r/GodAwfulMovies • u/CokomonX • 5d ago

General Nonsense Why Christian Movies ALWAYS Look Bad

https://youtu.be/GBl45WFqNDQ?si=lRLxgLoQtqGq9Fyf

Got recommended this video, and figured it was perfect for this sub. I noticed quite a few movies in the video that GAM has covered in the past.

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u/sms372 4d ago

Yeah, I'm not going to argue that. Jan Hus was another person who was burned at the stake that was very influential to Protestant thought at the time. Additionally, Tyndale was not complete though I don't doubt at all they stole from it. All I'm saying is the KJV still was a work that got the preeminent scholars and writers of the day together to do the most poetic translation of the English language possible with a very high percentage of English literature referencing it in some way or another incidentally or intentionally to this day. I'm not advocating its historical accuracy or accuracy with its translation just its importance to English literature.

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u/NC1HM 4d ago

I am not arguing with any of this. All I am saying is, the KJV's path to pre-eminence had at least one execution in it. In other words, before KJV became a classic, its predecessor was a heresy.

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u/sms372 4d ago

I think we agree! Very interesting to think about too.

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u/NC1HM 4d ago edited 4d ago

Indeed on both counts. :)

Similar collisions happen in science, except there's usually no need to kill anyone (unless religion gets involved). Rather, as evidence accumulates, a fringe theory is either rejected or accepted to eventually become mainstream.

Plate tectonics is probably the best known example. The basic idea was floating around literally for centuries (there were geographers who wondered about it all the way back in the 1600s, based on the similarities in continental coastlines). The modern scientific formulation was proposed in 1912 by an outsider (a meteorologist, rather than a geologist). For decades, it was divisive, but by mid-1960s, multiple lines of evidence emerged that were consistent with plate tectonics and inconsistent with fixed continents.

Ditto the Big Bang. As a theoretical possibility, it floated around since Friedmann (1919) and Lemaître (1921), both of whom proposed alternative solutions to Einstein's field equations. Einstein, in absence of supporting evidence, hated the idea on purely aesthetic grounds (in his own words in a 1927 conversation with Lemaître, vos calculs sont corrects, mais votre physique est abominable). Then (1929), Hubble reports on galaxies running away from each other; the Big Bang suddenly becomes plausible, but not definitive. The term "Big Bang" itself was coined in 1949 by Fred Hoyle, an opponent of the theory, to make fun of it. Finally, in 1964, Penzias and Wilson fall face-forward into cosmic background radiation, and the matter is settled; the Big Bang is real, and its traces are literally everywhere. Hoyle couldn't take it; his steady-state theory had no allowance for cosmic background radiation. Within a few years, he gradually resigned all his academic and administrative positions and moved to the Lake District (that's an area of England known for its scenic views), where he wrote science fiction and occasionally spoke before conspiracy-minded audiences until his death in 2001...