{"id":4710,"date":"2014-02-18T14:57:24","date_gmt":"2014-02-18T20:57:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/tinseltalk\/?p=4710"},"modified":"2014-02-18T15:01:37","modified_gmt":"2014-02-18T21:01:37","slug":"duck-dynasty-christian-marketing-and-noah-christians-should-be-better","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/tinseltalk\/2014\/02\/duck-dynasty-christian-marketing-and-noah-christians-should-be-better\/","title":{"rendered":"Christian Response to Aronofsky’s ‘Noah:’ Downright Embarrassing"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

\"\"<\/a>I have not seen Darren Aronofsky\u2019s Biblically-themed epic Noah.<\/p>\n

You have not seen Noah.<\/p>\n

No one has seen Noah, except perhaps Aronofsky himself. It\u2019s not finished yet. (Although an early version was shown to test audiences, yes.)<\/p>\n

Yet, the self-appointed forces of Biblical Orthodoxy are coming out against it.<\/p>\n

Just because, you know\u2026.Bible.<\/p>\n

As Peter Chattaway posted,\u00a0<\/a>the same PR firm that campaigned for Duck Dynasty during the recent Culture War moment is now riling the faithful up against Aronofsky\u2019s Noah, a MOVIE NO ONE HAS SEEN.<\/p>\n

They use this shockingly, horrifyingly, embarrassingly leading question:<\/p>\n

\u201cAs a Faith Driven Consumer, are you satisfied with a Biblically themed movie \u2013 designed to appeal to you \u2013 which replaces the Bible\u2019s core message with one created by Hollywood?\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

When the respondent inevitably answers \u201cno,\u201d the poll result is taken as a hit against the film WHICH NO ONE HAS SEEN.<\/p>\n

No wonder Hollywood wants to steer clear of faith audiences. With crazy stunts like this, who can blame them?<\/p>\n

It\u2019s just embarrassing. The movie may be good, it may be bad, it most likely is a mix.<\/p>\n

It may challenge our cute, fuzzy understanding of the story. It may even challenge our faith.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s what art is supposed to do.<\/p>\n

And, let me tell you, \u201cFaith Driven Consumers,\u201d if you associate the story of Noah with adorable animals smiling under a sunny rainbow, you\u2019re reading the story wrong. It\u2019s the story of one man, one single man, chosen with his wife and descendants, to survive a mass extinction. It\u2019s dark, horrible judgement and a story with which believers should wrestle.<\/p>\n

Not one they should put up on a nursery wall.<\/p>\n

If you\u2019re ok with a simplistic, two-sentence explanation of the Noah story, you\u2019re hiding from the deeper, darker, richer, and ultimately life-giving aspects of the Bible.<\/p>\n

But whether the story follows our unchallenged idea of what \u201cBiblically accurate\u201d is, whether it actually goes against the Christian faith (Aronofsky is Jewish, and they had the story first), or whether it is exactly what you\u2019ve always imagined\u2026..<\/p>\n

We just don\u2019t know.<\/p>\n

So stop fighting against something we don\u2019t know about yet.<\/p>\n

Please.<\/p>\n

You\u2019re embarrassing me as a Christian believer.<\/p>\n

If you want to know more about the Noah movie, we\u2019ve been covering it extensively.<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

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