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So as not to hijack seacats 'nudity' thread, this one is devoted to what conservative Christians find objectionable in movies. in Seacats' thread i posted a list of films condemned by the Legion of Decency (Catholic).
Here is a main site of protestant, evangelical Xtian movie reviews. As examples, I picked The Passion of the Christ and Miss Congeniality. In sum, though the reviewer cautions about exposing kid to the violence of POC, he had many concerns about the subtle corruptions of MC, so that the latter ends with a much lower rating.
i invite others to peruse the reviews and review them!
the overall score is an average for the six areas: violence, impudence, sexual immorality [anything outside of monogamy], drugs, offense to God, murder/suicide. it can be seen that, while violence is looked at, it's outweighed by the sexual and 'moral' categories.
major site for Xtian reviews
www.capalert.com {childcare action project, which has been running for several years}
list of over 1100 movies reviewed.
http://www.capalert.com/capreports/index.htm
review of ‘Passion of Xt’ {overall score, 69 of 100, 100 being the best}
http://www.capalert.com/capreports/passionofthechrist.htm
Under the CAP Analysis Model the content of The Passion of the Christ earned scores equivalent to scores earned by G rated movies in Sexual Immorality and Drugs/Alcohol in the comparative baseline database of movies, to the scores earned by PG movies in Offense to God (witchcraft, Satanism, occult, etc) and Murder/Suicide and to the scores earned by PG-13 movies in Impudence/Hate. But in Wanton Violence/Crime, this movie could not have been more "R." The Passion of the Christ earned a lower Wanton Violence/Crime score than American History X. If I removed the investigation area scoring display limiters that display as zero any less-than-zero scores, the score in Wanton Violence/Crime would be -442. This reveals another great feature of the CAP analysis model. It identifies the areas of concentration of invasive programming and is clearly displayed in the CAP thermometers. The heaviest concentration of invasive programming in The Passion of the Christ is obviously in Wanton Violence/Crime.
Though this movie is a faithful depiction of the unimaginable terrors our Lord suffered for our sakes, it is a movie. It is entertainment. Violent entertainment. Thus the reason for the zero score in the Wanton Violence/Crime investigation area. It was not Jesus in the film. It was Jim Caviezel in the full-body moulage,. That it is truthful to the actual events does not excuse exposing your kids to it unless you, mom/dad, say so. There is where the brutal objectivity of the CAP analysis model (the Findings/Scoring section) becomes most valuable. If a scene is violent, the CAP model notes it as such whether "justified" by actual events or not. (See the "BEFORE You Read On..." link above.)
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harsh review of ‘miss congeniality’ {overall score 41 of 100}
http://www.capalert.com/capreports/misscongeniality.htm
There are very few bold issues of immorality and other matters which are likely unacceptable to the righteous parent and grandparent, but like an ethical desensitizing trap there is enough "micro" ignominies to seem harmless individually but enough in quantity to make the total magnitude of influence equivalent to an R-rated movie circa 1995. God told us about Satan going out to the four corners of the world to deceive us so we would fight amongst ourselves [Rev. 20:8]. Maybe this slow and progressive decay of morality through entertainment and R-13) is indeed part of Satan's campaign?
Here is a main site of protestant, evangelical Xtian movie reviews. As examples, I picked The Passion of the Christ and Miss Congeniality. In sum, though the reviewer cautions about exposing kid to the violence of POC, he had many concerns about the subtle corruptions of MC, so that the latter ends with a much lower rating.
i invite others to peruse the reviews and review them!
the overall score is an average for the six areas: violence, impudence, sexual immorality [anything outside of monogamy], drugs, offense to God, murder/suicide. it can be seen that, while violence is looked at, it's outweighed by the sexual and 'moral' categories.
major site for Xtian reviews
www.capalert.com {childcare action project, which has been running for several years}
list of over 1100 movies reviewed.
http://www.capalert.com/capreports/index.htm
review of ‘Passion of Xt’ {overall score, 69 of 100, 100 being the best}
http://www.capalert.com/capreports/passionofthechrist.htm
Under the CAP Analysis Model the content of The Passion of the Christ earned scores equivalent to scores earned by G rated movies in Sexual Immorality and Drugs/Alcohol in the comparative baseline database of movies, to the scores earned by PG movies in Offense to God (witchcraft, Satanism, occult, etc) and Murder/Suicide and to the scores earned by PG-13 movies in Impudence/Hate. But in Wanton Violence/Crime, this movie could not have been more "R." The Passion of the Christ earned a lower Wanton Violence/Crime score than American History X. If I removed the investigation area scoring display limiters that display as zero any less-than-zero scores, the score in Wanton Violence/Crime would be -442. This reveals another great feature of the CAP analysis model. It identifies the areas of concentration of invasive programming and is clearly displayed in the CAP thermometers. The heaviest concentration of invasive programming in The Passion of the Christ is obviously in Wanton Violence/Crime.
Though this movie is a faithful depiction of the unimaginable terrors our Lord suffered for our sakes, it is a movie. It is entertainment. Violent entertainment. Thus the reason for the zero score in the Wanton Violence/Crime investigation area. It was not Jesus in the film. It was Jim Caviezel in the full-body moulage,. That it is truthful to the actual events does not excuse exposing your kids to it unless you, mom/dad, say so. There is where the brutal objectivity of the CAP analysis model (the Findings/Scoring section) becomes most valuable. If a scene is violent, the CAP model notes it as such whether "justified" by actual events or not. (See the "BEFORE You Read On..." link above.)
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harsh review of ‘miss congeniality’ {overall score 41 of 100}
http://www.capalert.com/capreports/misscongeniality.htm
There are very few bold issues of immorality and other matters which are likely unacceptable to the righteous parent and grandparent, but like an ethical desensitizing trap there is enough "micro" ignominies to seem harmless individually but enough in quantity to make the total magnitude of influence equivalent to an R-rated movie circa 1995. God told us about Satan going out to the four corners of the world to deceive us so we would fight amongst ourselves [Rev. 20:8]. Maybe this slow and progressive decay of morality through entertainment and R-13) is indeed part of Satan's campaign?
