Fast Food Jesus.mp3

00:00:04 We've talked about Hollywood's attack on Christianity on this channel before, and some of the obvious and not so obvious reasons, as well as some of the obvious and not so obvious sources of these attacks.
00:00:12 And while most of the time these attacks are gratuitous and flagrant attempts to dissolve the glue that held our society together.
00:00:21 For centuries, the best assaults on morality and God and authority are always those that include at least a color.
00:00:30 People of truth.
00:00:32 Criticisms that come completely from fiction and.
00:00:35 And delusion might be.
00:00:36 Commonplace these days, but in more reasonable times, it was still more effective to try to find a real weakness in the armor than to simply try to just bludgeon your opponent wildly with lies, as it seems to be that you know the strategy.
00:00:50 Today, that's because in these more reasonable times, that armor was still intact, or at least the very decorative veneer was giving off the illusion of strength.
00:01:04 It was still commonly believed by the majority of Americans that America was was Christian.
00:01:11 And that the one nation under God line in the Pledge of Allegiance, was talking about the Christian God, you know.
00:01:17 And and although Christians were quick to defensively say no, no it it could be any.
00:01:22 Any God you know to avoid any church and state legal entanglements.
00:01:27 Everyone quietly knew who that God was.
00:01:31 Christianity was as American as apple pie, as American as McDonald's, as American, as the sprawling suburban shopping centers and malls that sprung up all over the country in the 80s and 90s.
00:01:44 So it's no wonder.
00:01:47 That America was the birth place of fast food, Christianity.
00:01:53 Throughout the 80s and.
00:01:54 90S America saw the rise of Christianity being packaged and marketed and sold like any other product.
00:02:02 This wasn't your grandparents.
00:02:04 This was name brand Jesus.
00:02:06 This was the low calorie, fat free diet.
00:02:09 You could pick up on your way to work along with your Starbucks mocha Frappuccino after your yoga class.
00:02:15 This Jesus had sleek logos and modern buildings that resembled offices where they worked, and the stores where they shopped, and it made them feel more comfortable more.
00:02:24 The ease and these churches were led by charismatic leaders who were who were more like cool tech CEO's than they were stuffy, old men of God. It was the unholy union of capitalism and Christianity.
00:02:39 An entire industry was born.
00:02:41 There was Christian rock Christian rap.
00:02:44 There was even Christian death metal.
00:02:47 Christian romance novels, Christian movies.
00:02:50 All you had to do was throw in a mention of Jesus and say Amen at the end and consumers would line up to buy.
00:02:56 But just like when a name brand that's built up its reputation for years and has become a respectable household name, when one of these big name brands they find themselves in financial trouble because of mismanagement or greed.
00:03:11 And I'm sure everyone listening has seen this happen.
00:03:13 The name brands in the past, you buy the product thinking it's, oh, this is.
00:03:17 You know, this is that company that.
00:03:18 I that I know I can trust.
00:03:21 And then you discover that the brand that you.
00:03:23 Thought you knew and loved.
00:03:26 Is now.
00:03:28 You know you.
00:03:28 Do a little bit of research and you find out that they're just licensing out their name to this cheap Chinese crap because they know they can trick people like you.
00:03:37 Who just trust the name into buying their crap?
00:03:41 And this was always the last gasp of a dying brand because you can only trick people once, and that's exactly what was happening to Christianity in America around the turn of the century.
00:03:53 This cheap plastic version of Christianity.
00:03:57 Was mass produced and then sold to unsuspecting customers so that some cynical capitalists could cash in.
00:04:05 On a failing institution on its way down.
00:04:09 And the worst part is about this.
00:04:11 These brands didn't have to fail.
00:04:13 They didn't have to become synonymous with cheap garbage.
00:04:18 It was simply the path of least resistance for the people at the top who didn't care about what their actions did to the reputation or the future of the brand, as long as they could make some money on the way down now.
00:04:29 This is the type of Christianity that became that weak link in the armor and the angle of attack for the writer and director Brian Dannelly.
00:04:40 Ryan was a troubled child who was thrown out of Catholic school at an early age for, believe it or not, physically assaulting a nun.
00:04:47 And for some reason, Dannelley's parents sent him.
00:04:50 To a Jewish summer.
