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DrHuk&Duck said:
I grew up in a church that still held on to this ridiculous “movie theater ban,” but the reality is that by the 90s, pretty much everyone there went to the movies other than the church pastoral staff and a select handful of members with service positions (deacons, Sunday school teachers, etc). Since my dad occasionally rotated as a deacon and my mom occasionally rotated as a Sunday school teacher, the silly ban affected me.

I think most people under 30 would laugh at the thought of going to a movie theater. That’s considered an “old people place.” Preachers should just focus on what people watch, not where they watch it. Young people stream everything nowadays—movies, TV, etc. (There’s a reason theaters are closing all over the country.) I probably go to a theater once per year. It’s too expensive, the food sucks, and they are usually ghost towns filled with a few gray heads.
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Back when pastors first started preaching against the cinema, they could show things and say things that could not be done on TV at home. The things played in the movies back then would not even make us flinch today but at the time they were on the edge.
 
Most memories I have of my childhood church are favorable, but three I always disliked concerned movies, music and Halloween.

Movies - we could watch the same movie on a DVD at home but not in a theater.

Halloween - we participated by buying and handing out candy to kids trick or treating, but we weren’t allowed to get candy by trick or treating.

Music - ahhh…don’t even get me started with the double standards and “African drum beat” theories….
 
DrHuk&Duck said:
I also recall our church occasionally having a “movie day” where we’d watch a Christian movie in the church auditorium or gymnasium, or when church members would wait for a movie to come out on VHS/DVD, and then watch it at a home. Nothing hypocritical here folks…nothing to see…just keep walking and don’t ask questions! 😬
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i wasn;t raised under any of the hyper-fundamentalist restrictions and bans... .and don;t follow any of them either... .. but there was a discussion here a few years ago where i got accused of being a hyper-fundy... ...it was regarding dances being performed in the church service and whether or not they were edifying to Christ.... . the dance being discussed was the hula - which i learned as a teenager in school along with many contemporary dances .. ...i love the hula and do it very well.... but knowing what i do about it;s origins and meanings i objected to it being performed in church.. ... and said i would never sit in a church service where that was being done..... same with most ccm ...church should be about worshipping God and learning how to go out into the world and serve Him better.... . not about being entertained... ..there is a time and a place for entertainment... . and that;s not the church sanctuary...
 
We just took our junior church kids to the cinema to see...


I highly recommend it 😊.
 
Ekklesian said:
They stretched that story into a feature length film?
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Yeah, why does that seem a stretch?


The author of the book that the movie was adapted from, Barbara Robinson, was from my hometown and attended the same elementary school I went to, so maybe I'm biased 😊
 
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Ekklesian said:
I knew it as only a one-hour play.

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That doesn't mean I don't want to see the film.
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I'm not much into the arts and stuff like that, but, one of my favorite movies is Fiddler On The Roof. I've seen it on the stage three times, and none of those lasted anywhere near the 3hr 21min movie run-time. I'm guessing most live plays fit that reduced time constraint.
 
There is nothing wrong with going to the movies this is where you teach your children what should I watch? Preachers preach against movies but live immorally I never understood that ....
 
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