Heretical musings on religion and culture from a literary scholar
I love Julianne Moore and Chloë Grace Moretz, and I think they were perfect in the roles of Stephen King's "Carrie" and her crazy-religious-freak mother. But there was a lot about the 2013 movie adaption of King's novel that was disturbing. And no, not just all the blood, violence, gore and death. Carrie was a very Christian movie. Of course the original story is already highly religious in nature, with Carrie being forced to pray for forgiveness ...
I swear not 3 months goes by before I see the movie trailer for a new cinematographic take on the "Demonic Possession" genre. The newest in this long, long chain of movies (all of which are eaten up by the faithful as pop culture affirmations of religious experiences, based on TRUE STORIES of demonic possession and exorcism), is "The Possession: Darkness Lives Inside." The tagline: "Fear the Demon that Doesn't Fear God." Proof that Demonic Possession is ...
Any good Christian has to believe in demonic possession. After all, Jesus was always casting out demons. If the Bible and Christianity is true, then Jesus couldn't have mistakenly viewed mental illness using the common superstition of possession. He would have known better. So they're real. That basis has been the support for dozens of demonic possession/exorcism movies, which mostly make good entertainment because, demonically possessed people look really freaking scary. They are great horror flicks. But ...
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