00:04:52 And then wouldn't you know it shortly after Danny came out as ***? ** * result, danley's contempt for Christianity.
00:05:00 And its stance on the sin of homosexuality would factor heavily into his 2004 film saved.
00:05:08 A film that expertly points out the hypocrisy of the consumer Christian culture but then inserts its own subversive messages in an attempt to undermine Christianity as a whole.
00:05:21 Saved begins with actress Jenna Malone, who plays the protagonist Mary Cummings.
00:05:27 Yes, the wizardry has already begun, and the movie hasn't even started yet.
00:05:33 She's narrating a a brief summary of her back story.
00:05:36 She snarkily suggests that her entire childhood was a lie because Christianity was thrust upon her before she was old enough to comprehend it.
00:05:46 Promoting this idea that has become very popular in recent decades, that children shouldn't be forced into the family traditions and religions they should be given the opportunity to choose for themselves.
00:05:58 And as we have seen in more recent years, this liberal idea.
00:06:03 Has been rapidly sliding down the slippery slope that has now led parents to saying, ah, you know, children shouldn't be forced into their biological gender.
00:06:13 But given the opportunity to choose for themselves, is it really that crazy to think that parents in the future might decide that simply by communicating to their children in in English is imposing language on them and they should be allowed to develop whatever means of communication they choose for themselves when they're old enough to decide?
00:06:34 Mary tells the audience that her father died.
00:06:36 And that she's now being raised by a single mother. This shouldn't be surprising, because this is also an ongoing theme. And about 100% of Hollywood films in this era, especially import.
00:06:49 In a film, though, that that you want to undermine God in because, of course the father figure is the representative of God in the household.
00:06:57 So if you want a film.
00:06:59 Where you're promoting the idea that God is dead, it's not exactly that clever to have the protagonist's father dead and out of the way before you get started, so you can make quick work of of God himself.
00:07:12 And that's what this film will attempt to do symbolically for the audience, ridicule God for the entire duration of the film, and then publicly.
00:07:20 Execute him.
00:07:22 We now come to present day and we see Mary with her friend Hillary, played by Mandy Moore.
00:07:27 The visual here is easy to comprehend.
00:07:29 Mary is now creating.
00:07:32 This image of Jesus to make up for the loss of her father still narrating.
00:07:38 She talks about how Jesus is the center of her life and how she is a model Christian.
00:07:43 She's a member of a Christian band and of course she protests outside of Planned Parenthood.
00:07:49 We begin to see more commercial aspects of the.
00:07:52 Consumer Christianity culture that she.
00:07:54 Part of her mother wins an award for Best Christian interior decorator at a Consumer Christian award show.
00:08:02 Mary goes to consumer Christian raves with her consumer Christian boyfriend, and she goes to a sleek and modern consumer Christian School.
00:08:13 But then?
00:08:14 Everything changes.
00:08:17 Everything changes right after her boyfriend tells her that he's gay.
00:08:22 She then hits her head in the swimming pool and has a vision of Jesus telling her she needs to help her boyfriend not be gay.
00:08:30 Now this implies, of course, that the only people who think Jesus talks to them are suffering from head injuries, and that only a mind suffering from brain damage, mild though it might be.
00:08:42 Would seek to change someone from being gay.
00:08:46 Next, at the gun range, because the audience of course needs to associate guns with scary Christian extremists, Mary's friend mentions a ridiculous fad that was popular at the time among consumer Christians, called Born again virgins.
00:09:02 The concept was that by prayer and donations to your local consumer Christian franchise.
00:09:08 You could become a virgin again.
00:09:10 And really, it's it's this kind of thing right here that that was promoted by these vapid consumer Christians that really made ridiculing Christianity so easy.
00:09:19 You know, whenever I encountered one of these types of Christians, I was reminded of, you know, it's like a well meaning saboteur.
00:09:26 You know, sometimes.
00:09:28 When you're having an argument that these people magically appear.
00:09:31 When you're in.
00:09:32 This, you know, passionate debate and they they think that they're helping you know that these are the people you probably know who I'm talking about.
00:09:39 They're people that are.
00:09:40 You know they're on your side, quote UN quote.
00:09:44 They're so terrible and misinformed with their arguments.
