Hollywood's persistent hostility to religious values is not just peculiar, it is positively pathological. Michael Medved More Quotes by Michael Medved More Quotes From Michael Medved If you believe that when the rich get richer, the poor get poorer, then you believe that creating wealth causes poverty, and you're an idiot. Michael Medved creating causes believe The distortions and insults about organized religion will continue unabated as long as our popular culture continues its overall campaign against judgment and values. A war against standards leads logically and inevitably to hostility to religion because it is religious faith that provides the ultimate basis for all standards. Michael Medved religious christian war Unfortunately our children today seem to spend less and less time with their overworked parents, and so they draw more information about the world from the images on movie and TV screens. 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Michael Medved offensive religious christian It wasn't that expectations changed. But [teens] went from general expectations of success to having no idea of the right thing to do. In the '60s there was a strong prejudice against careerism. We were self-indulgent and self-destructive. Michael Medved strong self ideas For many celebrities, securing the publics votes can prove even more reassuring than winning an election by members of the Motion Picture Academy. Michael Medved election vote winning For many of the most powerful people in the entertainment business, hostility to organized religion goes so deep and burns so intensely that they insist on expressing that hostility, even at the risk of financial disaster. Michael Medved powerful religious christian It makes no sense at all to try to deny the reality of Jewish power and prominence in popular culture. Any list of the most influential production executives at each of the major movie studios will produce a heavy majority of recognizably Jewish names. Michael Medved names trying reality Michael Moore became an industry hero and the most visible symbol of the Hollywood left. Michael Medved symbols hollywood hero My objection is not that it's pro-gay but that it appears to be anti-marriage. Michael Medved pro-gay objections gay An important film that must be seen. Saving Lincoln is moving, ingenious, original and impressive. Michael Medved saving important moving The movie industry has ignored the success of films that look favorably on faith with the same sort of self-destructive stubbornness that has led to its continued sponsorship of antireligious-message movies. Michael Medved religious self christian The twentieth century provides little or no evidence in any corner of the globe to support the contention that religion causes most human conflict. Michael Medved support littles religion The bottom line is not money but some sort of demonic compulsion that drives these people to lash out against Jesus Christ, against Christians, and against anyone who holds to a sincere belief in God, in spite of the fact that it is going to cost them tens of millions of dollars to do it. They are driven to 'make a statement' regardless of the consequences. Michael Medved religious christian jesus Asking Hollywood to begin to show some restraint and balance in its antireligious fury is not the same as suggesting that the industry must transform itself into an agency for advancing the Word of God. Michael Medved agency religious christian
