many more Christian songs out there. Being Christian doesn't mean we have to accept poorly done creative work as masterpieces just because the subject is pro-Christianity.

I am a Christian and this is the exact reason I am studying film. I’ve noticed a disconnect between the message and the quality. I want to portray my perspective of the Bible in an authentic, high quality story that is meant to move you while also being realistic.

As a devout Christian I’ve always stayed away from religious media outside of Sunday school, because most of it isn’t about telling you Jesus, it’s about selling you Jesus, with as little effort and talent as possible. The prince of Egypt is awesome though, and the chosen is pretty great (Doesn’t make you pay or watch ads)

Imagine how cathedrals would have ended up over the centuries if those who built cathedrals to glorify God had zero interest in the actual craft behind their chosen 'artistic medium'. They would have ended up as shoddy wooden shacks or something - which is comparable to what we have with these 'Christian films'. Sad.

As an atheist, I've always thought that Jesus would just be a cool guy to hang out with. A lot of his philosophies are still very insightful, and I feel like more atheists could respect him as a person, even if we don't believe he's a god.

I totally agree. Working in retail, you see A LOT of "so-called" Christians being as rude & inconsiderate as Hell. Here is an example. There was this guy I had a MAJOR crush on for years. He called himself a Christian. When he finally asked me out on New's Years Eve, I thought I had hit the lottery. We met & talked. He expressed that he finally "found his place" in God's ministry. I, however, told him that since I had endured many health problems & broken hearts that I lost faith in GOD, & I'm OK with that. We went to his house & things were going WAY TOO FAST & I felt very uncomfortable. I told him to stop, but I literally had to fight him off. He said "All I need to do is ask for forgiveness. You are already cursed to Hell so why are you resisting?" I stormed out of his house, & never looked back. Also, it amazes me how many "Christian" men think Atheists women are supposed to be "easy." & I'm just not. The hypocrisy is real.

Veggietales and The prince of Egypt took that personally

I'm still mad that people are so uneducated about what Nietzche actually meant by "God is dead". If anything, it was part of a mournful reflection on modern attitudes toward religious faith and the causes behind them.

Best Christian Films -Life of Brian -Silence -The Ten Commandments -Hacksaw Ridge -Passion of the Christ -Prince of Egypt And the list ends

I experienced something similar to this in a few points of my life. I’m a Nondenominational Christian and have been all my life/as long as I can remember. Even though I went to a Baptist school from the time I was 4 til I was 14, I always knew that different religions existed and never saw them as inferior to mine. I was never told to disrespect people of different faiths, and I still don’t to this day. It makes me feel ashamed to see people being persecuted for their faith, whether it be Christians like me or people of other religions. I’ve never tried to dumn down people’s faith with science. Even though there’s things I scientifically believe/know that don’t actually hold up in the Bible (like Earth only being 6,000 years old instead of OVER 4 BILLION years old and dinosaurs walking alongside humans), it doesn’t sway me from my faith and make me believe that it’s all just lies. Since I was 3, I’ve been obsessed with biology and how the natural word works, particularly the prehistoric creatures of Earth (mainly dinosaurs). Even though Earth is well over 4 billion years old and life has existed since 3 billion years ago, it doesn’t make me believe that God didn’t create everything. I know evolution exists, as there’s proof of it, but there’s also proof of Biblical events too and I’ve never been swayed by that. Like I said, I don’t and try not to disrespect people because of their faith. But, I have seen people be disrespected for their beliefs. When I was in 8th Grade, our history teacher was a Christian who used to go to my Church. I was an old friend of her daughter too. Almost every day, we’d start off class by reading a certain chapter or so of a certain Book in the Bible. One of my classmates was an atheist, but I never called him an idiot for not believing. My history teacher didn’t either, she respected his opinion. One part of that came down to her not forcing him to read the verses everyone else read. Then one day, we had a sub. She wasn’t aware that my friend was an atheist, and so asked him to read. When he refused, she got mad at him. Everyone else tried to explain to her what was going on, but she refused to listen and had him sent to the office. I thought to myself, “What just happened?” That same year in 2018, I had been going to Church for years, but then my older cousin invited me to go to Youth Group with him. Youth Group at my Church is a Wednesday night event from 6 : 30 - 8 PM at my Church for all the teenagers to have a night every week to see eachother, hang out, and have more experience to get to know God on a personal level through our Youth Leaders. One of them who I’ve known for years is practically my best friend, and even though I’m technically too old to be a teenager at Youth Group now (I’m almost 19 as of the time that I’m writing this comment), that doesn’t stop me from talking to him or any of my other best friends from Youth Group. When I first started going to Youth Group, I was also told about CIY: A one week trip where Christian teens from across the country would get their Youth Groups together and head to college campuses that were open in summer just for us. The one me and my Youth Group went to is in Salisbury, Maryland, and I was absolutely HYPED to start going. When I went and came back, I knew I’d be going next year. And guess what? I did! CIY was and still is amazing for me, a week to get away from all the pressures of life at home and come together with your friends and hundreds of other people to share the love of God. When COVID hit in 2020, I was devastated that I couldn’t go to CIY that year or the following year. I did, however, have the chance to go in Summer 2022, the last time I could go as a Student (I was 18 1/2). It made me upset to know that, at 18, I could no longer be a Student at CIY or in Youth Group, but it made me happy to know that I could still be with my friends again. This time though, I witnessed something strange. On a few nights this time around, we would have a message at the end of the day talking about people suffering in a certain country around the world from many of the problems in that country, but the religion of those people was always listed as a problem as to why they were suffering. To say that a people’s religion is a reason for their suffering, to compare it to prostitution, drugs, and gang warfare, was not only insulting to me, but to my whole group and probably many others. We had talks afterwards on those same nights concerning the ethics of saying a message like that, and it made me wonder as to why anyone in the 21st Century of Modern World would sound so Christian supremacist in their message. I know that there’s things that I don’t yet understand about my religion, but I know that one of them is not to villainize and demonize other people for faiths. If Christ said to speak with love, to love your enemy, than why should we be taught now to hate them?

