Rating Christianity?
Posted by: David Bunch
Church of the Masses blog has an interesting piece on the PG rating of upcoming film Facing the Giants. The blogger states that she has in fact seen the movie, and there is nothing in it to warrant a PG rating. On the contrary,
Church of the Masses blog has an interesting piece on the PG rating of upcoming film Facing the Giants. The blogger states that she has in fact seen the movie, and there is nothing in it to warrant a PG rating. On the contrary,
The MPAA reviewers gave the film a PG rating for "Christian content." When they were called on it, MPAA spokesmen backed off of Christianity as the reason for the rating, but, too bad for them, one of their original statements had included the note that some people might be offended by the prosletizing in the film.My guess is that a movie about Skinhead Fascism would be upheld by the Hollywood clowns as the paragon of artistic creativity.
The film should still not have gotten a PG rating. The truth is, it isn't the MPAA's job to warn audiences that a movie is coming from a particular sub-culture. Their job is to protect kids from harm. Now, if the sub-culture out of which the movie was coming was Skinhead Fascism or the North American Man Boy Love Association, it would be the job of the MPAA to flag the film as morally problematic. But Christianity, even over-simplified, saccharin, sentimental Christianity, is not a moral problem.
