@@BleachBath-fr8ps Yah, but LDS and Catholics but into the GND verse. "We're oppressed, too!" Only the Mormons actually have a case to make (as in, the US did declare war on them).
Absolutely. Religion and state should never be mixed because it automatically sets up a power dynamic in favour of the "ruling" religion, regardless of whatever measures are taken to prevent such a dynamic occuring.
“The government of the U.S. is not, in any sense, founded on the Christian religion.” -John Adams. Just in case you need proof of what the founding fathers wanted there’s this quote and many other although i this is the most blatant one I’ve heard
@@BatAmerica from the perspective of the Religious fascists right it is. Every sensible argument, posed by these propagandas pretending to be movies, is meant to be bad, straw manned and ridiculous to brainwashed religious zealot. The whole "The United States is a Christian nation" lie that is occasionally is pandered only helps enforce the belief 'wall of seperation' is wrong.
Acording to this movie forcing a nation of diverse people to follow a single religious doctorine is good, and exposing corruption is wrong? Honestly how can someone be that delusional?
Agreed. I grew up Catholic, and don't practice anymore. I'm a liberal. My religious parents are actually pretty liberal. The nuns who taught me did organizing for unions, worked for social justice, campaigned for migrants and against the death penalty and eco justice, and hammered "the preferrential option for the poor" into us: that all social policy made, especially by Catholic lawmakers, should take into account the poor FIRST. I have such fond memories of them. I know this isn't everyone's experience, it was mine.
For people who believe in a literal interpretation of the Bible and still go around thinking god is the morally good guy, rooting for this movie's character is pretty tame by comparison
Change the religion in this movie to Islam and I guarantee the people behind this movie would be outraged, but still not understand why a country should have a theocratic government.
When i went to see Transformers One, i saw posters outside for "God's not dead", "Am I Racist?", and "Reagen" Its a pretty standard movie theatre, but a strange coincedence.
I need a Christian dystopian movie trailer to open with- “In a world. (Which God made in Seven Days)” honestly these movies are becoming my Roman Empire.
The weird longing for persecution in these movies borders on kink territory, they SO BADLY want to be persecuted that they fantasize about it and watch this terrible fictional universe while saying "God I wish that were me"
It's worse than you think. For a lot of them, of Christians really are being persecuted, that means the End Times are upon us, which to them means that all the "unbelievers" will burn in hell. They are getting excited at the prospect of torturing all of the people who disagree with them.
If I ever make a parody of these films, I will seriously have a large truck randomly follow the protagonist around, including inside buildings, as if it was a sentient human.
@@reignfire85Every antagonist dies by the tires of Truck-kun-- During the main character's lowest moment, when he's questioning himself and his faith seven movies in, he looks up to see Truck-kun watching him from under a street lamp, as if waiting to finally claim him.
God's Not Dead 6: Origins God's Not Dead 7: Resurrection God's Not Dead 8: Holiday to Hawaii God's Not Dead 9: God vs Jesus Dawn of Justice God's Not Dead 10: God Is Dead
My favorite plot line is how the character who was a dedicated Christian died of cancer but the none Christian reporter simply has it prayed away in 5 seconds
An ad came on your video of some politician ranting and I thought it was footage from the film. Took me about five minutes to realize it wasn't your video.
I would argue that religion should be taken into account when drafting legislation, but, like, in the way where you make sure the Amish can sign paper paperwork instead of electronic paperwork, or making sure Sikhs aren’t forced to remove their turbans for any reason, or making sure there are food safety regulations that include kosher and halal foods so they are also safe. But not like this movie wants.
So happy to hear you talk about this utter mess. It's absolutely bonkers how put upon Christians feel. They're so oppressed, they have to make up scenarios. I live in a hotbed of home schooling, and my state at least is doing everything in their power to assist them. Hands washed.
@@deaddomain It does. I seem to remember a time when Christians professed an allegiance to truth, something about setting one free. But now so many will just greedily and gratefully swallow any lie.
1. God is dead and we killed him (good he doesn't exist, that would suck.) 2. You are giving like a vintage star vanity vibe and I'm diggin it. Stunning.
Why does it have to make such an oblique reference instead of borrowing a page from Mel Brooks, and just calling it _God's Not Dead 5: the Search for More Money_ ?
They didn't get it. GnD 5 did turn a profit, but only barely - and with revenues declining each film, a further GnD film would not merit the investment. Unless there's a wealthy sponsor willing to throw away about two million dollars, it's not going to happen.
An actual line of Dialogue from the film: “You’re making God an easy target for them Pastor”. “God’s not the target. Our country is. Gods just standing in their way”. So…….I KNOW where or should I say….WHO…..this movie got that line from. So, are they really saying……what I think they’re saying….????
@@joearnold6881I loled so hard. 2 angels making it look like he's fine, just always wearing ray-bans while meeting hot angel women on the beach. I need this in my life
It's a little interesting to see the evolution of this franchise in relativity to the first. Not saying the earlier entries were good at all but they at least pretended to be focused on a more personal faith level and while they end with "Accept Jesus and all your problems will disappear." They have become more explicit in "you must assure that the entire nation becomes christian or else everything you love will be gone."
Conservatism, particularly Conservative Christianity, is basically "Everyone is free to do and believe whatever they want, as long as they do and believe exactly what I want them to."
Whats crazy is you uploaded this right as i finished watching the "Im not racist" review about the time you mentioned putting this video together, i remember watching the first movie in class and having my catholic faith fucking crumble because they basically kill a man moments after he repents and it made me realize "holy shit im being propagandized to by psychos"
@@hardsayings2400 because it's a Christian Persecution complex fanfic fever dream. The Christians of this franchise are sanctimonious, holier-than-thou, ignorant, insular, delusional, and condescending. They desire to run an authoritarian theocracy. They act less Christlike and more like the legalistic priests who persecuted Jesus. They're bullies playing victim. Crybullies.
