January 2006. Decision time for the media.

January 2006 at the box-office…Other worldviews haven’t displayed power over Hollywood like Christianity has.

In January of 2006, the third faith-based lightning-in-a-bottle movie within a span of a few years spent its 4th, 5th, and 6th weekends grossing at least $10 million at the box-office. In the previous month (December of 2005), the first Chronicles Of Narnia movie had its first three weekends grossing well beyond the $10 million mark. The earlier faith-based movies Signs and The Passion Of The Christ had spent 5 weekends and 7 weekends grossing at least $10 million. The three movies had four of those 18 combined weekends grossing at least $50 million.

In short, those three faith-based movies that point to Christianity surpassed the success of other notable movie trilogies of that time era with those 18 weekends, thanks to excellent word-of-mouth. The other notable movie series included the popular Oscar-winning Lord Of The Rings trilogy (15 weekends), the Star Wars prequels (15 weekends), and even the first FOUR Harry Potter films (17 weekends).

Hinduism, Buddhism, the Muslim religion, the atheist worldview, the agnostic worldview, nor any other worldview...none of those worldviews can make such a claim.

However, the media chose not to cover the story that month, (nor did they ever). Instead, they buried this most relevant information and chose to go to bat for a movie that was offensive to the Christian religion and to other religions as well. A movie that was a Best Picture favorite going into Oscar night and would become the lowest ticket-selling Best Picture favorite in 18 years since 1987, as it struck out when it was finally released in a wide number of theaters nation-wide. It never grossed $10 million in any one weekend. Its domestic total gross was a mere fraction of that first The Chronicles Of Narnia movie.
 
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Lightning in a Bottle was a documentary on BB King, Narnia was a children's movie about a fictional realm with animals. None of those were about Christianity
Or had Christian traits. The fact you seem to imply good vs evil is only a Christian trait, speaks volumes about you.

The Passion of Christ was a great film but also brought about much anti semetism and later was shown that Mel Gibson himself is racist and anti semetic.

As for World views, what do you even mean by that? The largest religious following globally is Islam.

What movie are you claiming was offensive to Christians, because I'm a Christian but I do not deny the history that acts of evil were committed in the name of Chrisitanity, because I don't deny reality and do not get offended easily. What I am offended by is the problem within the church involving the exploitation and abuse inflicted on children that seems to be ignored every day.
 
Well, I suppose it could be two different topics, whether it be about competing worldviews or it could be about the media's decision in January 2006 to deflect from the truth and instead push their own agenda.
 
How in the world is my topic about taxing television to help pay down the national debt not a debating topic? Makes no sense. Makes no sense as to why it was moved away from the debate forum to the general forum.
 
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