#Christploitation

[wutbju]

Also last semester, BJU's new shiny spokesman Renton Rathbun chose the clickbaitiest headline. It's peak BOJOsploitation.

He called it "Hate More. Kill Better."

Yeah, yeah, yeah. We know he's talking about the mortification of sin. But it takes a long time for him to get to that point. And he flippantly states that "the Church is losing the skill of hating and killing."

This is the guy who started his sermon about gender binaries talking about sexual assault. And this is the guy who talked the students' neighbors as Sonderkommandos. And this is the guy who said that he's "punching them in the face." And the guy who said that men "pressure women into degrading themselves."

And he's saying it in the same pulpit that Dan Olinger "joked" about "killing" a student.

BJU loves to glorify violence. They love to exploit people from the pulpit. They love BOJOsploitation.

And fundy pastors love it too.

They are all as bad as the Reefer Madness producers.

Mark and avoid.

Here's Rathbun's whole thing. Note that he's equating pastors with holiness, and if you disagree with that, you need to learn more about "killing."

We live in a world where 62% of American pastors have a syncretistic worldview. It was pastors who enabled the success of the Revoice movement, which is responsible for grooming young men and women into embracing a gay identity within Christianity. And currently, there is a dwindling confidence in pastors’ spiritual credibility.

Now more than ever, the American church is in desperate need of pastors who are ready to address a simple fact: the Church has come to despise holiness. Yes, the Church at large seems fond of God’s love and goodness, but holiness leaves a bitter taste in her mouth.

Many fear pursuing holiness will make us unrelatable, robotic, and judgy. Yet, the most sobering statement of 1 John 2:1–6 is that the first and primary exhortation is to stop sinning. Yes, if we do sin, we have an Advocate. But John wrote his epistle principally so that his people “may not sin.”

When we do speak of practical matters of holiness, we often explain our way into retaining at least some sin. When 1 Timothy 2:12 forbids women “to exercise authority over a man” in the church, we roll out our feminists to help us see that “authority” is misunderstood by conservatives. When Romans 1:26–27 speaks of the sin of homosexuality and its “vile affections,” we roll out our same-sex-attracted pastors to help us see that only the act of sodomy is a sin, not the attraction part.

The Church is losing the skill of hating and killing. We do not hate sin as God does, so we do not kill it. We might condemn parts of it—but hating and killing it goes too far. Yet, God says He hates the work of those who sin (Ps. 101:3; 119:104). He hates abominations (Prov. 6:16–19; Jer. 44:4). He hates the planning of evil (Zach. 8:17). And God has instructed us to hate evil (Ps. 97:10), even abhor it (Rom. 12:9).

Our worldview is confused, so our compassion has become confused. In attempting to show compassion for those who are tangled up in sin, we have begun showing compassion for sin itself. As my pastor once stated, “When we forget the sinfulness of sin and God’s own hatred for it, we forget the cost of sin for the Son of God.”

How can we kill what we have become accustomed to? How can we assassinate that which we have been pining after? We need a biblical worldview of holiness. The puritan John Owen confronts us, “Do you mortify; do you make it your daily work; be always at it while you live; cease not a day from this work; be killing sin or it will be killing you!”

Pastors, do not give up. Do not give in. Do not go gently into the night. Fight for holiness in your own heart (1 Pet. 3:15) and in the hearts of your congregations (1 Pet. 1:15–16). Fight because you love God. Fight because you love your people. Turn your people into killers of sin, or it will be killing them.

Look around, Renton. There's a lot of hating. There's a lot of killing. And exploitative to say so cavalierly, "The Church is losing the skill of hating and killing."

[marklikely]

its interesting that atheists in christploitation movies and santa deniers in chrismas movies are portrayed the exact same, in that they dont just *not believe* that god/santa is real (which is what. actual people in real life do) but instead they are mad at him for some past slight against them, which still means on some level they do think hes real...

[le-fils-de-lhomme]

The "Ooh this will replace Hollywood." reminds me a little bit of the ressentiment that has created the Christploitation movie genre that all have the undercurrent of "The libs run Hollywood and they ran out good Christians." when Hollywood has plenty of stories of very devout creatives who made biblical epics and films with religious themes. Andrei Tarkovsky was not a creature of Hollywood but he was very religious. Both these types forget that the people who made these things were good at their jobs and cared about the medium they were working in.