As a Christian who believes that A LOT of our media is hot garbage, it’s nice to hear and see fellow believers talk about why that is and how we can and should improve on it. There’s still gonna be hardcore believers who won’t listen to people like you, but those of us who do understand this.

These atheists were depicted so badly that they're not even atheists anymore. That guy said that he hated God, which is not the case-we do not hate God, because we believe that God does not exist.

"I like your Christ, but I do not like your Christains, because those Christians are nothing like Christ." -Mahatma Ghandi

As a Christian I can even say you are 100% correct

Speaking as a Christian writer/artist, it is really sad when you want to use the creativity God gave you and your Church support group continually tries to box you in to a small set of jobs. “You’re making a comic? Wow! You are using those God-given talents! Oh, it’s not like Narnia with clear connections to the Bible? ok that’s cool. But maybe you should use your talent to make children’s story books that can be sold in our Church bookstore!” It’s one of my biggest hang ups when trying to put together my series. I want to make a coherent story that is compelling, but I also want to be that “light” that points to Jesus. And when those thoughts come to mind, I remember J. R. R. Tolkien. He was a wonderful Christian and helped lead the author of the famous Narnia series to Christ. But he also convinced his students of the existence of leprechauns by bringing tiny shoes to his lectures, went to a non-costume party dressed as a polar bear, and chased people down the streets of his college town dressed as a Viking. Christian creativity is not dead, it’s just trapped by the stuck up “holier than thou” people who put a mile-wide line between the Sacred and the Secular.

I see Christian films the same way I see Christian music: A. complete lack of meaningful substance B. doesn't tell you anything you don't already know C. generic and trope-ridden D. flat-out boring Keep in mind that this is coming from a Christian who isn't afraid to admit that Christian media is terrible.

Give these guys the budget of Disney and they’d still make a terrible film

You miss the point, it's Christian propaganda. And, let's be honest, their viewers are not sophicated.

As an atheist, I don't hate God, and I don't believe he's dead. I don't believe in him, it's simple. I frequent church because of my family. We watched God's not dead in church and I got so uncomfortable seeing how they portrayed atheism.

God is not dead was HORRIBLE. I watched it while questioning my faith with my traditional Christian mother, and seeing how she bought the whole “Christians are oppressed” theme simply because it gave her something to give me a speech about faith over, it did NOT help me with my already deteriorating views on Christianity as a black, queer child.

lets just say the execution of these movies is a lot like the execution of jesus, unsuccessful

_"You can speak with spiritual eloquence, pray in public, and maintain a holy appearance. But it is your behavior that will reveal your true character."_ *~ Dr. Steve Maraboli*

There’s only one good christian movie (and it could be called a Jewish movie), The Prince of Egypt

Christian radio is the same. I can always tell a Christian "hip" radio station; the songs are almost catchy but you've never heard them before. Every. Time.

Amy:I have cancer Random Guy: Grow up Amy i'm sorry but i laughed so hard at this, who talks like this??!!?