The most depressing thing about this isn't even this travesty of a film, it's being reminded of Ray Wise's portrayal of Satan in the Reaper TV series and its unceremonious cancelation
Ray Wise is the only good thing about these movies, and his charisma basically makes everyone else look like a bag of slop. Plus what he says makes sense, so even though he’s supposed to be eeeeevil, the whole time you’re like, yup, yup, of course. David AR White isn’t the worst actor, but next to Wise he’s like a sad glass of skim milk.
He also played the devil in Reaper, a really fun show that was sadly cancelled after 2 seasons. From the clips I've seen his character in the God's Not Dead films doesn't act all that different. I think film 6 should make it canon they're the same character and bring in the actors who played the gay rebel demon couple as the main protagonists.
I took "So who dropped the ball, because it wasn't god." In a totally different way. I saw it as "Well who's going to fix it, hmm? It wasn't God that took the funding." As in government is corrupt, and humans are inheirently selfish to which I was like: Bro. That was based as FUCK! 😂
If anyone wants a palette cleanser series about Christianity with a much more nuanced and thoughtful point of view, check out Midnight Mass. it’s a “horror” series but it’s really an excellent meditation on the role of religion in society and in individual people’s lives. Great series. The ending gave me chills. It’s quite beautiful. The series is critical of religion, bigotry and moralizing, but also demonstrates the good that can come from faith too.
@@MrSeedi76 yeah Flanagan is an incredible director. Fall of house usher was really good and very different from his other work which is generally more subdued. But something about midnight mass in particular really spoke to me. You can tell flanagan was raised in a religious Catholic household and told some deep trauma from it. He uses horror to explore the human condition, and the real horror comes more from the behavior of people rather than the monsters, demons, whatever. The priest’s performance was electrifying. Everyone in the cast is good but Bev Keane’s smug bigotry and self righteousness and especially father Paul’s sermons are just master classes in acting. The ending is one of my favorites of all time. It ties up the plot and the themes of the story so perfectly. **Minor Spoilers** You spend most of the series thinking Riley is the protagonist, but really the entire town is the protagonist of the story. Haunting and beautiful.
My first time on your channel - commenting for the algorithm and to say you're absolutely gorgeous. I wish I could pull off a pixie cut that well and your makeup is perfection.
Or if people actually took seriously what Jesus said about loving your neighbor and treating others as you would want to be treated. But it's not like most evangelicals seem to ever even have heard of that.
I'd recommend God Awful Movie's review of this movie, very funny. The make the observation that this series (that basically inspired their podcast) perfectly chronicles the religious rights decent into fascism and it's both very funny and very sad
One thing the god awful movies crew focused on, David AR White got divorced between movies. His ex wife is in this movie. The GAM crew joke a lot about how Andrea Logan(Davids ex wife) got the rights to half the movie and forced David to do a lot of silly things to make him look like an idiot. They also laugh at when the movie came out, the movie focused on a debate was released right after the Kamala/Trump debate where the rights darling performed terribly.
These movies are such a trip because they can’t bare to portray themselves losing, *ever* , in any way. But at the same time, need to be persecuted by an all-powerful domineering enemy.
@@deaddomain they like the _aesthetic_ of overcoming adversity. They grasp the good feelings of defeating a foe. But as time has gone on and their prophesied oppression just hasn’t happened, they’ve needed to invent more and crazier villains that deviate from reality. I occasionally wish we could make the government somehow actually start oppressing conservative evangelical Christians, because not one of them would handle it. But even laying it out like that shows how preposterous the preposition is! We can’t even really imagine a path to that happening! Neither can they! The people who made this movie thought Christians would be executed in the street decades ago! But in the present we can only just exist outside of Christian hegemony.
All the usual suspects are in this movie: Kevin Sorbo, Scott Baio, Dean Cain, that Pureflix dude who casts himself in every movie he writes... All that's missing is Kristy Swanson and Gina Carano. I was surprised to see Isaiah Washington as I remember him from his Spike Lee collaborations and his roles in several other pro-Black movies in the '90s. I Googled him, and apparently he was fired from Grey's Anatomy for calling another actor a homophobic slur. I guess that's his villain origin story.
Ah, yes, Gina Carano - I still vividly remember how she lied on Rogan about being fired for making fun of pronouns when she was in fact fired for posting racist, antisemitic memes.
As someone who has only seen God's Not Dead 2 (inside a church ran by one real monster of a pastor, do i have stories there.) I'm glad to see them bringing back my favorite character to draw me back in, really love that politician guy.
I pray for the day “God’s Not Dead 7: Thank God This is the Last Piece of F*cking Sh*t Movie We’ll Ever Make!” comes out. Ugh. At least Star Trek only had one movie that was focused on God. And if God was a creative consultant for any of these, then why do they exist? 😂
Why do most Christian movies feel like they embody that 'trust me bro it totally happened than then all the strangers who saw it and gave me a standing ovation!' guy
As a Catholic, the commercial nature of Hallow is beginning to unsettle me, as is the "coming out" of so many "Fox News celebrities" as Catholic. There seems to be a movement among (super?)wealthy Catholic laypeople to try to hitch the Church's wagon to Trumpism/Christian nationalism, and I... REALLY wish they wouldn't do that lol. People forget the same far-right coalition thought Catholics were pinkos in the 70s and 80s for our social justice emphasis. We can't let them take over the direction of the American Church
I almost spit out my food at the Dean Cain cameo. That guy has really, really let himself go over the decades and it's hard to believe that I used to love watching him and Terry Hatcher every week. And if the next film isn't subtitled "One Nation Under God," I will be stunned they didn't go for such low-hanging fruit.
