Saw this at the top of the page:"Cops" crew member killed by friendly fire.

Guy tried to hold up a Wendy's with a pellet gun, things turned out way more tragic than National Lampoon's Vacation led me to believe. While firing 30 bullets, the bacon plugged not only the perp, but one of the guys filming them. And Darwin is appeased for another news cycle.

How not to react when your kid tells you he's gay.

I'm betting there are a couple of people who will buy tickets to this here.

Obviously, that's terrible parenting. On the other hand, the kid had (apparently) 20 years to figure out that his parents were homophobic shitbags. He should have had his stuff packed and a place to stay lined up so that when they reacted in the expected fashion he could have simply gotten up and left with his dignity intact.

You can hear that he's been using his average-to-slightly-above-average intelligence to manipulate his pitifully ignorant mother for a while now. He may have been expecting this to turn out way better than it did.

Two points about this movie not yet mentioned:
* The main character is named "Christian White". Presumably his middle name is "Nohomo".
* Cameron's previous movie Monumental tries to justify Christian nationalism by promoting the Pilgrims as the true founders of the US and Plymouth colony an exemplar of how the US should be. The Pilgrims outlawed Christmas because it is not Christian.

They also landed at Plymouth rock because they ran out of beer.

I think that point needs to be hammered home. :-)

God provided them the opportunity to steal some food from the natives.

Mostly I favor Crom, but today is for Ganesha.

There's a sucker born-again every minute.

Well this is gonna fuck up any google searches for my serial.

I'm not a Christian, or any other kink of theist, but I can certainly appreciate how frustrating it must be to see one of your holiest days turned into a celebration of crass consumerism. The trailer in the link doesn't look all that awful. I can imagine it being done with a reasonable tone, as a simple reminder to those of faith to keep in mind what it's all about.

It's not my thing, but I don't see any need to bash it.

There's a market for confirming people's persecution complex. The whole "War on Christmas" rhetoric is a money maker for content providers on the right.

The trailer message is to put christ back in christmas, but don't give up our favorite traditions (pagan tree, winter solstice celebration, santa claus) while blaming someone else for ruining christmas. They want state-sponsored baby jesus/manger displays and feel insulted if somebody says "happy holidays." If Christians want to avoid the commercialization, they should just quit buying stuff for Christmas - after, they are in the majority.

However, that may well change when the actual movie is out. Trailers, as we all know, can be very deceptive.

Wait, is this movie about turning Christmas back into a religious holiday or about the War On Christmas (tm)? Is it about getting people back into churches on December 25th or about getting retail employees to say "Merry Christmas" to the customers instead of "Happy Holidays"?

That's why I said my opinion could change when the movie is actually out. The trailer points to it being about bringing the focus of the holiday back to the story of the birth of the Christian savior. If that's the case, I'm fine with that.

If it's about drumming up anger and indignation about being attacked because you are Christian and take personal offense that not everyone is a person of faith who follows your practices, then no, I'm not ok with that.

The trailer speaks poorly of pagan idols. That can be extrapolated into enough scientific ignorance and religious bigotry to warrant bashing.

Did not check sandbox. Ass was made of self.

www.youtube.com/embed/B8i0ypSqBxE

Kind of like how 'Dies Natalis Solis Invicti' was usurped by a bunch of heretics?

Yeah, poor Christians.

Probably more or less like having your winter solstice celebration repurposed as propaganda for a foreign god of pain and death.

My family throws Solstice and Equinox parties, but we don't give the Christians a hard time about it.

I'll stop giving them a hard time on it when they stop intruding on secular areas.

Right, because these things are always game changers. Remember when Ben Stein made his anti-evolution movie where he whined that nobody in academia takes creationism seriously? At least that was presented as a pseudo-documentary. This just looks like it'll be a bad movie with a "message".

I had successfully forgotten that science-phobic turd of a pseudo-documentary until now. It was so cringe inducing.

CHRISTMAS IS TOO COMMERCIAL!
(buy tickets to my movie)

I saw another link about this film, and it's got some interesting analysis and all, but someone in the comments figured out what had been bothering me about the poster ol' Kirk put out:

Fitting. A movie about a man from a fictional idealized world awkwardly dealing with the realities of ours.

I wanted to put the Hog back in the Hogmanay but the fucking vegans got all tofu-squirrely

Oddly enough, "Fireproof" is on open TV now. If I hadn't read this post, I wouldn't have realized that it is a religiously oriented movie.