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I haven't seen that show. Do they blow up Rabbis or Clerics and then mock their holidays? Does the show have an evil Muslim or Jewish character conspicuous adorned with religious symbols to help us identify his religion as he murders innocent people in cold blood? Or is it a different kind of show? Like a family oriented show? What is it about 'God Friended Me' that bothers you?

This is completely, 100% true. These 'Silver Corollas' have been here for a while now, doing what silver corollas do. I just didn't notice. I think I would gone my entire life without noticing silver corollas, if they hadn't begun to target people I care about, instead of people I've never met, with increasingly direct and divisive and ubiquitous messaging. At this point, I feel that my attention is being demanded. Silver corollas want me to see them. They want me to know who controls the roads. So, you know...now I see them. For the sake of BOTH silver corollas and oblivious schmucks like me, I do hope these STC's will dial back the subversive rhetoric a notch or five. Otherwise other oblivious schmucks might also start to notice what's going on. And history has more than one example of how that turns out. Anyway. Here's my plea for less religious and political antagonism in movies and tv shows.

Quick follow up question; is ridiculing people for what they believe an effective way of changing their minds or persuading them to see things (or vote) your way?

That was a fun and informative tangent. I wanted to add a few things to add to the original conversation.... Consider the late 1990’s early 2000’s. Growing up during this time, my TV told me to distrust Muslims. All of the major networks agreed, Muslims want to kill me and my family. And I have to admit, as a young adult, I was influenced by the TV and started to fear these ‘dangerous people’ who I’d never met. My hillbilly brethren started to openly hate Muslims, despite having never met one. When we eventually went to war, destabilizing Muslim countries, killing or arresting their leaders, we did so with full approval of my friends and neighbors and the rest of the American people…who’d been watching those same anti-Muslim TV shows. And now my TV is telling me I should distrust Christians. I’m being told they are detestable, deplorable, racist villains who deserve ridicule and hate. I can see from your responses, that, once again, many of those around me agree with the TV's message. And I wonder, where are we going with this? Images from 'Happy-season 2' - Nuns being blown up in a park, accompanied by comical music.

Member when you turned on your video game and spent the next 20-80 hours exploring a new world or experiencing an interactive story? I member. Now we get this: 1. All games must be a live service with a monthly fee. 2. Publish game half finished. Sell the second half of the game as "DLC" 3. Make game grindy AF, then charge real money to speed up leveling or buy necessary resources. 4. Phone games are almost exclusively pay to win now. Great games out there, but if you don't spend hundreds or thousands, you're food for 'whales'. 5. The following is a chart for how Activision's matchmaking algorithm works. Hint: it has nothing to do with matching equally powered players. At what point do these monetization strategies backfire? Or have younger people accepted they'll need to spend hundreds of dollars on AAA games?

Listing rebuttals by popularity. 1. Christians deserve ridicule 2. All religions are fake. Atheism is the one true true. 2 All religions are ridiculed equally in the media. (Demonstrably false) 3. Trump. 4. OP is an asshole (Demonstrably true.)

I assumed I'd have to find a new message board when I created the thread. So far it looks like the most popular reaction to a coordinated campaign against a major religion in America is that 'Christians deserve ridicule".

I could have posted 200 examples, but who has the energy for that? I agree with "Why should Christians get a pass'." They shouldn't. And I agree, there is a ton of anti-Muslim propaganda out there. The 90's and 2000's were almost exclusively anti-Muslim (In the US and UK). However, as a consumer of main stream media, I disagree that everyone is getting their turn in the dunk tank...at least, not in movies and TV, where young people often look to form their opinions about the world.

I'll take all the butt salve you've got, thank you! But okay. I've got you registered with "Trump did this/They did it first."

This is actually what I was referring to when I was thinking 'you guys deserve it'...but now that I'm seeing anti-Christian stuff EVERYWHERE, it's changed the way I look at some of these 'news reports'. If there is a coordinated anti-Christian effort, those in charge need to dial it back about 5 notches. People far more important an influential are undoubtedly noticing the same thing.

Subtlety is a part of the new campaign and what makes it particularly psyops-like. If you want something a bit more obvious, let's go back to 2013 for 'Sweetwater'. Here’s the evil-rapist-murderer priest painting his one of his gigantic white crosses with a fresh coat of white paint...before descending and mercilessly taunting and eventually killing another guy. The movie's premise is that he killed these two young men, Noah and Levi, I believe...something similar to that. I could go on, but what would be the point. There’s an entire GENRE of evil priest and evil preacher movies and shows. Every fourth show I watch now has an evil Christian as one of the characters. As a non participant, I can't help but conclude that the media/hollywood wants me to hate Christians. It reminds me of the 90's and 2000's, when, as a young man, I was taught to hate Muslims by TV and movies. Are we just not going to do religious tolerance in America anymore? We done with all that?

