God's Not Dead 2

At the risk of prejudging the film (goddamm hated the original... a "Christian Whiplash" that made even less sense than Whiplash)... God's Not Dead 2 is coming out on the first... and apparently it's about a public school teacher who answered a student's question about historical non-violence by mentioning Jesus and quoting scripture and apparently that gets her into legal trouble?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d28yXjWJ4hQ

Can something like this ACTUALLY happen? The original was silly enough but I just wanna ask anyone who's more legally minded than me if this is something that's plausible.

edited 26th Mar '16 6:13:39 PM by Lizardfolk

Not in America. Have you seen the backlash that happens whenever schools attempt to do something that involves silencing a Christian?

And I'm speaking as a Christian myself.

edited 26th Mar '16 6:22:01 PM by theLibrarian

We already have been discussing it a lot in the original's thread so idk if another thread is needed.

Basically, no, this would never happen. Since the kid brought up the discussion and the teacher answered her question, the teacher isn't technically preaching her beliefs or anything. And I doubt any teenager would care enough to INSTANTLY text their parents over it in the middle of class.

Nor would her teaching credentials be revoked. More than likely she'd just get a slap on the wrist, told to discuss it with the student one on one outside of class instead, and that'd be that.

Its a propaganda film. Nothing more.

Indeed. We actually discussed how a lot of Christian films focus more on preaching than being good in the old GND thread, as well.

Despite what people in the US these days think, Christians are not being persecuted. Instead we're being called to exhibit simple human decency to everyone, which a lot of people don't like.

It's usually outside the West and South America that Christians are being persecuted, anyway (e.g. China).

Yeah, if you want to tell a story about persecution, discrimination, religion and its place in society, et cetera, that's fine, but maybe don't pull the "White American Protestants are the real victims" card?

Or, as stated earlier, just make a good movie.

Ben-Hur was a Christian movie and it was epic.

Or make it one where their 'persecution ' is at leat sort of believable.

edited 27th Mar '16 9:06:16 PM by thatindiantroper

For example, a good Christian movie released just this year: Risen.

Noticeably it picks the Christianity's darkest hour - back when Christianity was nothing but a random cult the Roman Empire sought to crush.

edited 27th Mar '16 9:14:47 PM by Gaon

Kingdom Of Heaven is also a pretty good Christian movie. Surrounded by corruption wrapped in religion while attempting to hold on to your own faith and honor.

Yeah, this movie isn about christianity as whole, is about christianity as an "American" value and the stress they have about that being "Taken away" from them.

More than 70 Christian kids have been slaughtered in Pakistan by the Taliban just yesterday, but yeah sure the real victims are the white middle class Americans who hear rude things at college. Of course, the targeted audience wouldn't watch a movie about brown kids being persecuted.

We got a shopkeeper stabbed not far away from me over the weekend for wishing his customers peace and a happy Easter. Both folks involved were Muslim. Christians have no monopoly on crazy fuckers.

Indeed.

The thing that kicks off the plot is also bad. I highly doubt some punk would care about what a teacher talked about in class.

Here we go again

And I doubt he'd care enough to tell his parents even if he did.

On top of that, I doubt ANY teenager would care enough to text their parents 5 SECONDS AFTER SHE SAID IT. Jeeze. Trigger finger much?

Gods Not Dead 2: Gene Ray Strikes Back.

I wonder how they are going to offend Muslims this time

There better be another fat guy getting stuck in his seat. That was the best moment of the first film.

No the best moment was the horrible rain effect

This movie is coming out on April Fool's day. I feel like we're looking at a pretty hefty example of Poe's Law here.

This entire movie is actually an April Fools prank

The makers of this trash aren't that self-aware, and they've already made their money back from the same kind of churches that made their congregations watch the last lot of trash.

God's Not Dead 2: Crucify THIS.

I wonder if it can be considered ironic casting that 1. Sabrina The Teenage Witch is playing a persecuted Christian and 2. Ray Wise - who's played an actual Satan, albeit a comedic one - is playing the mean lawyer.

edited 29th Mar '16 5:41:35 PM by Sisi