Monday, 2 June 2025

Make a CHRISTIAN movie: they’re HOT

"A Christian Movie" by Flux, Veo 2, Suno and Eki.

Chockablock with copyright-free plots, characters - good guys and bad guys, saints and sinners, the bible is a mother-lode for Christian movie makers. Viewer potential is huge: 2.2bn Christians.  A Christian boom is in the zeitgeist. Even the highfalutin New Yorker magazine published a piece about Mary Magdalene (traveled with Jesus and witnessed his crucifixion). 

Studies tell us people who have a religion are happier and live on average three years longer. Catholics’ gobble up 50% of the 2.2bn. The other 50% are all sorts of ideologies. At a mega-church in Colorado, the preacher appeared in a Hawaiian shirt and belted out, ‘Jesus is the big Kahuna.’  

Pitched an idea to Eki for a 30 second Christian video. He balked. Said it would appeal to far right wing bigots. I changed the location from a run-down town in Texas to 5th avenue New York. He still didn’t bite. But said he’d come up with something. EKI! Can’t wait to see ’SOMETHING.’ 

Sources: NewYork Times, Economist, Wikipedia, internet, New Yorker magazine,  personal experience

Next week:  Daylight saving time: BAH HUMBIG!

Make a CHRISTIAN movie: they’re HOT


Note: Okay, some unpacking to do. We have never done anything because of market research, and we will certainly not start now. Second, neither of us are people of faith, so it would be dishonest to do an actual Christian movie, and being dishonest is not something we will start now either. Third, as said, it would not only be dishonest, it would implicitly support what is in my opinion a dangerous worldview.

I do not mean just MAGA, I mean faith.

Yes, faith is dangerous. I would go as far as to say faith is a cancer of the modern society.

"Why so?" one might ask - well, I will tell you why. Encouraging faith is encouraging gut feeling instead of knowledge. Glorifying unsubstantiated beliefs into something noble and more important than a trust in the observable truths. I, for one, am unwilling to contribute to that.

Trust is a belief held because of evidence. Faith is a belief held despite it.

So, i made "something".

CU
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Eki

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