{"id":113469,"date":"2019-10-04T00:00:49","date_gmt":"2019-10-04T07:00:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/markshea\/?p=113469"},"modified":"2019-10-18T21:51:32","modified_gmt":"2019-10-19T04:51:32","slug":"kevin-sorbo-king-of-khristianist-cinema-defends-the-sacred-fetish","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/markshea\/2019\/10\/kevin-sorbo-king-of-khristianist-cinema-defends-the-sacred-fetish.html","title":{"rendered":"Kevin Sorbo, King of Republican Rite Cinema, Defends the Sacred Fetish"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

Here\u2019s the official synopsis:<\/p>\n

Alone and vulnerable, the children\u2019s faith and family bonds are pushed to the limit, especially those of the eldest daughter, Sophie (Mollee Gray), who questions the morality of gun ownership but soon learns that in God all things are good, including her family\u2019s Second Amendment right to defend themselves.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
<\/iframe><\/p>\nAnd because this is being marketed to Good White Christians, there is also something called a \u201cFaith Trailer\u201d so that they can reassure themselves they are actually watching Christian values and not ham-fisted culture war violence porn for Ned Flanders to view when the children are in bed.<\/p>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/R-_K7OeNyDg\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\nIndeed, Tim Schmidt, the CEO of the U.S. Concealed Carry Association and executive producer of \u201cThe Reliant,\u201d also described this R-rated film as \u201cfamily friendly.\u201d<\/p>\n\u201cOh, it\u2019s just a movie, Mark.\u201d That\u2019s odd. That\u2019s not what the Gun Cult was saying a couple of months ago when a vile \u201csatire\u201d called <a href=\"https:\/\/time.com\/5650047\/the-hunt-movie-canceled\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">The Hunt<\/em><\/a> was pulled from release for being a violent fantasy about hunting Deplorables for sport. Back then, the Cult was perfectly aware that encouraging fantasies about murdering Culture War enemies is the standard way that stochastic terrorists urge their peers and lackeys to really do it. You know, like this:<\/p>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Zx8B00f4PSs\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/media\/the-hunt-movie-deplorables-hollywood-politics\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">The Hunt<\/em> was, in fact, a huge Panic du Jour for a few days at FOX<\/a> and was used to shriek that the Libs Are Coming to Kill Us and That\u2019s Why We Need Guns!!!!!! Of course, in the real world, <a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/2019\/film\/news\/the-hunt-universal-craig-zobel-1203299514\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">the movie was pulled by the studio and even the director agreed that this was a good idea<\/a>.\u00a0 Compare this responsible act to Trump, who never walked back his calls to violence and murder.\u00a0 Rather, he promised to pay the legal bills of his thugs.<\/p>\nNot coincidentally, in the real world, a man regurgitating nearly word-for-word the language of Trump and FOX walked into a store in El Paso and slaughtered a bunch of brown people while wounding a bunch more back in August. Similar racially-motivated shootings happened in New Zealand and Gilroy, California:<\/p>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/K52ik6CvVU0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\nHow did <del>Pravda<\/del> FOX respond? A FOX propagandist tried to put lipstick on their corporate pig by hailing the shooter as \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.mediamatters.org\/fox-friends\/fox-contributor-el-paso-shooter-was-actually-very-prescient-writing-trumps-rhetoric\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">prescient<\/a>\u201c.<\/p>\nSo yeah, violent culture war fantasies matter. And precisely the reason Sorbo\u2019s latest piece of crap matters is that it does exactly the same thing The Hunt<\/em> does with this crucial difference: The death toll in the real world from Antifa (the villains in this film) is exactly zero. Leftist violence in this country is virtually non-existent. <a href=\"https:\/\/time.com\/5647304\/white-nationalist-terrorism-united-states\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">But between 2009 and 2018, 73% of domestic terror deaths was white, racist, and right wing in origin.<\/a> And that percentage has only gone up in recent years. So the film not only fantasizes about murdering culture war enemies, it does so for an audience that is documentably proven to actually murder culture war enemies<\/em>.<\/p>\n\u201cBut The Hunt<\/em> was about murdering people for sport! This is about a brave man defending his family from Antifa home invasion!\u201d<\/p>\nGet it: There is no such thing as \u201cAntifa home invasion\u201d. Movies are pretend. Precisely the lie the film tells is that Antifa are fair game for the real right wing hunter to go out and kill because of the terrible thing those pretend bad guys did in a movie.<\/p>\nThe fantasy scenario is a huge and vital part of the Gun Cultist\u2019s mental world. The gunfight against Dawn of the Dead<\/em> Damn Libruls invading the home to take away all the guns (complete with gory head shots) is an essential component to the massively narcissistic fantasy life of the Gun Cultist. It is what fueled the NRA-supported Sandy Hook Conspiracy theorists who have made life a living hell for the parents of the children butchered in Newtown. (<a href=\"https:\/\/allthatsinteresting.com\/false-flag-conspiracies\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Indeed, the Gun Cult always blames the massacres it enables on \u201cfalse flag operations\u201d by liberals bent on making them look bad so they can Take Our Guns<\/a>.) It is what drove the <a href=\"https:\/\/rationalwiki.org\/wiki\/Jade_Helm_15\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">imbeciles convinced that a routine military exercise was really Obama coming to confiscate their guns<\/a>.<\/p>\nAnd that\u2019s the thing: Because this cult of narcissists loves to imagine that they are brave defenders against FutureHitler, they insist on a fantasy world starring themselves killing imaginary Bad Guys while in the real world, thousands and thousands of human sacrifices die and are tortured psychologically and physically for the rest of their lives by nutty shooters like the kooks in El Paso, Gilroy, and Christchurch so that the narcissist can live in vanity and selfishness.<\/p>\nThe mark of the Gun Cult is that, when confronted with the real world of massacres and 40,000 deaths a year, plus orders of magnitude more people wounded and traumatized, it never ever ever thinks like disciples of Jesus and asks, \u201cWhat can we do to prevent this?\u201d No. Their first, last, and only response is, \u201cScrew you! Don\u2019t touch my gun!\u201d They think of no one and nothing but themselves forever and will do that no matter how many people suffer and die as human sacrifices to their monumental selfishness and narcissism.\u00a0 Because Antifa is coming to invade their home and kill them all in a movie.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Here\u2019s the official synopsis: Alone and vulnerable, the children\u2019s faith and family bonds are pushed to the limit, especially those of the eldest daughter, Sophie (Mollee Gray), who questions the morality of gun ownership but soon learns that in God all things are good, including her family\u2019s Second Amendment right to defend themselves. 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