[gbmarian]

An LV-426 Hallowtide Hootenanny! (Part 2)

AN LV-426 HALLOWTIDE HOOTENANNY! (PART 2) The continuing discussion on horror movies and spirituality with two of my brethren in the LV-426 Tradition! Some of the points discussed in this segment: • Demonic possession movies, and how "possession" is viewed in different religions • Slasher movies, and why they aren't really as anti-sex or anti-drugs as everyone thinks • Personal horror boundaries, and why we don't enjoy "mean-spirited" horror http://desertofset.com/2020/10/26/an-lv-426-hallowtide-hootenanny-part-2/ https://youtu.be/-gly6RpmLOk https://anchor.fm/desertofset/episodes/Episode-53-An-LV-426-Hallowtide-Hootenanny--Part-2-elapkr

[vhslegacy]

Finally got a nice copy of DEVIL WORSHIP (1989). Been looking for this for a little while; I love finding 80s Christploitation films such as this one and The Pagan Invasion series🤘📼 #devilworship #satanism #80s #vhs #christploitation #christian #vhscollector https://www.instagram.com/p/B6FMqJzlsUa/?igshid=1dsr7mfkw2qds

[propalahramota]

Avengers: Endgame is going to be the best Rapture movie ever

[gncrevan]

sorry for the video quality but this film is giving me an aneurysm

[rtgomerprod]

Second Glance Animated Review

Second Glance Animated Review

Because self-torture makes you smart, I take a look at the 1992 Christploitation film, Second Glance!

Title Card:

Becky Hopkins: http://becky-hopkins.com & http://www.patreon.com/beckyhop

Music:

Main Review: Logical Sequence of Events – TeknoAXE Credits: Bastardized Sinewaves (Remasterd) – TeknoAXE Both songs can be found at: https:…

[cesarsantosjr]

@Regranned from @thisdayinmetal - Feb 5th 2010 #FearFactory released the album “Mechanize” #Powershifter #FearCampaign #"FinalExit #Christploitation #IndustrialMetal Did you know.... It was the only album to feature Gene Hoglan on drums. - #regrann (en Chiriquí, Chiriqui, Panama)

[renegadecut]

On Twitter today, you called movies like God's Not Dead "Christploitation" as someone who grew up in a right-wing church/school, that is very apt. I can only speak from my exp, but here we go: I taught about Christianity from birth through media with philosophies like God's Not Dead most of my life. It was really that movie that opened my eyes in how exploitative they are. I'm hoping more Christians realize how exploited they are by the same message over and over.

This is my anecdotal experience here, but nearly every Christian who has responded to my videos on God’s Not Dead, Kirk Cameron’s Saving Christmas and Let There Be Light felt the same way. I haven’t found too many Christians who will go to bat for these movies, which gives me hope that the vast majority of Christians see these exploitative films for what they are.

[randgugotur-6]

Feb 5th 2010 #FearFactory released the album “Mechanize” #Powershifter #FearCampaign #"FinalExit #Christploitation #IndustrialMetal

Did you know....

It was the only album to feature Gene Hoglan on drums. https://t.co/9T9jjlq4pm

[wutbju]

When I started thinking about this BOJsploitation genre, the first sermon that popped into my mind was John R. Rice's 1935 pamphlet, What's Wrong with the Dance?

Have you read it? Would you like to? It's 48 pages long, and if your church had a Sword of the Lord tract rack in the lobby, you might have seen it.

Here's how he introduces it:

CHILD OF THE BROTHEL, SISTER OF DRUNKENNESS, LEWDNESS, DIVORCE AND MURDER, THE MOTHER OF LUST--A ROAD TO HELL!

Huh?

[reallybradjones]

I just want you to know I've gone through dark periods and your brand of humor has gotten me through them. My friend actually thanked me for introducing your videos to him because they've kept him from killing himself. Hell, I've actually used some of what I've learned from you about exploitation films in my grad school classes (once, I used the term "Christsploitation" in class to discuss Chaucer and I gave you credit). Thank you for your craft. Each video gets better than the last.

Wow, thank you so much!  I’m glad my videos helped . Christploitation works in mysterious ways :)

[hiiggsmonaghan]

Tagged by @pokespegiovanni List 10 songs you’re currently obsessed with and tag 10 people.

1. Breaking Point - One of a Kind

2. Muse - House of the Rising Sun

3. Muse - Hysteria

4. The Devil’s Carnival - Grace for Sale

5. Serj Tankian - Lie Lie Lie

6. Three Days Grace - A World So Cold

7. Nine Inch Nails - Only

8. KoRn - Hushabye

9. Fear Factory - Christploitation

10.  Motionless In White - Death March

I will only tag @viridianleaves. 

[moomingitz]

I would ask why the hell a third, “God’s Not Dead”, Christian victim complex movie was made, but we currently seem to be in something of a golden age of “Christploitation” films. If golden age is even a fitting term, here.

[gbmarian]

Episodes of "In the Desert of Set" about monster movies, and how they can teach us so much more about "God" and "goodness" than any piece-o-shit Kirk Cameron Christploitation movie.