I've seen some great Christian/faith building movies the last few years (at least for a Christian like myself), but I totally agree. I'm an aspiring filmmaker myself, but not only because I want to convey a message. I love the art, and my background is in the theater. I love the process of creating and exploring, working with the actors, discovering the magic that light can do and so on. I'm not interested in just saying the same things one could more easily say in a sermon or in an anecdote. I desire to go deeper and discover that deep that can touch each person, whether they are Christian and not, and reveal some universal truth, that hopefully can bring them closer to see who Christ really was and is. I just made a short film about my own struggles in building a Christian focused filmbuisness, and sent it to a Christian film festival. My animist friend from Nepal saw it and said afterwards: this is not for Christians only, this is universal. That was a great compliment, even though I know the production quality was not that high. In the end of the day it's not whether the film has the highest quality in light and cinematography. You can forgive a lot of that. It becomes preachy when it's not transperant, not honest, when you feel that the journey is already made. I have a goal and I have a standard, but I wanna learn, explore and discover on the way, and be open for God to take me to new, unknown places. And my respect for the truth and experiences of other people will be one of my guides. That's what challenges us and helps us grow.

As a Christian raised person, I pretend these movies don't exist. Edit: I have stayed out of the flame war I summoned to rise up from the reply section but as of OCT/11/2020 I will step back in to say I am no longer a Christian.

I recently became a film student. I've also been Christian for my whole life. It's one of my goals within my career to use the gifting and passion that he's placed inside of me to go and create art that actually reflects him. And by him, I mean the most creative being in the universe. It frustrates me to see films like this. It's why I adore films like the Prince of Egypt, that have actually harnessed the majesty of God's power and love in an utterly beautiful way. Rather than trying to preach at the audience or defend itself for existing, it simply and unapologetically tells an amazing story, treats its audience like intelligent people, and lets them do with it what they will. I want to make films like that.

I'm christian and I refuse to get a pure flix account.

You can't be mad at a blind guy for walking into you, just like we can't be mad at atheists for walking in the wrong direction

I think the reason why some Christian movies have relatively low budgets is because they know that the returns will be very high. Its all about the money and not the message.

As an Atheist I cringe at the way they portray us as if we’re greedy heartless heathens when actually I just care about people and want to make the world a better place.

Prince of Egypt Joseph: king of dreams Joyfull noise The sister act They don't make movies like these anymore.😢

And it's not just that atheists are portrayed as cold hearted and apethetic, these movies also strawman the atheist position itself. So in the movie the christian always gets the final word and makes the better points and destroys the atheist with reason and logic. The problem is, that's just not what happens in the real world and the only reason they win all the arguments on the screen is because it's impossible to lose an argument when you control both sides of the debate. Christians take lines from these movies and try to use them on actual atheists and are totally taken aback when the atheist doesn't follow the script like the character in the movie did. They end up woefully under prepared for the dialog that ensues.

It's the same reason why woke films are horrible. Nobody wants to see propaganda or get preached to. People want to see a good story with relatable characters. I have the same disdain for both Christian and woke movies for that reason.

I moved to a Christian school for my first year of high school despite me being an atheist and my religion teacher had us watch gods not dead in class and while seeing how they portrayed all atheists as complete dicks I almost thought about stopping class just to stand up and say that this is a terrible representation of who atheists are it was a terrible first impression on me.

When I was teenager, my mother dragged me to a random church to watch gods not dead after I was a clear with her that I wasn’t Christian and in fact an atheist. It was so uncomfortable and the more I watched the more my blood started to boil. By the end I felt so disgusted with her and the church and her church friends. I don’t have anything against Christians or against religious people in general, in fact I think we should all grow up learning about other cultures and religions. But that night I think I would have said I hated them because I was so angry. It was so bizarre because it felt like out of the hundreds of people there I was the only one seeing the bs messages and false information the movie was giving. It was like watching propaganda.

When I was 4 my grandma took me to her church and forced me to watch “God’s not Dead” I got scared I was gonna go to hell and started crying, and instead of taking me home she forced me to sit there and get Jesus “let into my heart” or some bullshit. I’m still scarred a decade later.

"If someone is arrogant of their mistakes, they will not improve." _GOD'S NOT DEAD _*_2_*

One of my favourite movies of all time, and one that has strong Christian themes, is Hacksaw Ridge. This movie was made by the same guys who made the John Wick movies, so it’s in no way “super Christian”. Yet the way they made this film made it far more impactful and faith-filled than any of the movies I’ve ever seen on PureFlix. Reason being is that the movie doesn’t force you to think about your ideologies and views of the world. And while it has scenes in which people are persecuting Desmond Doss for his beliefs, they also aren’t people being solely driven by blind and ignorant hatred and selfishness. The movie instead puts the focus on Doss and his choice to hold on to his faith in God and his personal convictions in order to do what he knows he is called to do. And through everything he had went through, and all the guidance God had given him throughout his entire life, he was able to accomplish the impossible, and through this save many lives literally and metaphorically. The movie had what many Christian movies don’t; it had heart.