@@NCRLouTenant --- See, as brazen as that would be, I don't know that it would keep with the piss-awful writing and religious gatekeeping/Christian supremacy. It would be a tacit acknowledgment of a non-Christian God whose followers can succeed at their mission, and these films are made by idiotic clowns who don't like it when anybody who isn't a fanatical Christian succeeds. I'll say it probably will touch the subject but not go farther because Pastor Dave won't have enough time to pray for a vague-but-perfect answer to the situation before the credits need to roll.
Haha he is one of my favourite superman, yeah. no wonder he sunk into weird bmovies after, Then caviezel is my favourite not matmans and, . yeah, person of interest really is great and he managed somehow there, and the rest is great. And he ..
I remember theres a video where the first Gods Not Dead was shown to a bunch of young Catholics, one of them said that the main problem with the film is that it badly stereotyped atheists as angry loudmouthed bigots. Made me smile a little.
All of those American christians going “when christianity leaves the nation, democracy leaves with it” should take a look at Denmark and The Netherlands, one of the least religious countries in Europe. Both are miles and miles and *miles* ahead of the US in both living standards, social welfare and, most importantly, democracy. And I say that as a christian btw
Saying your husband isn't dead once implies the person telling you was wrong and your husband is alive. Saying your husband isn't dead 5 times in a row implies that yes, he is, and you are in denial.
I was an associate pastor when the first one of these cinematic coprolites rattled out into theaters, and my phone for a week would not stop getting texts from church members texting me "GOD'S NOT DEAD!". No explanation. No elaboration. Just those words, like I would understand the meaning and intent behind them. I'd just respond "Ok!" because what do you do at that point? then i watched the damned thing and apparently that was a call to action at the end?? Like that meant something. Like it did anything other than annoy people. "text people that God isn't Dead!" is the hallucinatory madness one would expect from some desert mystic who stole a Nokia. But no. Jim and Steff from podunk saw the movie-picture and the Newsboys told them to text me. so they did. God, I hate the Christian "media" production industry, it's so bafflingly inept at doing anything good. Like Hank Hill once said, "You're not making Christianity better, you're just making rock n' roll worse."
You know, I recently spent a day watching 'Amityville Island' 'Amityville in Space', 'Amityville Death House', and 'Amityville Emanuel'. I feel like I still saw films of more value somehow.
That’s crazy! My first question upon hearing an individual say “I’m going to see god’s not dead 5” would be “WHY!?!?!!” I would then remind them that they have so much to live for and that whatever has them in such a rut is temporary… If all that failed, I would make a final attempt to dissuade them from punishing themselves in such a severe manner by reminding them of all the atrocities committed in the name of religion, the countless lives religion has destroyed and just how dangerous modern evangelical culture is.
"...I didn't know they made after school specials for people with a seniors discount..." Oh please don't give Pureflix or whatever any ideas! Little Me barely survived The ABC After-School Special programming back in the 70s and 80s. (Though Scott Baio - he plays the character keeps talking about his ex's bod in GND5 - was in "Stoned" back in the day, and is an absolute HOOT.)
Gods not dead 1: A very very flawed movie with not great messaging, but was generally made with passion. Gods not dead 2-5: “Christianity is so oppressed. Right guys?… I wanna be persecuted so bad, please”
"We have never had an atheist president" Honestly I firmly believe Trump is an atheist. If he does actually believe in god I would love to actually get an explanation on how he thinks the system works and why he thinks he will be going to heaven, because lets face it if he believes in the afterlife he is convinced God will be there personally to greet only him, show him around, and ask him to run the place
I remember when the first one came out and all my favorite internet atheists were talking about how awful it is. Crazy they've made 5 of these. Must be money laundering.
Ray Wise's "moral high ground" line makes him sound like an anime villain. "Shrugging off Naruto's attack, the Democratic incumbent senator Obito Uchiha declared, 'I will show you despair'..."
The people who make, and are inspired by, these films feel like it's an attack if the government isn't willing to persecute the people who they want to persecute in Jesus' name (but, importantly, not at his command.) This kind of makes sense when you consider the first white settlers in America were there because England had been through a violent religious war and, when the puritans (the first generation of enthusiastic Protestants) wanted to keep it going the crown had had enough and shut them down. They will tell people they fled religious persecution but, no, they fled because they wanted to *commit* religious persecution and the existing government wasn't interested in more of that. The persecution complex has survived to this day.
Catholics have the Sistine Chapel, Mormons have the Salt Lake Temple and Evangelicals have God's Not Dead. One of these is not like the other.
So true tho
@@BleachBath-fr8ps Yah, but LDS and Catholics but into the GND verse. "We're oppressed, too!" Only the Mormons actually have a case to make (as in, the US did declare war on them).
Lmfao so true
Yeah why do the mormons worship in a lego set?
@@mrbork7218
Exmormon here and I will NOT take this Lego set slander /LH
I'm honestly shocked the woman wasn't being kicked out of the shelter to make room for trans women.
God that would have been SO GOOD
As a trans woman watching this in a woman’s shelter, I often wonder if there are reactionaries ranting about me
If the screenwriter(s) saw this, they'd be kicking themselves for not thinking of that.
I hope things get better for you. I did a couple months off, and on in a men's shelter.@@voltijuice8576
that's exactly where I thought they would go with the scene I was preparing for it
Calling GND4 "A New Pope" is quite possibly the funniest joke you've ever made.
Thank you 😇
I'm pretty sure these people would not consider Catholics real christians
@@deaddomain that ad sticker on your mic is cute!
ngl Id actually watch it if that was the title
When is "atheists strikes back" going to come out? My favorite is "the satan menace" /j
i'm a christian, but separation of church and state is a hill i will absolutely die on.
Same here.
Absolutely. Religion and state should never be mixed because it automatically sets up a power dynamic in favour of the "ruling" religion, regardless of whatever measures are taken to prevent such a dynamic occuring.
