At first by the title, I thought your tackling Nietzsche's critique on society.

Might need to convert the .ODT to something more accessible.
The entire film series is totted as awful for good reason. Often the same critique that is splatted on other prescribed "Christian" media. The first one's boom was attributed to title alone because it endures to a conflict of faith and reality.

Fair enough points. The lack of rhetoric is very apparent. Stereotypes used to reinforce a position that ignore reality. If using another faith best research the faith. Its often the trouble media like this. It tries to reinforce an aspect of perspective that is not real (not our faith Christians), but a not real world of otherisim and "enemies" that simply are not like this in real life. Every philosophy professor I know in person is a Christian. That everyone eyes Dawkins (who is a biologist) and thus writes us professors off as all atheists.

Your joking political statement there at the end is a bit hyperbole and distracts from your attention to the film.

That need to go deeper outside of perceived stereotypes to argue a reality that is not actually there. The question of course becomes deeper who is wanting and saying this reality and prescribing the media to try and reinforce it.

Not really any critique unless you want to add deep pulls from the Bible itself, philosophy, education systems, go deeper into the production (why, how, follow the money), lack and liquidation (what the film does not have but claims it has) versus us and our own lack and liquidation of faith and problem solving with God. So some things to explore as that are the themes you touch on in this.

I thought the same thing as Helix with Nietzsche, haha. And I don't know the movie and ones similar to it, but I recall my mother wanting me to watch one that was about some school shooting having place and people praying and then situation getting for the better because of it or something like that overall. It didn't make me want to watch more movies like that and I wasn't impressed. Instead of having better gun control let's pray to Jesus because it will magically work because the movie said so.

And nice seeing you write a review of something as a writer in training trying out different things. ^^ Well, also I see that it has 417 views and honestly I am staring to feel like recently there are bots on FurAffinity that are making these views, because other stories have the same weird increase in views. Or suddenly FurAffinity has two times more people visiting.

I think I know the one you're talking about: To Save a Life. Which isn't amazing, but it at least encourages its audience to treat people better.

I grew up with Veggietales, which it seems had a good reception even among non-Christians. Which goes to show that Christian media can be popular if it's smart, non-judgmental and focuses on the positives. And the co-creator Phil Vischer seems like a prime example of humility; his book Me, Myself and Bob shows how his company grew, he tried to make a movie before he was ready and it all fell apart.

There's a happy ending. Eventually he got the rights to Veggietales back; as far as I know, the show's going on right now.

Hopefully we eventually move on from God's Not Dead and learn to listen to "the Other". Heck, I hope most believers didn't take the films too seriously; maybe they looked around and said, "Hey, the situation isn't that bad."

I'm gonna recommend a book I thought showed the other side's position well. One of the Good Ones follows a girl from a "good Christian" family who learns that (among other things) her late sister was gay. Imagine trying to hide that sort of thing from your own parents while championing gay rights and hoping that someday you don't have to hide it.

The overall theme is that no one is really "one of the good ones"; we all deserve love and respect just for being human. Yes, even those awful straight white men.

Really cool written!

Thank you.