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* NewspaperDating: Upon landing in the early 2000s; Russell finds a newspaper and learns that he's successfully been transported to "two thousand and..." (as seen in the entry for NextSundayAD below; we don't get an exact year due to a car horn blowing)
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* ScienceIsBad: ZigZagged. Science ''itself'' isn't necessarily seen as bad, and Anderson's TimeMachine apparently works by scientific principles of some sort. But Russell Carlisle is stunned when a teacher takes issue with him preaching Christianity in a secular science classroom: "Scientific support of the Scripture [[AsTheGoodBookSays only means the science is true]]. Because we know that the Scripture already is." The thing is, even well before Russell's own time this would have been correctly seen as a ''theological'' claim with no bearing on UsefulNotes/TheScientificMethod either way. And Russell [[CriticalResearchFailure certainly wouldn't have had to leave the 1800s]] if he wanted to meet any scientists who disbelieved the Bible.
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* ScienceIsBad: ZigZagged. Science ''itself'' isn't necessarily seen as bad, and Anderson's TimeMachine apparently works by scientific principles of some sort. But Russell Carlisle is stunned when a teacher takes issue with him preaching Christianity in a secular science classroom: "Scientific support of the Scripture [[AsTheGoodBookSays only means the science is true]]. Because we know that the Scripture already is." The thing is, even well before Russell's own time this would have been correctly seen as a ''theological'' claim with no bearing on UsefulNotes/TheScientificMethod either way. And Russell [[CriticalResearchFailure certainly wouldn't have had to leave the 1800s]] 1800s if he wanted to meet any scientists who disbelieved the Bible.
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* NextSundayADNextSundayAD: The protagonist time travels into the future year of "two thousand([[SoundEffectBleep car horn honks]])."
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* MoralDissonance: This is a film about, among other things, the evil of films and TV in general. Indeed, it's an example of TheMoralSubstitute. It was offered for purchase on televangelist Jack Van Impe's show, as are similar low-budget faith-based films. They're sold to viewers through mail order, screened for church groups, and/or aired on channels like Trinity Broadcasting Network rather than given wide theatrical release.
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* HardTruthAesop: Russell's original manuscript was actually rather progressive ([[TheFundamentalist for him]]), as it advocated being a good person and doing good deeds because it's the morally right thing to do, rather than doing so because of your religious faith. In the end, he's convinced by the "evil" future where people actually follow this and have become more non-religious as a result, that you can ''only'' be a good person if you accept Christianity.
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* AnachronismStew: Unless the main character was so cloistered that he [[CultureBlind didn't know anything]] about his own society, (which is implied to be the case), his comments about the ubiquitousness of prostitution or the starving children on every street corner in the future ring false, since in his time they were ''worse''.
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* AnachronismStew: Unless the main character was so cloistered that he [[CultureBlind didn't know anything]] about his own society, society (which is implied to be the case), his comments about the ubiquitousness of prostitution or the starving children on every street corner in the future ring false, since in his time they were ''worse''.
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* JerkassHasAPoint: Russell complains to a store manager that a display of skimpily-dressed mannequins might tempt young people to lustful thoughts. The manager curtly replies that Russell is the only person who has ever complained. We're presumably meant to take away that society has become callous to indecency. But from the manager's viewpoint, it's a pretty solid argument that the display is not really offensive if nobody has in fact been offended.
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* JerkassHasAPoint: Russell complains to a store manager that a display of skimpily-dressed mannequins might tempt young people to lustful thoughts. The manager curtly replies that Russell is [[NobodyEverComplainedBefore the only person who has ever complained.complained]]. We're presumably meant to take away that society has become callous to indecency. But from the manager's viewpoint, it's a pretty solid argument that the display is not really offensive if nobody has in fact been offended.
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* NobodyEverComplainedBefore: Russell gets this response from a store manager when complaining about a display of skimpily-dressed mannequins.
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* PoorMansPorn: Russell complains to a clothing store manager that a mannequin dressed in lingerie will "arouse impurity" among the customers. (We don't actually see the offending display, but the store looks a lot more like Sears than Victoria's Secret.)
* PoorMansPorn: Russell complains to a clothing store manager that a mannequin dressed in lingerie will "arouse impurity" among the customers. (We don't actually see the offending display, but the store looks a lot more like Sears than Victoria's Secret.)
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* ScienceIsBad: ZigZagged. Science ''itself'' isn't necessarily seen as bad, and Anderson's TimeMachine apparently works by scientific principles of some sort. But Russell Carlisle is stunned when a teacher takes issue with him preaching Christianity in a secular science classroom: "Scientific support of the Scripture [[AsTheGoodBookSays only means the science is true]]. Because we know that the Scripture already is." The thing is, even well before Russell's own time this would have been correctly seen as a ''theological'' claim with no bearing on UsefulNotes/TheScientificMethod either way. And Russell [[CriticalResearchFailure certainly wouldn't have had to leave the 1800s]] if he wanted to meet any scientists who disbelieved the Bible.
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* MoralGuardians: In what's likely a rare example, our protagonist is one. Russell is dismayed to find that his attempts at enforcing morality in the 2000s merely make him come across as an out-of-touch prude, since not everyone accepts the Christian religious perspective for morality.
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* MoralGuardians: In what's likely a rare example, our protagonist is one. Russell is dismayed to find that his attempts at enforcing morality in the 2000s merely make him come across as an out-of-touch prude, since not everyone accepts the Fundamentalist Christian religious perspective for morality.
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* ItsAWonderfulPlot: Russell Carlisle gets to see what the future would be like if he publishes his book: It's exactly like our time, which [[TheFutureIsShocking he finds horrifying]]. As a result, he decides to re-edit his book and not publish it after all. ....[[Mst3KMantra We should probably not overthink that]].
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* TemporalMutability: Upon seeing how immoral the future would be if he publishes his forthcoming book, Russell Carlisle decides to revise his manuscript to prevent this future from taking place, becoming the titular "Time Changer." Given that the future he saw is more or less exactly like our present day, though, it may not be been sufficiently explored how he could have succeeded.
