Two from Stan

Stan sent me a couple interesting links.

It appears that some Christian movie reviewers aren't really happy with the new Lone Ranger. Apparently they are not alone, most everybody I know that has seen the film has panned it or just said it was okay. Not a big Johnny Depp fan myself, hated the Pirates thing and he butchered Willy Wonka. Just ask Gene Wilder. But this is different, Tonto, is (gasp) a pagan!

Here is Stan's link:

Christian's angry that Tonto is pagan in Lone Ranger film.

"The new "Lone Ranger" film has been a critical and box office disappointment, but the fact that the Indian character "Tonto" is not a Christian has upset some Christian conservatives.
Ted Baehr of the Christian Film and Television Coalition is also upset that the U.S. government is portrayed as "bad" and the army is shown killing Indians, which is historically accurate.
"The government is bad – the army is killing Indians – the bad guy is a businessman, the military-industrial complex is bad,"complained Baehr in his review on Movieguide. "The pagan elements triumph because you're looking at it from Tanto's [sic] point of view. It's not Buddhism, it's not Hinduism, it's a mishmash."
Focus on the Family's movie review site, Pluggedin.com, also slammed Tonto for not being a Christian.

I read both backlinks and it didn't seem that the reviewers were that strident or out of line. Case of conflicting world views, if you want to be outraged, be outraged. I personally would expect native americans in the 1800's to be christians about the same way I would expect martians coming out of their spaceships to be christians but hey, who asked me?
Here is the blurb from Plugged In:

PaPa, PCPC, FRFR, ACapACap, APAP, B, CC, Ab, LL, VV, N, AA, D, M) Strong mixed pagan, revisionist, politically correct worldview, with allusions to “spirits” who have power to influence events, anti-capitalist elements, anti-patriotic elements and themes, some moral elements, some overt Christian elements where Christians pray and sing, a man says we are “under God,” woman asks main character to pray with her and main character says John Locke’s book is “his Bible,” and a moving prayer is said but by the villain, so the Christian elements are tinged with some irony; 19 light obscenities, four profanities, man urinating, defecation by a horse, man dragged through horse defecation, and man vomiting; extensive action violence where people are killed by guns, pierced by arrows, stabbed with swords and knives, and blown up in man made explosions, it’s implied a man cuts out heart of another man and eats it, and animals are cannibals; upper male nudity; alcohol use and drunkenness; smoking; and, greed, cheating, corruption, moral relativism.

I find it a little funny that both sites have a guy in charge of counting "hells and damns." And that they point out anti capitalist elements in the movie. Upper male nudity? Tell me that whoever noticed that is not a closet case. And where exactly does it mention capitalism in the bible again?

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Westboro Baptist to picket Arizona firefighter's memorials.  I am a bit surprised somebody hasn't taken these bastards out.