Me too
You are a rare gem, my friend.
“The government of the U.S. is not, in any sense, founded on the Christian religion.” -John Adams. Just in case you need proof of what the founding fathers wanted there’s this quote and many other although i this is the most blatant one I’ve heard
oh god, the martyrbating...
Horrible/fantastic term for it
That is my new favorite word, thank you so much for that 😂
I think Jeremy Sherman, of the Trying Beings channel, might have used it in his series about herobot behaviour.
i think i first read it at least 15 years ago on pz myers' blog
Doin my best to commit that one to memory lol
From the trailer: "We must maintain a wall of separation between the church and state."
Me: Cool!
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That a brilliant idea!
They don't want the state to dictate the church, they want the church to dictate the state.
Is that supposed to be a bad thing?
@@BatAmerica from the perspective of the Religious fascists right it is.
Every sensible argument, posed by these propagandas pretending to be movies, is meant to be bad, straw manned and ridiculous to brainwashed religious zealot.
The whole "The United States is a Christian nation" lie that is occasionally is pandered only helps enforce the belief 'wall of seperation' is wrong.
Acording to this movie forcing a nation of diverse people to follow a single religious doctorine is good, and exposing corruption is wrong? Honestly how can someone be that delusional?
Agreed. I grew up Catholic, and don't practice anymore. I'm a liberal. My religious parents are actually pretty liberal. The nuns who taught me did organizing for unions, worked for social justice, campaigned for migrants and against the death penalty and eco justice, and hammered "the preferrential option for the poor" into us: that all social policy made, especially by Catholic lawmakers, should take into account the poor FIRST. I have such fond memories of them. I know this isn't everyone's experience, it was mine.
For people who believe in a literal interpretation of the Bible and still go around thinking god is the morally good guy, rooting for this movie's character is pretty tame by comparison
Change the religion in this movie to Islam and I guarantee the people behind this movie would be outraged, but still not understand why a country should have a theocratic government.
Because he’s christian so it’s ok
@@BloodRedFox2008Do you think every Muslim wants to live in a theocracy?
Why is pastor dave rejecting god's plan for his body by bleaching his hair???
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Does pastor Dave have peroxide poisoning from the hair dye? 😅
Because he _isn't a woman._ Keep up!
So many pairs of glasses too...
When i went to see Transformers One, i saw posters outside for "God's not dead", "Am I Racist?", and "Reagen"
Its a pretty standard movie theatre, but a strange coincedence.
All wide releases. It’s a depressing state of affairs.
Conservative Barbenheimer
All three of those films should fall under the horror category
If it's any consolation, of those four movies, only Transformers One is playing in Spain. Or, my part of Spain, anyway.
By the way, was the movie any good? I'm a big TF fan but the trailers were dismal.
I need a Christian dystopian movie trailer to open with- “In a world. (Which God made in Seven Days)” honestly these movies are becoming my Roman Empire.
YES😂❤
Well sounds like you need to watch the passion of the christ again for the Christian movie Roman Empire crossover of the century!
You'll be happy to know there is an entire subgenre of that: Rapture movies.
Wdym by Roman Empire?
The main thing the first God's Not Dead taught me is why Lucy Lawless is so much cooler than Kevin Sorbro.
I like that you called him Sorbro!😂❤
Kevin Sorbro, the evolved form of Kevin Sorpoke
I'm a New Zealander (like Lucy) and we're proud she's one of us.
She regularly publicly calls him Peanut and I love her for it. Cuz he's just a useless baby man
Lucy is also a strong advocate for legal cannabis because she is just the best :)
The weird longing for persecution in these movies borders on kink territory, they SO BADLY want to be persecuted that they fantasize about it and watch this terrible fictional universe while saying "God I wish that were me"
Part of me wants to oblige them
That’s why a lot of people call it a persecution fetish
They never got over Diocletian.
It's worse than you think. For a lot of them, of Christians really are being persecuted, that means the End Times are upon us, which to them means that all the "unbelievers" will burn in hell.
They are getting excited at the prospect of torturing all of the people who disagree with them.
I think it's the only real feedback they get, since god ain't answering. But yeah, kink makes sense too 😂
Don't forget everyone's favorite GND character... The Agnostic-Seeking Truck-Kun
Isekai Truck-Kun's little brother
If I ever make a parody of these films, I will seriously have a large truck randomly follow the protagonist around, including inside buildings, as if it was a sentient human.
@@reignfire85Every antagonist dies by the tires of Truck-kun-- During the main character's lowest moment, when he's questioning himself and his faith seven movies in, he looks up to see Truck-kun watching him from under a street lamp, as if waiting to finally claim him.
Now I want a sequel to the first movie,
where the angry atheist just gets isekai'd and has to interact with anime stereotypes (true hell).
@xliza5242x You could probably afford to cast Kevin Sorbo at this point
FIVE!? They're up to _5_ of these? Truly we live in degenerate times.
Don’t say it too loud or they’ll greenlight part 6
@@deaddomain nah, they've reached sequel saturation. Now it's time for a prequel.
@@MaterialMenteNoGod's Not Dead: In the Beginning...
@@SilkyLew God's Not Dead Minus One?
These movie are the FIFTH sign of the apocalypse! 😆
David A.R. White and Benjamin Onyango's characters from the first 3 movies were so obviously into each other sexually.
Oh they had chemistry
Best thing about the movies other than Ray Wise. The relationship was so wholesome.
We could have had religious middle aged man yaoi if they weren't cowards!
real
It would be the plot twist of the century.
God's Not Dead 6: Origins
God's Not Dead 7: Resurrection
God's Not Dead 8: Holiday to Hawaii
God's Not Dead 9: God vs Jesus Dawn of Justice
God's Not Dead 10: God Is Dead
Gangie 4: Gangie on the Ganges
When the apocalypse, wher üpastor dave is a cyborg leading the chosen.
