I didn't see the "anti gay" episode of Way of the Master but I did see many episodes of Way of the Master in which he debunks evolution and defends God's historical account of creation which I think is the primary reason why darwinists hate him. I expect that Kirk wants to convert "gays" to live righteously though, so that wouldn't be "anti gay" since he is trying to help them.
Ray Comfort actually made a free movie about that subject. You can watch it here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tbPu2rtmDbY
he makes Christianity look awful
Christianity opposes evil, therefore it will always look awful
to evil people because they want to keep sinning and pretending as if their sins are fine. The last thing in the world that they want to do is to be told that their sins are evil and that need to stop being evil. So, they hate Christianity for that reason. That's exactly why they murdered Jesus Christ. And that's also exactly why Jesus guaranteed that the world would hate anyone and everyone who follows in His foot steps.
If people didn't hate Kirk, then that would be a sure sign that he was doing his job as a Christian
wrong (or just not doing his job at all, which is a sub-type of doing it wrong).
"Science creates fictions to explain facts" – Gilman
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FridayOnElmStreet
8 years ago
I looked into Ray Comfort. Very few people like him. He wrote a book trying to get cancer patents to stop treatment and backed up Josh Duggar when he molested his sisters. Ray Comfort is a bigoted con man.
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woodruffw
8 years ago
I have to disagree with you, Navaros.
I'm a believing Christian. I certainly don't "hate" Kirk Cameron. I've only ever seen two of his movies, this one and Fireproof, and I've watched a few YouTube clips. I don't always agree with his views, but I'm rarely bothered by them.
But Saving Christmas has a fundamentally terrible message, and I am shocked that it doesn't bother you as a Christian.
This defense of materialism, selfishness, and greed in the guise of celebrating Christ is incredibly troubling. It's not that gift-giving and parties are wrong, but Cameron uses this film to promote the notion that anything can be justified as long as you claim to worship Christ thru whatever it is you're doing. I'm sorry, but that cannot be biblically supported.
The line in the movie that left me completely gobsmacked was when Christian points toward the party and asks Kirk how many kids could have been fed, or how many wells could have been dug with the money spent on the shindig. Kirk responds "You've got it all wrong." But that's all he says. He doesn't give any insight as to how Christian is wrong. But, of course, he can't. Of course charity is preferable to a lavish party. Yet Kirk is willing to perform these mental gymnastics to convince himself, and anyone who will listen, that everything he likes is completely justified because he can connect the dots back to scripture, no matter how tortured his logic really is.
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Navaros
7 years ago
woodruffw, you are not wrong, and I don't disagree with any of the things you said.
I probably should have included the kinds of things that you've said in my criticisms too.
I guess the criticisms I've mentioned previously stuck out to me more because the title of the film is "Saving Christmas," yet the content of the film actually has nothing to do with Saving Christmas. To me that feels like a "bait & switch" scam.
And also I am disappointed in Kirk for not boldly defending Christmas in this film, such as by condemning retailers and institutions that try to secularize it and calling for boycotts.
And I'm even more disappointed in Kirk because the message of this film actually does the opposite of Saving Christmas: it glorifies and defends the secularization of Christmas!
None of that is to take away from the validity of your point that it also glorifies materialism.
"Science creates fictions to explain facts" – Gilman
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mcornett
7 years ago
G. K. Chesterton once wrote that just about anything can be justified by the Bible; it just depends on your mindset and what parts you read. That's not to bash Christianity, but our human tendency to justify things. It's obvious Cameron looks at his faith and says to himself, "How can I use my faith to justify the things I do?"
What Cameron needs to do is look at his faith and say to himself, "How can I use what I do to justify my faith?"
"Value your education. It's something nobody can ever take away from you." My mom.
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