00:09:48 They're so bad and making the case because they themselves, they're on your side, but not because of any well thought out reason.
00:09:56 They're just, they're just on your side.
00:09:58 They're just automatons.
00:10:00 NPC's that are.
00:10:01 They're on your side of the argument, so when they.
00:10:03 Attempt to help you.
00:10:05 In one of these.
00:10:05 Debates they it it's they come across as so bad it makes you look bad.
00:10:11 I mean, they're essentially a walking, talking straw man.
00:10:14 You know they they're caricature, they're they're parodies of themselves and they don't have the self-awareness to to notice that they're essentially working for the enemy. And that's always how I view these consumer Christians.
00:10:26 They're just surface level Christians who honestly, it just seems to me.
00:10:30 Like they they want.
00:10:31 To be Christians so they can be part of a team and really it doesn't matter what that team is.
00:10:35 So Mary gets it in her head that she can have sex with her boyfriend to make him not gay anymore, but it'll be OK because Jesus will make her a virgin again and it'll all just kind of work itself out.
00:10:50 But on the first day.
00:10:51 Of school.
00:10:51 When she goes to pick him up, she finds out that her boyfriend has been sent to a.
00:10:56 Treatment facility by his parents because they found gay **** in his room.
00:11:02 Obviously she's devastated, but they they go to school and now at school we meet the cool Rebel character, a Jewish girl who has had to go to the Christian School because she's been expelled from all the other schools, possibly 119 of them. I'm not sure. Anyway, Roland, Hillary's disabled.
00:11:23 Brother, played by Macaulay Culkin, he's instantly taken by her.
00:11:28 And here we begin to see what I believe is the B story of the film that represents director Brian Dannelley's rejection of Christianity and embrace of Judaism in some superficial way, in his own life. And the interesting thing about the this the scary Jewish character.
00:11:48 Or really, all the misfit characters in this film is that Manny Morris character Hillary, who represents.
00:11:56 You know all that is plastic and fake about the consumer Christian culture.
00:12:01 Uh, she's still pleasant.
00:12:04 And accepting and and and welcoming.
00:12:06 She's she's not the mean girl.
00:12:08 Character that you would expect to see, especially if this was based in a secular school.
00:12:15 Because for all their faults, many of these consumer Christians really did want to do the right thing and and and make God happy.
00:12:24 I mean certainly there.
00:12:24 Was a a large number of these hyper.
00:12:30 Judgmental, unlikable consumer Christians that were were common then and and.
00:12:35 They still exist.
00:12:36 Today, but that would defeat the whole point of this movie.
00:12:40 You know, it would be easy to undermine that if you want to undermine God.
00:12:45 You can't just go after the the obvious bad apples.
00:12:47 You need to show that even those.
00:12:49 Who are trying their best to be welcoming, inclusive and are good and nice.
00:12:53 Pleasant to be around even these people.
00:12:57 They are worthy of ridicule, too, and should be targeted.
00:13:01 So Mandy Moore's character throughout the film, she's always trying to save the Jewish girl. She's never mean or nasty about it, or at least not tell she's been, you know, pushed over the edge and is.
00:13:13 Responding to a mountain.
00:13:15 Of bad behavior from the Jewish.
00:13:18 And she's just completely, you know, run out of patience. But for the first half of the film, she's always trying to help and befriend the the, the rebel Jewish, you know, Cassandra Edelstein, played by Eva Amori, who returns the favor by constantly mocking Hillary's faith.
00:13:37 Swearing allegiance to Satan just to like shock and humiliate her.
00:13:42 When the entire time Hillary is just trying to be your friend, legitimately, genuinely trying.
00:13:47 To be your friend.
00:13:48 And as I said, Hillary for the alpha girl at the school, she's extremely pleasant when compared to a secular character.
00:13:57 She doesn't treat her disabled brother differently.
00:14:01 And takes time to wheel them around and and drive them around in a in a big van.
00:14:07 She's nice to the other kids at the school that have disabilities and she's not ashamed to be seen interacting with them.
00:14:13 She's, you know, certainly controlling and has those alpha girl traits that make her obnoxious.
00:14:19 But unlike the Jewish girl that she's trying to save.
00:14:24 She means well.
00:14:26 But somehow, through the wizardry of movie magic.
00:14:31 The audience is still left with the sense that.
