Yeah, they do it too and your link details a bunch of examples. Quakers don’t burn people however, or shun people which is nice.
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IIRC, they did disown people.
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and they did give us Richard Nixon.
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Not films, but another example of an explicitly Christian band not sucking is Belle and Sebastian…
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And nobody can say Johnny Cash lacked for talent even if his music wasn’t everyone’s cup of tea.
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It’s not my thing but Lift to Experience and in particular their album The Texas Jerusalem Crossroads is pretty highly respected.
It’s straight up Christian rock. Just a bit shoegazey.
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I’m listening to it now and enjoying it. It’s not like what I might listen to often but I’m pretty cloudy minded now and it works.
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Norman Greenbaum’s 1969 hit “Spirit in the Sky” is legitimately one of the catchiest Christian/Gospel rock songs ever written, even made it into the Guardians of the Galaxy soundtrack. Which is ironic considering Greenbaum himself is Jewish.
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Yeah and I love many, many devotional musics from all around the world, from righteous Rastafari to levantine masses to Wexford microtonal carols to Bach.
And of course lots that isn’t Christian too…
Religion is just so important to music all around the world and, as someone was talking about upthread: yes absolutely. Large churches are designed around music. The development of harmony in Europe is related to cathedrals. It had been banned in church music (though chanting had introduced tenor lines and grounds gradually over the centuries) but things like Notre Dame cathedral whose acoustics were used by Leonin and Perotin as a justification for polyphony took away any argument.
ETA but obvious point backing up someone else above. Christian music is great because in general it focuses on the mysteries, spirituality, joyful celebration etc rather than atheists are evil. Mostly.
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Films with, by, or about Scientologists bore me to death, too.
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Even this?
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We’ve been bombarded by pretentious and self-serving expressions of Christian piety for so long that even when some of them do exactly what @Aztec_Cardiologist suggests, we don’t trust it
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One more “explicitly Christian but still quite entertaining” movie for the list:
Note that that Indiana Jones never tried to convert anyone even though he had firsthand knowledge that Biblical miracles from the Old and New Testaments were literally, indisputably real.
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But didn’t he have that information about all sorts of non-christian god’s and demons too?
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He had that encounter with the Hindu deity Kali, but she didn’t really make the kind of first impression that encouraged worship.
By contrast the Biblical Jehovah (“Iehova” in Latin!) was portrayed as a righteous badass because He, like Indiana himself, killed a bunch of Nazis.
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Exactly.
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He invoked Shiva to make the magical stones too hot to handle. If anything Dr. Jones is a universalist. Possibly just an atheist who considers the supernatural as just another tool/area of study.
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