The Blacklist, season 6—Two white, Methodist pawnbrokers are out there doing bad things. The fact they are Methodist doesn’t have anything to do with the plot, its just thrown in there as if its just one of their many terrible attributes. Here we see her crucifix conspicuously worn outside of her sweater--in case we forgot she was Christian…while she guns down this hapless young man. The crucifix remains in the frame for the rest of the scene. These damned Christians pawnbrokers!

The Punisher, season 2 –premise. Evil Christian-type villain does a bunch of evil shit I don’t know I got to the third episode and started losing interest and haven't gone back to it to finish. I'm assuming the evil Christian kept quoting bible verses as he did despicable evil thing. Something's not quite right with this church...can't put my finger on it... Oh that's right...they're Nazis. Here is our arch villain at home, showing off his Nazi tattoos with a crucifix on the wall in his bedroom.

Condor, season 1—Story’s is about an evil Christian organization planning to release a deadly plague at Mecca. This evil Christian cabal is led by a CIA director-type (CIA is called ‘Christian In Action’ by the shows hero). The arch villain is always praying on camera…like in this image, at the side of his bed like a child. An ally of the hero enters and points a gun at his head, says something like, “I find you here praying like a kid wishing on Santa” Again, the guy praying is the villain of the story.

I used to laugh at my Christian friends when they talked about being ridiculed. "Maybe in other countries, but not here." Or if I was in a mood, "Maybe you deserve it." Well, after watching far too many movies and tv shows and reading too many message board/social media posts/news articles over the last two years, I'm not laughing at them anymore. Since a somewhat notable election, there would appear to be a coordinated and sustained effort to shame and vilify people of the Christian faith. I submit the following examples for your consideration and look forward to your rebuttals...

Gotcha. Hadn't watched in a while. Each team should just stay on their end of the court and do some kind of cool offensive thing, then pitch the ball to other end of the court and let them do the same. I've seen more intensity in rec pick-up games.

What's the point of naming the teams after one player? Not sure I get the point of that...

I wasn't aware of that and do appreciate you pointing it out. I didn't read comic books as a kid and made my post after the watching several new shows/movies with overtly Christian evildoers. The hottest new trend in social engineering got under my skin a little, but posting about it here on a super hero tv show thread, on a texas football message board , was pretty dumb on my part. I'd withdraw my comment if I could. Enjoy your programming, y'all.

EP. 3 Oh hey look, ANOTHER villain who identifies as Christian. Christians are the new Muslims, apparently. Every other show I watch now has a villain blatantly identifying himself as a Christian. Can nobody tell a fucking story without a social/religious/political message anymore?

Ep. 1. Whoever the bad guys are, they're doing a great job at diversity hiring. Never seen so many women enforcers in an action movie/show. Also, that bar fight was awesome.

Enjoying it though. Love this kind of pacing and mood.

So, 2.2 seasons into this show, here's my theory. Guy writes script for season 1 of True Detective. Nic Pollazo gets the script. Loves it. Adds a few minor details, then decides that he actually wrote the entire thing. Nic Pollazo wins wealth and fame. Original writer unrecognized, goes back to obscurity. Pollazo has to write second season by himself, without original writer's help. Season 2 happens. Producers tell Pollazo to write like he did in season 1. Pollazo pulls out original script for season 1 and changes the names and a few minor details of the characters, again. Somewhere out there, there's a guy ho can really write...and sadly we may never see another script from him because this asshole Pollazo stole his work.

"Alabama humble brag" would make a good bluegrass band name.

Honest to god, i was just now looking at the nba schedule for tonight because i forgot this game was on. Probably a dick move to post it here, but i can't make myself care enough to watch. Will check the scores in a couple hours. Hope clemson wins.

Fog of War was so great because McNamara admitted to making mistakes. He spoke like a person who had reflected on a lifetime of big decisions, felt sympathy for his enemies, felt sympathy for those who died as a result of his decisions, and revealed a surprising amount of detail about wartime decision making. I would guess that Cheney believes everything he's ever said or done was right, continues to view his enemies as non-humans, and would answer most questions with "I'm not going to talk about that."