God's Not Dead: The Game
God's Not Dead: The Game: The Movie
God's Not Dead 11: Redemption
God's Not Dead 11: It Was Loki Playing Tricks All Along
My favorite plot line is how the character who was a dedicated Christian died of cancer but the none Christian reporter simply has it prayed away in 5 seconds
I would like you to know that from this day forward I will be worshipping pansexual goose
"Get me that man to run for Congress!"
Same vibes as "I want pictures of Spider-Man!!!"
Without J.K. Simmons it's not the same
The GND Cinematic Universe has to continue so that David A R White can keep up with maintenance of his frosted tips.
Inshallah 🙏🙏
They’reeeeeee cringe!
This !! ☝️☝️☝️☝️☝️
An ad came on your video of some politician ranting and I thought it was footage from the film. Took me about five minutes to realize it wasn't your video.
Just got the same thing, Bob Avakian or something. Claiming he doesn't want to be President. Wild.
Just got it, too. I saw this comment beforehand, though, so I at least was warned
Same! I was like wow, that was a jump cut.
@@gorillazzillathemeh5897 sounds like an easy problem to solve you just need to not run and you will never become president!
You can't get on (or off) the ballot less than a month before the election in most places. Just ask RFK Jr. how that's going.
Dave is a black belt in Jesutsu.
How dare you be funny
😂😂😂
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Jesutjutsu Kaisen. “Are you The Messiah because you’re Jesus Christ, or are you Jesus Christ because you’re The Messiah?”
@@bigshot2907 absolute cinema
dead's not dead: in dead we trust
Just doing my job 🫡
I would argue that religion should be taken into account when drafting legislation, but, like, in the way where you make sure the Amish can sign paper paperwork instead of electronic paperwork, or making sure Sikhs aren’t forced to remove their turbans for any reason, or making sure there are food safety regulations that include kosher and halal foods so they are also safe. But not like this movie wants.
This is a really good point to make
But you dont let the amish elders do that legislation for example, you listen and then consider, as not amish.
"Christian gymleaders with a black belt in jesus" makes pastors sound so much cooler than they actually are. 😂
No it does not
@@SirButtz Gym Leaders as in Pokémon.
"Baptizard! I choose you!"
So happy to hear you talk about this utter mess. It's absolutely bonkers how put upon Christians feel. They're so oppressed, they have to make up scenarios. I live in a hotbed of home schooling, and my state at least is doing everything in their power to assist them. Hands washed.
When you look at media like this, it’s so ridiculous it almost stops being funny
@@lynnefox4892 I'd like to apologize on behalf of my faith.
@@deaddomain It does. I seem to remember a time when Christians professed an allegiance to truth, something about setting one free. But now so many will just greedily and gratefully swallow any lie.
It's not that far fetched. If Christians didn't fight back against the wars on Christmas, the GND universe would literally be our timeline... or worse
@ananousous there is no such thing as a "war on Christmas".
The only GND I want is a crossover with Godzilla: Minus One. Call it Godzilla's Not Dead
Now we’re talking
In Godzilla We Trust
OMFG THAT GENIUS 😂
"Did we finally kill Godzilla?!"
"Yes! We did! The city is saved!"
*Godzilla roar*
"...Godzilla's not dead..."
1. God is dead and we killed him (good he doesn't exist, that would suck.)
2. You are giving like a vintage star vanity vibe and I'm diggin it. Stunning.
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For a proper paradox, imagine a movie about opening a Schrödinger's box with a god inside it.
Why does it have to make such an oblique reference instead of borrowing a page from Mel Brooks, and just calling it _God's Not Dead 5: the Search for More Money_ ?
That would have been too high brow
Maybe they could call the next one Christnado 😂
They didn't get it. GnD 5 did turn a profit, but only barely - and with revenues declining each film, a further GnD film would not merit the investment. Unless there's a wealthy sponsor willing to throw away about two million dollars, it's not going to happen.
@@vylbird8014"Where's my money?" 🍕
"I wouldn't trust these people with a fork and an electrical outlet." I lold at that one. 😂
An actual line of Dialogue from the film:
“You’re making God an easy target for them Pastor”.
“God’s not the target. Our country is. Gods just standing in their way”.
So…….I KNOW where or should I say….WHO…..this movie got that line from. So, are they really saying……what I think they’re saying….????
Almost certainly
I don't get the reference, but I'd like to understand. Would you mind explaining?
@@samuelkoebbe5638 Donald Trump has been quoted: “They (the deep state) are not after me, they are after you. I’m just standing in their way”.
@@samuelkoebbe5638Donald Trump is quoted saying the same thing. Now, read the quote again from that context.
@@roc5291Ohhhh ok gotcha. Thank you. Guess I missed the article on that one lol
God may not be dead, but I bet he wishes he was.
A 50 pound mallet disguised as a film.
LMAO
I saw the title of this video and my first thought was "oh no." my second thought was "do I have 30 minutes to spare?"
Jury is still out whether or not god is dead at this point
We have to get at least part 6 before we find out I guess
@@deaddomain These movies would be so much better is God died at the end of each movie and came back to life in the next, like Jason Voorhees.
Yeah, after four movies, it's starting to feel like denial...
@@blackheartzerotheundergrou3225 lol Trust me guys, he’s not dead!
Gods not dead 6: no wait, he died guys what do we do now?
In all seriousness, I've been so excited for this review. Thank you dude!
Thank you! Sorry it took so long to get out!
@@deaddomain omg no worries! You're busy and perfectly fine! The wait is worth it!
God’s not Dead: Weekend at Bernie’s
@@joearnold6881I loled so hard. 2 angels making it look like he's fine, just always wearing ray-bans while meeting hot angel women on the beach.
