What an absolute sack of horseshit. You may be asking "Brendan, why did you watch this?" It's because I'm morbidly curious and I'm a sucker for bad movies and analyzing conservative media. Both of which this film falls under. It's probably a surprise to no one that God's Not Dead 5 ie a poorly made piece of propaganda. It's blatantly in favor of Christian nationalism while trying to present itself as being fair and unbiased. It's not a coincidence that this released just a few months before the presidential election. The movie makes multiple references to the fact that not enough Christians vote. And yes, while the film never explicitly states "Vote for Republicans" it does anything but. Trying to frame our lead character has being driven by divine intervention and that divine intervention just so happens to be in favor of most republican policies is just straight up evil. The Bible is not a political piece of text. End of story. I'm an advocate for religious freedom, by all means. I think most people are. But this films idea of religious freedom is that public places such as public schools and community outreach programs should be preaching Christianity. Ignoring the fact that America's ideals stem from the idea that this country is a melting pot that does not have one state defined religion. They frame the people who oppose the lead character as people who want God dead, and want to see religion die out is misleading at best and fucking despicably deceptive at worst. Christianity shouldn't be in public schools not because people hate Jesus, but because not everyone believes in Jesus and that's what makes our country great. We don't have a state religion and that's fantastic. That's what freedom is.
Genuienly, fuck this movie. Fuck this movies worldview. It's the worst of 2024. It has all the bad movie hallmarks you would expect from a movie titled God's Not Drad 5: In God We Trust, but what sets it apart from other films such as Madame Web, Miller's Girl, Borderlands, Megamind vs The Doom Syndicate, and even Reagan is that the worldview this film presents as the truth is deeply hateful and full of spite towards anyone who's not Christian.
What an absolute sack of horseshit. You may be asking "Brendan, why did you watch this?" It's because I'm morbidly curious and I'm a sucker for bad movies and analyzing conservative media. Both of which this film falls under. It's probably a surprise to no one that God's Not Dead 5 ie a poorly made piece of propaganda. It's blatantly in favor of Christian nationalism while trying to present itself as being fair and unbiased. It's not a coincidence that this released just a few months before the presidential election. The movie makes multiple references to the fact that not enough Christians vote. And yes, while the film never explicitly states "Vote for Republicans" it does anything but. Trying to frame our lead character has being driven by divine intervention and that divine intervention just so happens to be in favor of most republican policies is just straight up evil. The Bible is not a political piece of text. End of story. I'm an advocate for religious freedom, by all means. I think most people are. But this films idea of religious freedom is that public places such as public schools and community outreach programs should be preaching Christianity. Ignoring the fact that America's ideals stem from the idea that this country is a melting pot that does not have one state defined religion. They frame the people who oppose the lead character as people who want God dead, and want to see religion die out is misleading at best and fucking despicably deceptive at worst. Christianity shouldn't be in public schools not because people hate Jesus, but because not everyone believes in Jesus and that's what makes our country great. We don't have a state religion and that's fantastic. That's what freedom is.
Genuienly, fuck this movie. Fuck this movies worldview. It's the worst of 2024. It has all the bad movie hallmarks you would expect from a movie titled God's Not Drad 5: In God We Trust, but what sets it apart from other films such as Madame Web, Miller's Girl, Borderlands, Megamind vs The Doom Syndicate, and even Reagan is that the worldview this film presents as the truth is deeply hateful and full of spite towards anyone who's not Christian.
