'V' for 'Vilify': More Anti-Christian Propaganda

While totalitarians of every stripe persecute and kill the devout around the world, Americans make movies alleging the real problem is those troublesome Christians. I understand: a storyteller needs villains the audience will know to be villainous. But are American moviegoers more likely to associate villainy with Christians than with some other group? It's true that Americans know little about the world's persecutors. And we are so ignorant of the full extent of anti-Christian persecution around the world you'd think it wasn't even happening (as did most Americans until last week). But after 9/11, after hundreds of lesser-incidents and cartoon carnage, are we so worried about offending delicate sensibilities (see cartoon incidents), we could not stomach a film in which evil is linked to something other than the Lamb of God? Jesus said, "Blessed are the meek"; Jesus made humility a virtue; Jesus elevated the status of women, minorities, and children; and it was Jesus who "laid down His life for His friends." Does it make sense to link the followers of Jesus, even considering all their failings, to a totalitarian state, when events in Afghanistan just last week make the connection of totalitarianism and another world religion so much more obvious?

"The message of ‘V for Vendetta’ could not be clearer," said Don Feder, president of Jews Against Anti-Christian Defamation. "Those involved in this cinematic hate crime are saying Christians want to establish a totalitarian state and impose their morality with a policeman’s truncheon."

No such Christian dictatorship exists anywhere on earth," Feder noted. "On the other hand, there are no shortage of Islamic theocracies and quasi-theocracies where ‘infidels’ are persecuted, homosexuality is outlawed and women stoned to death for adultery. Why isn’t Hollywood making movies about them? Because it fears reprisals? Christianity is the only religion Hollywood can mock and slander with impunity."

You can read the balance of the comments by this wise Jewish gentleman here. I long-ago linked their website in the column at right: Jews Against Anti-Christian Defamation.