Monday, August 26, 2013

Christian Porn

Christian porn?  Is there such a thing?  In a way yes, there is.  At least it is porn labeled as "Christian".  What on earth do I mean?  There is porn that is sanctioned by many churches and Christians, but before I go on, I want to warn you this will be a bit of a rant.  Why is it okay for a Christian film to depict Adam and Eve before the fall, nearly naked?  Why?  They were naked, before they sinned.  Afterward God covered them did he not?  Hey they even tried to cover themselves right?  Everybody knows they were naked, why do we need to show it?  God covered them that is a pretty direct statement that the human body should be covered I think.  Christians often say it is sin to look at porn, even so called "soft porn", but apparently when it is in Christian film and pictures it is okay?  What is wrong here?  Our movies are full of this "christian porn".  Take Soul Surfer for example to name one.  I have not seen this movie, but I have seen some pictures from it and....  the women are not wearing much more than underwear and the cameras are placed at angles that accentuate the immodesty.  There are others, too, where the dress standard is not too terrible, but the cameras are stuck at angles they should never be at.  Just look at the pictures.  Unfortunately, I have seen some porn, and it makes me angry when I see Christians copying it.  Take camera poses for another example, I have seen many Christians pose in ways that the porn stars do.  Yes just like them, folks those are not just "cool" ways to pose.  The porn industry uses them for a reason.  They have a product to sell, and they don't waste their time on stuff that doesn't work.
Okay, one last area.  Art.  Seems in art anything goes as long as it is painted, sculpted or drawn we can show anything right?  Classic art, it is just statues and paintings of naked people.  Face it folks it is porn.  Think of the famous statue of David.  How about the famous picture of Adam and God?  What about the various pictures and sculptures of other Bible characters or stories?  A lot of those pictures the people are either naked or, may as well be.  I once read a secular article on art, they lauded some of the "Christian" artists of the classical era for their "sensual" treatment of the human body.
Summery: I bring this subject up for several reasons, for one I am sick and tired of having to avert my eyes during Christian movies, I have seen secular films with much higher dress standards than a whole lot of Christian films. There are soo many Christian films that are excellent in message but I cannot ever show them to a non believer because what would he get out of it with the distraction of mixing sex in it, and what does it say about me?  I tell him that lust is adultery, then throw the temptation to lust right before him?  Next, as Christians we hold a double standard, it is disgusting, we say looking at porn is sin, then we turn around allow it in certain "christian" forms.  The non-believers love this, it is awesome ammo for them to throw at us.  Please think on this my friends 

4 comments:

Heluvsme said...

I hear you, brother. I use Dove.org to check out movies before we view them. They are pretty good at listing if there is objectionable material~the only drawback is that someone (the movie reviewer) still had to see it. It's amazing how many "Christian" movies we've had to decline watching due to objectionable material.

We should make some kind of list of "safe" Christian films as a resource! Some that we own:

Come What May
Heartstrings
Pendragon

Which are all incidentally made by homeschooling families lol

Unknown said...

Very good post! Thank you for sharing your thoughts... I have seen that soul surfer movie lauded by way to many Christians... My family hasn't seen it either..& we don't intend to. Thank you for just plainly telling the truth! :)

Sir Joshua David said...

Thank you for speaking out on this subject, I totally agree! I did see the movie Soul Surfer and was very disappointing that they ruined it with the immodest dress. It was recommended by Christians and unfortunately I didn't check the Christian reviews before watching it (I usually do). The movie also has some pagan spiritual aspects saying that a good surfer is able to wait in the water and "feel" when a good wave is going to come. Anyways I will not be watching it again and can not recommend it to others to watch. I honestly don't really believe it was made by true Christians but rather by people that wanted it to appeal to both the Christian and non-christian audience. The only way I could recommend some movies like this is if a person had a filter on their TV that could block this stuff.

Kelsianne said...

Very true. Good thoughts.

Kelsey