{"id":1529,"date":"2013-05-28T07:34:35","date_gmt":"2013-05-28T13:34:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/frankschaeffer\/?p=1529"},"modified":"2015-03-12T17:45:11","modified_gmt":"2015-03-12T23:45:11","slug":"why-go-to-hell-when-you-dont-have-to","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/frankschaeffer\/2013\/05\/why-go-to-hell-when-you-dont-have-to\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Go To Hell When You Don&#8217;t Have To?"},"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>Kevin Miller\u2019s astonishingly good film\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.hellboundthemovie.com\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Hellbound?<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0is now available on iTunes, Amazon, Vudu, Google Play and Youtube Movies. I\u2019m in it (as a minor part) but so are a lot of people you\u2019ll like, no matter what you think of me! Conservative right wing evangelicals like the editors of <em>Christianity Today<\/em> magazine,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/frankschaeffer\/2012\/09\/everything-you-always-hated-about-christianity-today-magazine-but-were-afraid-to-say\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\">hate this movie<\/a>. That should be reason enough to like it, but there\u2019s more. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hellboundthemovie.com\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Hellbound?<\/a>\u00a0makes a profound argument for a loving God. What\u2019s so scary about that, to sane people anyway? And for those outside North America, it is available exclusively on Vimeo-on-Demand. People can order it on all formats through our one-stop shop:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.hellboundthemovie.com\/shop\/\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\" decorated-link\">http:\/\/www.hellboundthemovie.com\/shop\/<\/a><\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/59681691?api=1\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>If you want the special features, they\u2019re available only on the DVD, also available through the \u201cHellbound?\u201d shop.<\/p>\n<p>Please help us spread the word on Facebook, Twitter, your blog, etc.<\/p>\n<p>And BTW I have <strong>no<\/strong> official let alone financial connection with this project. I just happen to believe in it.<\/p>\n<p>All the best,<br>\nFrank Schaeffer<\/p>\n<div><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hellboundthemovie.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\" decorated-link\" rel=\"nofollow\">www.hellboundthemovie.com<\/a><\/div>\n<div><a href=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/hellbound\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\" decorated-link\">http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/hellbound\/<\/a><\/div>\n<div><a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/kevin-miller\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\" decorated-link\" rel=\"nofollow\">http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/kevin-miller\/<\/a><\/div>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kevin Miller\u2019s astonishingly good film\u00a0Hellbound?\u00a0\u00a0is now available on iTunes, Amazon, Vudu, Google Play and Youtube Movies. I\u2019m in it (as a minor part) but so are a lot of people you\u2019ll like, no matter what you think of me! Conservative right wing evangelicals like the editors of Christianity Today magazine,\u00a0hate this movie. That should be [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1161,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[9,52,49,33,1794,361,13,46,38],"class_list":["post-1529","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-frank-schaeffer","tag-hell","tag-hellbound-the-movie","tag-kevin-miller","tag-politics","tag-progressive-christians","tag-religious-right","tag-salvation","tag-theology"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Why Go To Hell When You Don&#039;t Have To?<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Kevin Miller\u2019s astonishingly good film\u00a0Hellbound?\u00a0\u00a0is now available on iTunes, Amazon, Vudu, Google Play and Youtube Movies. 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