There is a concerted effort in media to depict Christianity in its darkest light. To paint the church as a cruel Inquisition and Witches as heroines like in Salem series. In most media Christians are very one dimensional bigots or idiots seen as delusional like in The Fault in Our Stars or Easy A. The Christian films by Dove and Pureflix do not really help in making a rebuttal to caricatures of Christians, foe most of their characters are wooden and plagued by low budgets. The Chosen remains the sole exception in the sea of ridicule of Christianity, and it is getting rocky with backlash itself. The trope that Christians are dopes, and the church us repressive ans out of touch us peddled in most films and shows, even though the same is not done to Jews, Buddhists, Hindus, New Ageists, Neo Pagans, Occult, and etc; in contrast there is new Holocaust movie, films peddling New Age, and Pagan beliefs. What us ironic is claiming Christians are dumb and repressive is contrary to real
In Cobra Kai Season 3, Episode 3 I forgot to mention in my earlier review a very important scene in which Johnny visit a Pastor friend and fellow former Cobra Kai Student. The Pastor takes down a grieving Johnny in the church service and then talks to him. In their exchange Johnny talks about he did the right thing, changed Cobra Kai to be good and all his students got hurt rather than things getting better. The Pastor then offers a line that is so important to remember, “You don’t do the right thing because it always works out, you do the right thing because its the right thing to do.” We are conditioned to think of if we do the right thing everything will get better, and we will float on a cloud of victory. The truth is usually the opposite, doing the right thing can cost you, financially, personally, and in other ways. Richard Wurmbrandt did the right thing and became tortured for Christ, Diedrich Bonhoffer did the right thing and was executed for fighting the Third Reich, and a