I need this in my life
He came back after 3 Days :P
It's a little interesting to see the evolution of this franchise in relativity to the first. Not saying the earlier entries were good at all but they at least pretended to be focused on a more personal faith level and while they end with "Accept Jesus and all your problems will disappear." They have become more explicit in "you must assure that the entire nation becomes christian or else everything you love will be gone."
Oh absolutely, it’s been a pure descent into open nationalism
My question is, how can you say "God's not dead" when he was never alive in the first place?
@damianjblack In context of discussing the movie franchise, God is assumed to be among the kast of kharacters despite little to no onscreen presence.
@@autobotstarscream765 what is dead may never die
Conservatism, particularly Conservative Christianity, is basically "Everyone is free to do and believe whatever they want, as long as they do and believe exactly what I want them to."
Whats crazy is you uploaded this right as i finished watching the "Im not racist" review about the time you mentioned putting this video together, i remember watching the first movie in class and having my catholic faith fucking crumble because they basically kill a man moments after he repents and it made me realize "holy shit im being propagandized to by psychos"
At least you realise that this plot point is so fuck up.
I'm a Christian and I can't stand these Fundie movies.
And I hope to satirize them in a book one day.
They’re so ripe for a proper spoof
Why don't you like them?
@@hardsayings2400i don't like then cause they lazy, badly made, intellectually dishonest, persecution fetish propaganda
@@hardsayings2400 because it's a Christian Persecution complex fanfic fever dream.
The Christians of this franchise are sanctimonious, holier-than-thou, ignorant, insular, delusional, and condescending. They desire to run an authoritarian theocracy.
They act less Christlike and more like the legalistic priests who persecuted Jesus. They're bullies playing victim. Crybullies.
@@hardsayings2400 because it's fanfic fever dream and delusion of Christian Persecution complex.
"He has a blackbelt in Jesus"
Thank you for doing the media reviews, I know the algorithm hates them but I love them; you make me laugh so much
I’m so glad people can enjoy my lighter work too :3
"there is a god's not dead 2?"
yeah, the one where sabrina did nothing actually wrong yet still get persecuted by a TV satan.
The most depressing thing about this isn't even this travesty of a film, it's being reminded of Ray Wise's portrayal of Satan in the Reaper TV series and its unceremonious cancelation
Ray Wise deserves better!
@@deaddomain I hope he got paid well and his drinking during scenes was just a contract rider for decent booze to soothe this headache of a script
Ray Wise is the only good thing about these movies, and his charisma basically makes everyone else look like a bag of slop.
Plus what he says makes sense, so even though he’s supposed to be eeeeevil, the whole time you’re like, yup, yup, of course.
David AR White isn’t the worst actor, but next to Wise he’s like a sad glass of skim milk.
Ray Wise going from Twin Peaks and Robocop to this is so funny and so sad at the same time.
So THAT'S where I recognize him from.
Wasn’t he also in Psych?
He was in God's Not Dead 2 as well. I don't get it.
He also played the devil in Reaper, a really fun show that was sadly cancelled after 2 seasons. From the clips I've seen his character in the God's Not Dead films doesn't act all that different. I think film 6 should make it canon they're the same character and bring in the actors who played the gay rebel demon couple as the main protagonists.
Dont forget reaper.
I took "So who dropped the ball, because it wasn't god." In a totally different way.
I saw it as "Well who's going to fix it, hmm? It wasn't God that took the funding." As in government is corrupt, and humans are inheirently selfish to which I was like: Bro. That was based as FUCK! 😂
ME TOO
Dang, did I need this kind of levity today. Thanks DD! You’re awesome! Good luck on getting a new place to live!
Thank you 🙏
If anyone wants a palette cleanser series about Christianity with a much more nuanced and thoughtful point of view, check out Midnight Mass. it’s a “horror” series but it’s really an excellent meditation on the role of religion in society and in individual people’s lives. Great series. The ending gave me chills. It’s quite beautiful. The series is critical of religion, bigotry and moralizing, but also demonstrates the good that can come from faith too.
That was an awesome series. I especially liked the guy who played the pastor. Great actor. But I like everything by Flanagan anyway.
@@MrSeedi76 yeah Flanagan is an incredible director. Fall of house usher was really good and very different from his other work which is generally more subdued. But something about midnight mass in particular really spoke to me. You can tell flanagan was raised in a religious Catholic household and told some deep trauma from it. He uses horror to explore the human condition, and the real horror comes more from the behavior of people rather than the monsters, demons, whatever.
The priest’s performance was electrifying. Everyone in the cast is good but Bev Keane’s smug bigotry and self righteousness and especially father Paul’s sermons are just master classes in acting. The ending is one of my favorites of all time. It ties up the plot and the themes of the story so perfectly. **Minor Spoilers**
You spend most of the series thinking Riley is the protagonist, but really the entire town is the protagonist of the story. Haunting and beautiful.
My first time on your channel - commenting for the algorithm and to say you're absolutely gorgeous. I wish I could pull off a pixie cut that well and your makeup is perfection.
All I'll say is God's Not Dead is the Sharknado of the Christ-ploitation subgenre.
Unrelated but the little pig plushie/figure is adorable!
Snape coming back in part 7 would have honestly been a surprise.
Q: What would America look like without Gawd?
A: A pretty sweet place!
[insert the "Can you imagine a world without lawyers?" meme]
Or if people actually took seriously what Jesus said about loving your neighbor and treating others as you would want to be treated. But it's not like most evangelicals seem to ever even have heard of that.
I'd recommend God Awful Movie's review of this movie, very funny.
