NYT On SDG

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NOTES:

  • Unfortunatley, SDG only gets a brief mention in the story, but it’s nice to see him getting recognition from the MSM. (He’s also been cited by Ebert.)
  • Love the NYTnoid headline: "New Cultural Approach for Conservative Christians: Reviews, Not Protests"–as if protesting movies was the only approach conservative Christians have had up till now, never having reviewed and thoughtfully interacted with and critiqued culture up to now.
  • One of the other review services mentioned in the article–MovieGuide–is an exceptionally disingenuous entity. In a MASSIVE AND UNPROFESSIONAL CONFLICT OF INTEREST the people involved act as a publicity agency for certain movies–which have a suspicious tendency to end up with positive reviews. They also have a knee-jerk Fundamentalist approach to films whose content they don’t like (i.e., "It’s morally objecitonable so it must be artistically lousy, too"). SEE HERE FOR MORE INFO.

Author: Jimmy Akin

Jimmy was born in Texas, grew up nominally Protestant, but at age 20 experienced a profound conversion to Christ. Planning on becoming a Protestant seminary professor, he started an intensive study of the Bible. But the more he immersed himself in Scripture the more he found to support the Catholic faith, and in 1992 he entered the Catholic Church. His conversion story, "A Triumph and a Tragedy," is published in Surprised by Truth. Besides being an author, Jimmy is the Senior Apologist at Catholic Answers, a contributing editor to Catholic Answers Magazine, and a weekly guest on "Catholic Answers Live."

4 thoughts on “NYT On SDG”

  1. Why am I unsurprised to find a quote like this: “Ten years ago, conservatives would say ‘Schindler’s List’ should not be shown because of its nudity,”?

  2. The reason you are unsuprised, Mary, is because you have been acclimatized to a culture of condescension.
    Here’s a test to find out if you, like Mary, are also acclimatized: Identify the quote that was actually in the article posted in the above blog . . .
    QUOTE #1 – “Like their secular counterparts, Christian critics are diverse in their judgments.”
    QUOTE #2 – Like their secular counterparts, Christians are not mutant robot freaks but actual people who eat food and sleep and stuff just like the rest of us!

  3. Behr is an awful movie critic. He just doesn’t -get- worldview philosophy, and judges films on silly bases like how many swear words per unit time or how many square inches of skin, totally ignoring -message-.
    Or at least he did when I read him and decided not to do so again unless I had dangeriously low blood pressure or something 😉

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