Sheeple are either clueless or ignore altogether hollywood’s liberal view of Christianity and the fundamentals of healthy institutions, i.e. marriage, Christianity, the military. Big surprise, ‘Stone’ in theaters now is no exception.
Dan Gifford on Big Hollywood writes,
“If there’s one thing criminals generally do well, it’s instinctively spot another’s inner demons and then mess with their minds to exploit them. In “Stone” (in theaters now), that street psychologist is the incarcerated arsonist Gerald “Stone” Creeson (Edward Norton) and his prey is Jack Maybrey (Robert De Niro), the prison parole officer who will decide whether Stone gets out early or stays in the bar hotel for his full stretch.”
But while their mind game is going on between characters in front of the camera, there’s another one playing the audience from behind the lens. For the words the actors are saying and the situations they are in have been intentionally scripted by director John Curran and writer Angus MacLachlan to sell their own apparent nihilism, according to Norton at a Q&A I attended.
“John told me we have to do this film now while things are bad,” Norton said. “We have to show that traditional establishments like religion and marriage that people have relied on for truth have failed them.” Curran does that by showing those institutions as hypocrisies that are the refuge of hypocrites like Maybrey, a deeply flawed, nasty man who, in his heart, may be little better than the convicts he judges for early release.
I’m a Christian and guess what, I’m a screw up. Everything in me wants to be selfish, a jerk or whatever. But seriously, anything good in me as a wife or as a mother is because of Him. Christians ARE flawed and imperfect. Are there some hypocrites, sure, but they are not the standard. The Christ of the Bible isn’t just a good person like Ghandi. He is the Son of God, the same God that created you. Liberals excuse themselves form ever being labeled a hypocrite because they don’t want a moral compass of right and wrong. I’m not politically correct, the God of the Bible is real and an adversary is real. In the Bible, there is a right and a wrong, and there is also grace. (Romans 5:20-21 “All that passing laws against sin did was produce more lawbreakers. But sin didn’t, and doesn’t, have a chance in competition with the aggressive forgiveness we call grace. When it’s sin versus grace, grace wins hands down. All sin can do is threaten us with death, and that’s the end of it. Grace, because God is putting everything together again through the Messiah, invites us into life—a life that goes on and on and on, world without end.” ) This is what is so beautiful about the God of the Bible. Me Mireya, I’m flawed I’m messed up, but I keep trying and when I screw up, in Him there is patience, grace and love waiting for me. This is how it is. Not hollywoods perverted definition of a ‘failed institution.’ And to the christian hypocrites who say messed up people shouldn’t be in church, screw em. Messed up people in church are in the right place to not staying screw ups.
