When Secular Reporters Watch Religious Movies
The Easter season can remind people of classic Hollywood movies with religious themes. Every year, ABC still airs “The Ten Commandments.” People might break out “The Passion of the Christ” from 2004, or head to the theater to see “The King of Kings” or “The Chosen: Last Supper,” building on that streaming TV series on the life and ministry of Jesus.
But taxpayer-funded National Public Radio is inevitably going to come at the subject from a secular perspective. On Palm Sunday, their badly named newscast “All Things Considered” included a conversation among three NPR journalists about their “favorite (and not so favorite) religious films.”
The segment ended with the NPR reporters lauding the recent movie “Conclave,” which indulged a libertine-left fantasy by having the Catholic Church........
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