The make the observation that this series (that basically inspired their podcast) perfectly chronicles the religious rights decent into fascism and it's both very funny and very sad
Oh that’s dead on too
One thing the god awful movies crew focused on, David AR White got divorced between movies. His ex wife is in this movie. The GAM crew joke a lot about how Andrea Logan(Davids ex wife) got the rights to half the movie and forced David to do a lot of silly things to make him look like an idiot. They also laugh at when the movie came out, the movie focused on a debate was released right after the Kamala/Trump debate where the rights darling performed terribly.
These movies are such a trip because they can’t bare to portray themselves losing, *ever* , in any way. But at the same time, need to be persecuted by an all-powerful domineering enemy.
EXACTLY. Like they’re all about overcoming adversity but they always overcome no matter what
@@deaddomain they like the _aesthetic_ of overcoming adversity. They grasp the good feelings of defeating a foe. But as time has gone on and their prophesied oppression just hasn’t happened, they’ve needed to invent more and crazier villains that deviate from reality.
I occasionally wish we could make the government somehow actually start oppressing conservative evangelical Christians, because not one of them would handle it.
But even laying it out like that shows how preposterous the preposition is! We can’t even really imagine a path to that happening! Neither can they!
The people who made this movie thought Christians would be executed in the street decades ago! But in the present we can only just exist outside of Christian hegemony.
“You can call me Dave..”
“We’ll see 😏”
I’m still just bewildered by it
“You’ve got my number, so call me Davy”
The incomprehensible "movie scrips" I made with my friends in elementary school had more tension then this movie.
that jump cut to "oh my god, this movie sucks" made me LOL-ed. thanks for that.
I do my best 🫡
All the usual suspects are in this movie: Kevin Sorbo, Scott Baio, Dean Cain, that Pureflix dude who casts himself in every movie he writes... All that's missing is Kristy Swanson and Gina Carano. I was surprised to see Isaiah Washington as I remember him from his Spike Lee collaborations and his roles in several other pro-Black movies in the '90s. I Googled him, and apparently he was fired from Grey's Anatomy for calling another actor a homophobic slur. I guess that's his villain origin story.
Yeah that tracks
Ah, yes, Gina Carano - I still vividly remember how she lied on Rogan about being fired for making fun of pronouns when she was in fact fired for posting racist, antisemitic memes.
And then everybody clapped.
LITERALLY THOUGH. For TWO MOVIES IN A ROW they did the exact same thing.
These films will probably be ai generated after a while lol
At this point, the Marvel Cinematic Universe is more realistic than the God's Not Dead movies.
As someone who has only seen God's Not Dead 2 (inside a church ran by one real monster of a pastor, do i have stories there.) I'm glad to see them bringing back my favorite character to draw me back in, really love that politician guy.
And who doesn’t love Ray Wise tbh
He is great in reaper,
I don't always give thumb ups on videos, but you got one for the MGS4 Big Boss comment.
Real
I pray for the day “God’s Not Dead 7: Thank God This is the Last Piece of F*cking Sh*t Movie We’ll Ever Make!” comes out. Ugh. At least Star Trek only had one movie that was focused on God. And if God was a creative consultant for any of these, then why do they exist? 😂
I hope we get them until the heat death of the universe
What does God... Need with a crappy movie franchise?
@@dexstewart862 Hey, I understand that reference.
God's Not Dead 8: The One With The Whales
@@dexstewart862 😂👏👏🖖
Why do most Christian movies feel like they embody that 'trust me bro it totally happened than then all the strangers who saw it and gave me a standing ovation!' guy
Practically invented the genre
We could have had Joe Exotic as President in 2016, but here we are.
You got Trump and the only real difference is socio-economic class
David A.R. White just can't get a dress shirt that fits correctly around his neck, huh?
This movies costuming was probably one person who said “bring whatever you have at home”
It's always incredible to me how often these Christian fundie films boil down to "wouldn't it be messed up if people treated us how we treat others?"
The fact this and Am I Racist got released is theaters in concerning.
Shout out to the praying app ad I got before watching this video
Big ups 🙏🙏🙏
"Stay prayed up, homie! Just like me, Mark Wahlberg! "
As a Catholic, the commercial nature of Hallow is beginning to unsettle me, as is the "coming out" of so many "Fox News celebrities" as Catholic. There seems to be a movement among (super?)wealthy Catholic laypeople to try to hitch the Church's wagon to Trumpism/Christian nationalism, and I... REALLY wish they wouldn't do that lol. People forget the same far-right coalition thought Catholics were pinkos in the 70s and 80s for our social justice emphasis. We can't let them take over the direction of the American Church
The algorithm "sees" God in the title and that's enough to get those adverts. The algorithm isn't all that clever 😂.
On a whole different note, you're looking particularly fantastic here, wow
Great video as usual btw
I almost spit out my food at the Dean Cain cameo. That guy has really, really let himself go over the decades and it's hard to believe that I used to love watching him and Terry Hatcher every week.
And if the next film isn't subtitled "One Nation Under God," I will be stunned they didn't go for such low-hanging fruit.
I truly fear the next movie will be about what's happening in Gaza where Dave goes to Israel and joins the IDF
@@NCRLouTenant --- See, as brazen as that would be, I don't know that it would keep with the piss-awful writing and religious gatekeeping/Christian supremacy. It would be a tacit acknowledgment of a non-Christian God whose followers can succeed at their mission, and these films are made by idiotic clowns who don't like it when anybody who isn't a fanatical Christian succeeds. I'll say it probably will touch the subject but not go farther because Pastor Dave won't have enough time to pray for a vague-but-perfect answer to the situation before the credits need to roll.
Is that Dean Cain?
Haha he is one of my favourite superman, yeah. no wonder he sunk into weird bmovies after,
Then caviezel is my favourite not matmans and, . yeah, person of interest really is great and he managed somehow there, and the rest is great. And he ..
It’s high time that God’s Not Dead crossed over with another franchise. I personally believe it should crossover with The Expendables.
