Interesting hoedown going on about the revelation that the star of End of the Spear, Chad Allen, is a well-known homosexual activist. I'm not sure I care. After all, if a homosexual activist was comfortable with the script, you can bet this movie isn't exactly about thundering the word. Not only that, but I recently watched Beyond the Gates of Splendor, which was made by the same company and is the same story told as a documentary, and I'm pretty sure they managed to never actually mention Jesus Christ. I'd need to re-watch it to make sure. At any rate, the thrust of the movie was that the purpose of the missionaries was to bring the Aucas the good news: that is, the good news that God didn't want them to spear each other.
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You are correct. No mention of Jesus whatsoever in "Beyond the Gates of Splendor". Unless one knows what a missionary is, one would suppose they were social workers. The anthropologists interviewed to explain what happened among the Auca explained that they changed a 5-generation pattern of homicidal vendetta by information from the outside world about other possible ways of regulating themselves.
ReplyDeleteFor someone interested in Christian missions and moderately knowledgeable about the incident, watching this movie was sad and sometimes excruciating.
Thanks for the confirmation. It was pretty lame that they did that. Christianity without Christ is stupid.
ReplyDeleteI was named after Nate Saint, so I feel unmerited warrant to shoot my mouth off about this.
ReplyDeleteThe whole thing is such a nonissue. I don't really care if a homosexual played him. Why should I? If I cared about unregenerate people playing Christians in movies, I wouldn't go to see movies. O wait, I don't anyway.
Read Al Mohler's essay about it. O wait, I also don't know how to hyperlink either.