This docu-movie is the latest entry into the ugly movement of loud, self-aggrandising American evangelicalism.
As anyone with a passing awareness of the history of this culture will understand, it is far removed from a scriptural reflection of Christianity. Instead, it places culture ahead of fellowship, church doctrine ahead of holiness, and shouty pseudo-celebrity preachers ahead of Jesus.
Predictably, this project seeks to be an experience for the viewer rather than simply a watch. It tediously but methodically ticks the boxes that have come to define this brand of church, cherry picking bible passages in an attempt to justify cheap, feel-good heresy. Most notably, demonic possession is the tool by which it dabbles in spiritual woo strategies to frighten but assure the more malleable viewer.
One leaves something like this with pity for those who will inevitably be caught up in this kind of abject nonsense. Spirituality for the hard of thinking.
As anyone with a passing awareness of the history of this culture will understand, it is far removed from a scriptural reflection of Christianity. Instead, it places culture ahead of fellowship, church doctrine ahead of holiness, and shouty pseudo-celebrity preachers ahead of Jesus.
Predictably, this project seeks to be an experience for the viewer rather than simply a watch. It tediously but methodically ticks the boxes that have come to define this brand of church, cherry picking bible passages in an attempt to justify cheap, feel-good heresy. Most notably, demonic possession is the tool by which it dabbles in spiritual woo strategies to frighten but assure the more malleable viewer.
One leaves something like this with pity for those who will inevitably be caught up in this kind of abject nonsense. Spirituality for the hard of thinking.