I always had a idea for a Christian movie that's about a Christian family that is divided because one side or one family member found their own path as a Buddhist or some other religion. And a character from the Christian side of the family trys to convince the rest of the family that when Jesus said love thy neighbor and thy enemy that they aren't succeeding in what Jesus himself said. Netflix I'm accepting director roles

This video will be BANNED from my christian minecraft server.

I used to, also, wonder if the issue was the inadequate funding, low-budget, for the producuction of these Christian movies! I'm glad you discussed this in ur post! On the other hand, I know that Christians are very generous financially for the evangelism cause, (as well as for the charities!) They do mean well. My other theory was that there is a great pressure on the Directors to produce Evangelical movies that bring nonbelievers to the fold, 'to give nonbelievers a chance to hear the Gospel'! That, perhaps, the subtleness of the message was just not acceptable!? That the message needed to be 'shouted from the rooftops'! To justify the big money put into the production of the Christian movies!? I think too many Christians are so removed from the outside world that they lose touch on how the atheists and non-Christians think.. Especially, the ones that were born into the Christian families! 'Us-and-them mentality!' Yet, Christians, need to realize that they do Not have all the answers! And that being Subtle in the Christian - made movies is much more effective!

I couldn't disagree more Veggie Tales is a cinematic masterpiece.

“Let’s assume God’s not dead is made for athiests” I, a Christian, laughed aloud

obviously you've never seen the Veggie Tales movies, They are Masterpieces!

Wow, this is so true. I watched God's Not Dead when I was nine years old. It made me think atheists were out to make fun of Christians and that I needed to defend myself and that professors were ruthless. It made me think similar to what Josh said, like I needed to defend God in the youtube comments. Argh, and my mom thought the movie was good too. :/

I agree with this, I grew up in a Christian household and there was a period of time where I felt overwhelmed by the prospect of living up to a perfect God. I love films. I love music and Books, I don’t study the Bible or attend church anymore because of difficult experiences. But imo being a good Christian or a good person means loving others and showing compassion not for religious points but because it’s a human nature. God and Jesus loves anyone and isn’t selective.

As an atheist. It always felt like these movies were like "Religious Porn". And not because of the quality of film making, though I think that applies. But it always felt like these films where escapism for the hardcore religious depicting an easy black and white world where the christian is obviously right and those that disagree are cartoonishly evil and blatantly wrong. In the way Pornography can satisfy our most carnal needs... so do franchises like God is not dead. These movies don't show the world as it is, but how a christian wants it to be. It doesn't matter in Porn if the situation that leads to sex is realistic what matters that that viewer is making them self feel good.

These movies remind of of this quote from Gandhi: “I like your Christ, I do not like your Christians. Your Christians are so unlike your Christ.”

I'm a Christian and I love atheist/skeptic RU-vidrs because what value does your faith really have if you never explore or challenge it?

I didn't realize you were Christian until the end of the video, which was a happy surprise for me. It is expected for non-Christians to criticize the abysmal state of Christian films nowadays, but for a Christian to realize how terrible they are gives me hope for Christians as a whole. These movies only polarize and divide Christians and non-Christians to a dangerous degree. I myself am not Christian, but I fully support everything this video has to say. Thank you.

I wanna see more movies with the opposite plots. People finally finding freedom from leaving their faith behind like I and many others did.

I kinda miss the old big-budget biblical epics of the early to middle 1900s. Stuff like The Ten Commandments, Ben-Hur, Jesus of Nazareth and others. many are poor quality, but the pure cheesiness of the spectacle makes everything a blast to watch.

Yeah, there's this ingrained mentality in our culture that teaches you to hate those who are different from you. I live in Mexico, where about 90% of the population is Catholic, and I was also raised Catholic myself. I remember as a child, whenever a RU-vidr that I liked or someone I admired turned out to be an atheist, I would get genuinely sad and disappointed. I didn't hate them, but my opinion of them went down, like, how could they NOT believe in the almighty GOD? It was just insane to me. A few years later, my own sister told us she was an atheist, and it was truly an eye-opening experience. She never tried to convience me of anything, but the fact that my dear sister was now an atheist made me question if the whole atheism thing was as bad as I though, and as a result I opened my mind. I started to actually listen to people who thought differently from me and tried to reason what they said, which later led me to become an atheist. Nowadays, I'm an agnostic, and I recently discovered that my dad had always been one too, it was just that my mother forbade him from even mentioning it to us, but the majority of the peope who surround me are either Christian or Catholic, and I never look down on anyone as long as they treat me with the respect they preach.

