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9 Ways In Which Movies Are Like Church

I was raised in a Christian family, going to church every week, but somewhere in my high school years my enthusiasm for church diminished greatly and my passion for movies awoke. In thinking about this transition, I’m not sure it was entirely coincidental. There’s an inherently spiritual component to movies, and all art but movies in particular for me, in that it stirs up a certain emotional response and a feeling of connectedness to another person and other people. It’s not unusual to experience an epiphany of some sort at a movie, spawning out of the ideas and images laid out before our eyes.

[h2]7) Woe to you if you don’t pay your share[/h2]

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Ah, the guilt that is rained down upon you if you don’t put enough into the trusty offering plate! Churchgoers often hear as frequently as the words of Jesus Christ himself that their church is struggling to make ends meet and that they should really thinking about how much they’re giving and how much more God might be calling on them to donate. It doesn’t have to be money of course, time is also a worthwhile offering, but of course money is just simpler and easier and why don’t you just give a little more? How much is the service of religious fulfillment and facilitation worth to you?

It’s a somewhat similar dilemma with movies these days, an industry looking, and failing, to stamp out so-called piracy at every turn. There are security posted at every major preview event making sure people aren’t videotaping an awful-quality version of Safe Haven so that everyone who wants to see Josh Duhamel’s bare virility pays up, yo. These John Carters won’t pay for themselves.

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