I remember theres a video where the first Gods Not Dead was shown to a bunch of young Catholics, one of them said that the main problem with the film is that it badly stereotyped atheists as angry loudmouthed bigots. Made me smile a little.
I think I know where this cinematic universe is going, by GND 10 we will see legally distinct space marines battling those filthy filthy heretics
Emp's Not Dead?
Wait... GND is basically a Warhammer 40K prequel??
All of those American christians going “when christianity leaves the nation, democracy leaves with it” should take a look at Denmark and The Netherlands, one of the least religious countries in Europe. Both are miles and miles and *miles* ahead of the US in both living standards, social welfare and, most importantly, democracy. And I say that as a christian btw
France too!
Saying your husband isn't dead once implies the person telling you was wrong and your husband is alive.
Saying your husband isn't dead 5 times in a row implies that yes, he is, and you are in denial.
Oh my God, they made 5 of those pieces of shit?
Exactly my reaction when I found out. “Wait, there’s 5?!”
The Atheists keep trying to kill God but he won't stay dead. He's like Rasputin.
I was an associate pastor when the first one of these cinematic coprolites rattled out into theaters, and my phone for a week would not stop getting texts from church members texting me "GOD'S NOT DEAD!". No explanation. No elaboration. Just those words, like I would understand the meaning and intent behind them. I'd just respond "Ok!" because what do you do at that point? then i watched the damned thing and apparently that was a call to action at the end?? Like that meant something. Like it did anything other than annoy people. "text people that God isn't Dead!" is the hallucinatory madness one would expect from some desert mystic who stole a Nokia. But no. Jim and Steff from podunk saw the movie-picture and the Newsboys told them to text me. so they did.
God, I hate the Christian "media" production industry, it's so bafflingly inept at doing anything good. Like Hank Hill once said, "You're not making Christianity better, you're just making rock n' roll worse."
There's FIVE of them?!
I even counted twice
You kept saying bad and it reminded me of Megamind telling Minion, "you don't know what's good for bad!"
You know, I recently spent a day watching 'Amityville Island' 'Amityville in Space', 'Amityville Death House', and 'Amityville Emanuel'. I feel like I still saw films of more value somehow.
You look INCREDIBLE in this video. The hair, the makeup! Light, ethereal makeup just works so well for you 😊
If God isn't dead, he'd wish he was if he had to watch this movie... 💀
God's Not Dead 6: The Secret of the Ooze, God's Not Dead 7: Mission to Moscow, God's Not Dead 8: The New Batch...
God's not Dead: In God We Trust is sadly playing out in Congress in the form of MTG, Lauren Boebert, and Mike Johnson.
That’s crazy! My first question upon hearing an individual say “I’m going to see god’s not dead 5” would be “WHY!?!?!!” I would then remind them that they have so much to live for and that whatever has them in such a rut is temporary… If all that failed, I would make a final attempt to dissuade them from punishing themselves in such a severe manner by reminding them of all the atrocities committed in the name of religion, the countless lives religion has destroyed and just how dangerous modern evangelical culture is.
Very keen for this vid but just wanna say real quick, rad to see runic tattoos on someone *anti*-fash
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"...I didn't know they made after school specials for people with a seniors discount..."
Oh please don't give Pureflix or whatever any ideas! Little Me barely survived The ABC After-School Special programming back in the 70s and 80s.
(Though Scott Baio - he plays the character keeps talking about his ex's bod in GND5 - was in "Stoned" back in the day, and is an absolute HOOT.)
Gods not dead 1: A very very flawed movie with not great messaging, but was generally made with passion.
Gods not dead 2-5: “Christianity is so oppressed. Right guys?… I wanna be persecuted so bad, please”
Thank you for your sacrifice!.. Give yourself a 3 day weekend as a reward!
Loving your new look btw. You look amazing!
Gods Not Dead 6: REVENGEANCE
Say what you will but it'll have a bitching soundtrack
@@NCRLouTenant they better get Keygen Church on the score. Tenebre Rosso Sangue would go hard over a blackbelt Jesutsu montage
I happened to do behind-the-scenes video for a few days on this “film”. It truly was a bizarre experience.
God's Not Dead: The News Boys Return Yet Again
"We have never had an atheist president"
Honestly I firmly believe Trump is an atheist. If he does actually believe in god I would love to actually get an explanation on how he thinks the system works and why he thinks he will be going to heaven, because lets face it if he believes in the afterlife he is convinced God will be there personally to greet only him, show him around, and ask him to run the place
I remember when the first one came out and all my favorite internet atheists were talking about how awful it is. Crazy they've made 5 of these. Must be money laundering.
Honestly wouldn’t be surprised
"God's not dead 4: A new pope" got me...
There should be a parody movie where a pastor says he has a black-belt in Jesus😂
"I did a lot of crossfit"
@@aleksabanjevic8316😂😂😂
Ray Wise's "moral high ground" line makes him sound like an anime villain.
"Shrugging off Naruto's attack, the Democratic incumbent senator Obito Uchiha declared, 'I will show you despair'..."
Gods not dead a new cope
How long till Blaze, Daily Wire and all them get together to do their own academy awards
Oh please god let this happen it would be so funny
🍿🥤 Please! Someone should think up a clever name for them. I’m all out of ideas today.
The people who make, and are inspired by, these films feel like it's an attack if the government isn't willing to persecute the people who they want to persecute in Jesus' name (but, importantly, not at his command.)
This kind of makes sense when you consider the first white settlers in America were there because England had been through a violent religious war and, when the puritans (the first generation of enthusiastic Protestants) wanted to keep it going the crown had had enough and shut them down. They will tell people they fled religious persecution but, no, they fled because they wanted to *commit* religious persecution and the existing government wasn't interested in more of that.
The persecution complex has survived to this day.