00:14:35 This girl, who has been welcomed into the Christian School after being kicked out of every other school.
00:14:43 Is the cool one, this girl who repays the hospitality by attempting to sabotage and destroy the society that has taken her in.
00:14:54 She's the cool one.
00:14:57 The next character we meet is the son of Pastor Skip.
00:15:01 Pastor Skip is the hip, cool tech CEO.
00:15:04 Like Pastor that all the kids like his son is a cool Christian skater, and Mary instantly likes him.
00:15:13 So we follow these characters through school, Cassandra, the Jewish student temps, Rolland with cigarettes and flirts with him, and begins to lead him away from the first time that they meet her entire goal in interacting with them is to lead him away.
00:15:28 From the church.
00:15:29 She mocks the school sermon and and pretends to speak in tongues and starts ripping her clothes off while yelling sexually explicit words while the Christian students.
00:15:40 Are trying to worship their God.
00:15:42 She shows up drunk and obnoxious, but the Christian students makes sure that she.
00:15:47 Gets home safely.
00:15:49 She sexually harasses Hillary in in gym class.
00:15:53 All with comedic timing, of course.
00:15:55 Lighten up, Christians.
00:15:57 Don't you want to be like the cool Satanist Jew?
00:16:01 I've decided to devote my life to Satan instead.
00:16:05 We soon discover that Mary is is actually pregnant from having sex with her gay boyfriend earlier in the film, and now this creates a crisis of faith.
00:16:15 Now I find it interesting that the film makers chose to use something like this as the catalyst for destroying her faith.
00:16:21 Mary was completely unshaken by the loss of her father.
00:16:25 If anything, that strengthened her faith in God, but.
00:16:28 Now, now that she she's pregnant because of actions that she chose to do.
00:16:35 Even if you know she delusionally thought that those actions were inspired by God, her decision to have unprotected sex and the obvious possible consequence of that action.
00:16:45 Is what causes her to lose.
00:16:47 All faith in God.
00:16:49 But it also gives the film makers an opportunity to show this girl, who was just moments ago, earlier in the film, protesting outside of a a Planned Parenthood.
00:16:59 You know that that despicable Christian behave.
00:17:02 Now she's having to crawl back with her head down low in need of their very necessary services.
00:17:10 But she doesn't get an abortion.
00:17:13 But she does abruptly reject God.
00:17:17 You know, just moments ago, earlier in the film, she's talking about God was literally the center of her life.
00:17:22 And she throws it all away in an instant.
00:17:25 She also rejects her Christian friends because she's angry that they're praying for her gay boyfriend.
00:17:32 And as we've seen in other movies I've reviewed, especially from this era, her bloomer single mom is completely oblivious to everything and is just self involved with her own social life and career aspirations.
00:17:46 And the reason there's so many movies.
00:17:48 Like that is.
00:17:50 This was the norm for children of boomers.
00:17:54 Especially single mother boomers, their children were forced to to navigate.
00:18:00 The mine fields.
00:18:02 Of of this civilization that was just starting to.
00:18:04 Unravel without any help.
00:18:06 From their parents.
00:18:08 Who? Whose generation?
00:18:10 Was the one responsible?
00:18:11 For for planning the mines in.
00:18:13 The minefield, so without any guidance from a A, a God or a a father or a mother, Mary experiments with kooky new age religions and and tries to replace the God that she rejected.
00:18:27 She also begins to kind of start the day.
00:18:31 Patrick the.
00:18:32 The cool pastor's son but keeps her pregnancy a secret. Eventually, though, she does confide in the only person who will understand the Jewish girl who regularly praises Satan.
00:18:45 Now, it might be surprising to some of you that she just doesn't go and get an abortion.
00:18:50 At this point in the movie.
00:18:52 We have to remember that Mary getting an abortion in 2004 would have instantly turned off the target audience.
00:19:00 The white middle class suburban Christians who this this whole movie was made for, they would have just shut down immediately.
00:19:07 And discarded all the rest of the the carefully crafted messages the movie was communicating.
00:19:12 So instead they they decided to, you know, not getting abortion but just conceal her pregnancy.
00:19:21 So now Mary hangs out with the Jewish girl and Macaulay Culkin, who has also lost his faith completely and spends all his time drinking, smoking, and making out with the Jewish girl.
