Time Better Spent

I did watch "The Passion of the Christ". I did not watch ABC's movie "Judas" tonight. Why the difference? I could tell by the previews that it was not going to be faith inspiring treatment of the subject. The preview scene I saw had Jesus saying to Judas "Do what you have to my friend". He may as well as just said "Hey dude, whatever".

I agree with Ann Coulter's take on the subject in her column this week: that liberals just don't have a clue what Christianity's about. Therefore they can't tell the difference between a good movie on the topic and a bad one. And it's mostly liberals making movies, including the producer of "Judas". They really and truly can't tell the difference between a blasphemous portrayal like "The last temptation of Christ" and Mel Gibson's faithful portrayal in "The Passion of the Christ". That's why they can't understand the failure of the former and the radical success of the latter ($215 million in two weeks and counting) at the box office.

It's too predictable what will happen next in the liberal mind and elite media. It goes like this.

1. They didn't like or understand "The Passion" and don't believe bible stories can make money.
2. They predicted it's failure.
3. They didn't understand it's success.
4. They attributed it only to "brilliant marketing".
5. They'll assume that "Judas" will succeed because it's a bible story and they must be doing well now.
6. They'll be puzzled when "Judas" gets low ratings.
7. They'll conclude that bible stories must not do well after all and confirm their opinion that it was only Mel's marketing and the "controversy" that succeeded.

And they'll never get that there is a market for faithful films and not for the PC pap that they put out.

My time was better spent tonight re-watching "The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers". It has a positive, faith inspiring, message. I like it when Sam-wise tells Frodo at the end that "there's good in the world and it's worth fighting for". Who knows what Judas said in ABC's version.