My mum (who is a die hard Mormon) recently had a binge-watching spree on christian movies. The amount of low quality production, bad dialogue, cringey writing, stock music, horrible pacing, awful acting, terrible plot, crappy direction, and just an overall ridiculous "message" at the end, made dinner absolute hell for about 2 weeks. It doesn't help that she also sets the TV volume so damn loud that the TV's crappy built in speakers start distorting. I asked her how she can actually watch all that garbage and enjoy it, and her answer was "these are better than all those other movies with swearing in them". Excuse me, what? You watched Baywatch a while back and enjoyed it. Why are you suddenly judging movies based on the amount of swearing they have when Baywatch is full of it?

Thankfully, I learned from an early age that even if someone didn’t share my beliefs (I am a Christian), they weren’t bad people. My best friend growing up was an atheist. I learned that everyone is entitled to their beliefs even if they rivaled mine. I’m so glad I grew up with people who taught me these things so I didn’t turn into one of those people who hate those who don’t agree with them.

Have you seen the film Hacksaw Ridge? I legitimately thought that film had a much more amazing Christian message than 99% of actual Christian films aimed to preaching and spreading the word of God. If Hacksaw Ridge doesn't make you see Christianity in a good light then absolutely nothing will.

I am a Christian, however I too agree with this. Christian entertainment expects the morals and beliefs of Christians, to make it good, which keeps them from trying to give the plot and cinematics quality.

The only Christian movie I adore till this day was "The Prince of Egypt". It's an artistic masterpiece that even non-religious people love.

Growing up as a Christian the thing about movies like this that always made me feel so uncomfortable was the blatant propaganda. It always seemed to me that Christian movies were designed to further indoctrinate its audience. I've been an out of the Christian faith for about 3 years now and watching the clips from this video still make me uncomfortable and further cement to me my decision to leave the church. I'm glad you in your own way pointed this behavior out in your video. You did an excellent job with this video.

As an Agnostic, I've been judged for being skeptical of God more than anything by other Christians who try to convince me that I should believe in God because God loves me. I usually go with, "If God loves his children, why did he drown all but one family with a flood? Why has he killed the very children that he's supposed to love with fire and brimstone?" Usually instead of thoughtful answer, I just get repeated Bible phases or, "It's because God loves you" shtick. Also, "Christian persecution by Atheists" has the be the most ridiculous and hypocritical thing I've ever heard since for one thing, last I recall Christianity is still the most popular religion in the United States and Evangelicals are arguably the worst branch of Christianity because of how preachy they can be and try to shove it down your throat. At least in my experience. It's also the exact reason why I don't typically watch Christian movies because I know that people like myself and others aren't going to feel welcomed when they keep demonizing everyone who isn't a Christian all the time.

What's ironic about their depictions of "atheists" is that they're actually misotheists. Misotheists are people that believe in a god or gods but feel anger and hatred towards said entity. In this anger, they deny the existence their god or, alternatively, stop their worship as a form of punishment to god.

Veggietales has the best Christan movies and you can't change my mind

I love how this video felt like an hour long, yet was only 15 minutes long. Amazing!

As a Christian I completely HATE modern Christian media, including music. I love my good old fashioned church hymns that actually have lyrical value.

God's not dead 3? Damn how many times we finna try and kill this God guy.

As a Christian, I fully agree. Give me more Prince of Egypt-type films!!

As an atheist I think this video is a fair assessment on the quality of the majority of Christian films. I'm also glad you didn't betray your religion, even though I don't share in it. Thank you for making the internet a better place.

As a Catholic my self I can agree that these movies can be pretty bad..... I bet Jesus himself would not like these lol

The quote from Bambi I never interpreted it as “don’t use constructive criticism.” I think it simply means, “don’t say mean things just because you can”. Sure, constructive criticism is necessary, but i don’t think that’s what the quote is referring to. It’s just don’t be needlessly mean.

The only good Christian movies to me are Prince of Egypt and Joseph, King of Dreams. Thats it.

12:47 Dang, that hit hard. I imagine one of the people arguing the concert not even being full aware of what they are cheering or booing for. “ what’s he saying? I can’t hear him. Oh well. BOOOO!”

I totally agree! As a Christian myself, I find almost all Christian movies awful. I remember telling this to some friends at church many years ago, and they were like puzzled and surprised by what I said. I wish I watched this video before, though, to share it with them and make a point xD