00:19:33 There's a montage.
00:19:34 Time passes.
00:19:35 The movie then takes it up a notch and decides to question openly the divinity of Christ.
00:19:41 Suggests, as the Talmud teaches, that Mary got pregnant.
00:19:46 And just made.
00:19:47 The whole story up.
00:19:48 Don't you ever wonder if she made?
00:19:49 The whole thing up.
00:19:49 Herod inquired of them.
00:19:51 And you have to admit it's a.
00:19:52 Good one.
00:19:53 It's not like anyone could use virgin birth as an excuse again.
00:19:57 And and you understand the film.
00:19:59 Makers didn't fear retribution from Christians at.
00:20:01 All you know.
00:20:02 If they'd made a movie where they said something.
00:20:04 Like that about Muhammad?
00:20:05 You know, they'd be worried about the studio game.
00:20:07 Bombed it would.
00:20:08 They'd never be able to make it.
00:20:09 They don't have to worry about that.
00:20:10 With Christians, Christians aren't going to do anything.
00:20:13 They know it's all just, it's just a veneer.
00:20:15 It's a paper tiger.
00:20:17 Christians are no longer danger.
00:20:19 You know, and their blade having found the weak spot was was beneath the armor, so they might as well just start twisting.
00:20:27 We find out the cool Pastor is of course.
00:20:30 He's a big hypocrite.
00:20:31 And he's banging Mary's mom.
00:20:34 And then there's the seeing where Mary's having sexual fantasies.
00:20:38 About Patrick, while he's dressed up as Jesus, she falls further and further away from God, but this is all framed as like a fun, happy good.
00:20:49 You know, this group of misfits?
00:20:50 They dig up old pictures of Hillary.
00:20:52 For when she was younger.
00:20:53 And and not pretty and and.
00:20:55 Humiliate her by passing them out to the whole school.
00:20:58 The protagonist, the people that the audience is supposed to be sympathetic to.
00:21:02 Are are the bullies.
00:21:04 They're they're literally the bad guys.
00:21:07 They are the spiteful.
00:21:08 Mutants seeking to undermine the society.
00:21:12 Out of displeasure with their with their.
00:21:14 Own shortcomings, their own decisions.
00:21:17 Their own godlessness.
00:21:19 So eventually the Christian girl, Hillary, she does snap and she frames the misfits for vandalizing the school and as a result, word gets out that Mary is pregnant.
00:21:32 And but Patrick, you know, he tells her, you know, that's fine.
00:21:36 He's more than willing to be a ****.
00:21:38 And in fact, he'll he'll take her to the prom.
00:21:40 So at the end of the movie, the writers kind of get lazy, and I've seen this a bunch of times in in teen movies, you get to the prom scene and they just got to, like, hurry up and wrap everything up, you know.
00:21:51 So that's kind of what they do in this movie, you know, Hillarys busted for framing the misfits. And Mary's gay ex-boyfriend shows up with all the other gay.
00:22:01 Kids from the clinic because they apparently escaped and and you know, he's excited that she's having his baby and and that she has a new boyfriend, Hillary freaks out and and then we get to the.
00:22:14 Big climax.
00:22:16 The public execution of God.
00:22:20 At the hands of his most faithful defender in the film.
00:22:25 Hillary, while shouting her resentment for God.
00:22:28 Rams her van into the same image of Jesus that she was creating in the opening scene of the film, knocking his head off.
00:22:37 In dramatic fashion.
00:22:39 And it's not until now.
00:22:41 Now that she has fully rejected Jesus.
00:22:45 That the Jewish.
00:22:46 Girl, who has been taunting her and humiliating her and assaulting her the entire film.
00:22:52 It's not until now.
00:22:55 That the Jewish girl. Finally.
00:22:56 Offers her embrace her friendship.
00:23:01 She is now.
00:23:02 Now that Hillary.
00:23:04 Has rejected God.
00:23:06 She's now one of them.
00:23:08 Then marrying the born again Virgin.
00:23:12 Goes into labor.
00:23:15 And her baby is born.
00:23:18 Born to this group of misfits.
00:23:21 The pesky Christian God is is dead.
00:23:24 And everyone is happy and hopeful.
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