Joshua Facemyer

@theblessedsalt Very odd take. Excellent movie for many reasons.

I saw The Passion in theaters in Lent 2004. I was a Catholic seminarian. A local Baptist pastor offered his bus to drive a group of us to see it. It had only been out a few days. It’s an amazing film and the take below — specifically in regard to its violence — is frankly just really weird to me. Of course it’s violent. It’s probably much less violent than the reality.

I took the German or Autistic diagnostic and I'm apparently just German. german.millermanschool.com

Even today there are tombs to be opened, and often the stones sealing them are so heavy and so closely guarded that they seem to be immovable. Some weigh heavily on the human heart, such as mistrust, fear, selfishness and resentment; others, stemming from these inner struggles, sever the bonds between us through war, injustice and the isolation of peoples and nations. Let us not allow ourselves to be paralyzed by them! #Easter

@bilbosfootcomb Give her the dang salami already!

Being a dad is so funny because one day you’re a “young adult” and then you wake up and there is a tiny female version of you standing in your doorway asking for a slice of salami at 6:48am

Easter Vigil homily quote: "The Church doesn't ask us to stand on tables." BIG if true.

GM!

@smithhmesteadms Right? And real Christians love all other people for actual real. Regardless of how they look. Even though we hate sin.

I dont think non-Christians realize that most of us don't really care what Jesus looked like. I dont care if he was black, white. Asian, middle eastern. I DO NOT CARE. He is my king. All that matters is the passion and the resurrection. His mercy, His grace. HIS VICTORY over the grave. Believe it or not, most devout Christians waste no time witn such petty things as this.

@aelfred_D That tweet surely decimated the use of the word. Right? Everyone will comply.

This decimated me

@catholic_love But this is why people are horrible. You should graciously accept and eat whatever is given to you out of charity. Like, if you don't, you're pretty much a horrible person. Unless it's just legitimately bad food that nobody would eat.

@catholic_love Dude, a salad is exactly what I want people to give me because I love salad, it's a comfort food, and it's also healthy and doesn't make me feel like garbage, which makes me comfortable as well. Like, feel free to add a bunch of extras like cheese and croutons and stuff.

@aelfred_D Also, while we're at it, "they" and "their" are always plural. 0 (zero) exceptions.

Just a reminder for idiots, you don’t use an apostrophe to make a noun plural

@Strangeland_Elf Worse

So is this peanuts in coke thing like redneck boba?

@TheFourMarks @jacksonhinklle Correct. However, any child or innocent person killed in war is a travesty.

@jacksonhinklle He wasn't martyred.

💔🇮🇷 Heartbreaking photos show an Iranian mother bidding farewell to her child martyred in a US-Israeli strike

@heyitsmattbaker Proclaimed the Trump was just like Jesus?

Just came back from good friday mass at the pentagon it was beautiful we did all the usual stuff

@HMZZZaZ Normal people don't do this.

Y'all. This is a very real thing in the South. If I remember correctly, there's even coke & peanut combos sold just for this purpose. It's very common. My husband used to do it when he drank coke. I'm told it's delicious. I don't really eat nuts much, so I've never tried it, or maybe it's the Midwestern part of me rebelling against the Southern part.

@ThisOrTheOtter What do you people talking about, he has always been a Muslim.

It's mass hysteria until it becomes a mandela effect.

@OstensiblyChris This is the real 'murca.

There's avoiding the metric system and there's avoiding the metric system.

@ThisOrTheOtter Why should she disappoint him over a shirt?

She is correct because she is your wife. Why would you disappoint her over a shirt?

@The_Real_TC @ImKingGinger @Gimblin Right.

@jfacemyer @ImKingGinger @Gimblin For so-called Christian movie-makers, the formula is such that there must be a “come to Jesus” moment. On the surface, this is admirable, so I don’t object to that message on principle. It’s the set-up and delivery that’s usually contrived and, as you point out, cheese.

The Truth About Why Christian Movies are So Bad. I’ve spent the last four years building a streaming platform and talking to people at the very top of the faith-based entertainment industry. Studio heads. Distributors. Producers. Investors. And I’ve come to a conclusion that I think is going to make a lot of people uncomfortable. Christian movies are bad on purpose. The talent is out there. I’ve met them. I’ve sat with them at 3am over whiskey and cigars listening to pitches that should have been picked up immediately. So that left a question that any Christian filmmaker could quickly answer. If the talent is there, why is everything so mediocre? It starts with an avatar named Bookstore Betty. I’m not making that up. When the faith-based film industry was being built out, it was done in partnership with Christian bookstore executives. They weren’t asking “how do we make great cinema.” They were asking “who walks into our stores and how do we sell them a movie the same way we sell them a devotional.” The target was a 35 year old woman. The tone, the casting, the conflict resolution, the soft lighting, all of it was reverse-engineered to appeal to Betty. Not to a general audience. Not to men. Not to teenagers. Just Betty. Every major Christian film you can think of relies on distribution deals with secular studios. The same studios that blacklisted almost everyone who worked on The Passion of the Christ and refused to distribute Kirk Cameron's Pro Life movie. Think about that. Passion made over $600 million on a $30 million budget. The most obvious play would have been to duplicate that movie hundreds of times like it was the MCU. But instead of greenlighting more, Hollywood blacklisted the people involved. So what did they do instead? They set up a system where they get to be the gatekeepers. They only greenlight the safest, most formulaic, most non-threatening stuff possible. Because if Christian films ever started consistently competing with mainstream entertainment, those studios would have a real problem. So they make sure that never happens. And the church helps them do it. Christian movies don’t need word of mouth. They don’t need to be good. They need pastors to bulk-buy tickets. You make a movie with a “message,” market it to churches, and pastors subsidize the whole thing by buying hundreds of tickets to hand out on Sunday. You don’t have to compete in a fair market when your distribution model is guilt-driven generosity. And the funding is even more rigged. Most of these films are funded through Donor Advised Funds, which means donors get a tax write-off for their “investment” regardless of whether the movie makes a dollar. There’s no market pressure to make something good. The donors got their deduction. The studio got their budget. And Betty got another movie about a woman who finds a journal in the attic. What would happen if someone actually came along and made faith-based content that created pop culture instead of reacting to it? I think it would instantly expose how low-effort the current industry is. It would be like when Uber showed up and embarrassed the taxi industry overnight. The monopoly only survives because nobody has disrupted it yet. The talent is there. The audience is there. The only thing missing is capital that wants disruption instead of a tax write-off.

@ThisOrTheOtter Why would she look so odd?

Did I die? Why would my wife be so somber?