{"id":3739,"date":"2011-01-27T07:41:00","date_gmt":"2011-01-27T07:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/daffeythoughts\/2011\/01\/randy-sly-likes-the-rite.html"},"modified":"2011-01-27T07:41:00","modified_gmt":"2011-01-27T07:41:00","slug":"randy-sly-likes-the-rite","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/daffeythoughts\/2011\/01\/randy-sly-likes-the-rite.html","title":{"rendered":"Randy Sly likes &#8220;The Rite&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p>I\u2019ll see.\u00a0 But<a href=\"http:\/\/www.catholic.org\/ae\/movies\/review.php?id=40094\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"> his review<\/a> suggests it might be worth seeing. \u00a0I don\u2019t go to movies that much anymore.\u00a0 I will if there\u2019s something my boys might want to see.\u00a0 Otherwise, I\u2019m happy to wait for DVDs.\u00a0 I also don\u2019t look for too many devotional films that will uplift my soul.\u00a0 Hollywood is usually as good at deep and thoughtful religious reflection as it is promoting historical accuracy.\u00a0 Worse with Hollywood takes on religion is the nuances involved.\u00a0 It can play fast and loose with historical facts if it has to, in order to make an obvious point.\u00a0 That\u2019s fair (as long as folks keep that in mind).\u00a0 But with religion, the problem can be those slight shimmies of doctrine, or digressions from the truth.\u00a0 It can seem like something that is awash in Christian teaching, but along the way an ever-so-subtle non-Christian (if not anti-Christian) viewpoint enters in.\u00a0 I\u2019m not saying that happens in <em>The Rite<\/em>.\u00a0 I\u2019ve not seen it, and am willing to give the benefit of the doubt.\u00a0 But doubt is just what I have whenever I see any television show or film approach the topic of religious truth.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019ll see.\u00a0 But his review suggests it might be worth seeing. \u00a0I don\u2019t go to movies that much anymore.\u00a0 I will if there\u2019s something my boys might want to see.\u00a0 Otherwise, I\u2019m happy to wait for DVDs.\u00a0 I also don\u2019t look for too many devotional films that will uplift my soul.\u00a0 Hollywood is usually as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2805,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3739","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Randy Sly likes &quot;The Rite&quot;<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"I&#039;ll see.&nbsp; 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