Daily Devotional, Year 3 – December 11 (The Gospel According To Pollyanna, Part 4: “Hollywood’s War On Christianity”)
By admin On February 17th, 2021.
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Daily Devotional, Year 3 – December 11
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The Gospel According To Pollyanna,
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Part 4:
“Hollywood’s War On Christians”
To read Part 1, click here…“January 2 (The Gospel According to Pollyanna, Part 1)”
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The 1960 Disneyland version of the movie, Pollyanna, was about a recently orphaned young girl, who came to live with her very harsh and judgmental aunt.
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But this happy, lovable and precocious little girl in that movie, had always followed her father’s gospel of his own making (which eliminated the thousands of seemingly harsher verses found in the Bible).
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And so, the movie tension was somewhat centered on Pollyanna’s happy, 800-verse judgment-free religion, contrasted against the sour-faced fire-n-brimstone preaching that her overbearing aunt was pushing.
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Well, needless to say, each Sunday became the most unhappy day of the week for all the villagers who were forced to endure those harsh and unhappy sermons, which Aunt Polly coerced Reverend Ford into preaching each week.
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Pollyanna statue – cropped photo – Wikipedia – Creative Commons 2.0 license
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“NEITHER AS BEING LORDS OVER…BUT…EXAMPLES TO THE FLOCK”
1st Peter 5:3
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Now, in this movie, Pollyanna’s infectiously bubbly and upbeat personality began to have a positive impact on the unhappy lives of all those in a little village…
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…the residents whom long-suffered under the harsh and judgmental “Christian” religion of town’s matriarch, Aunt Polly.
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But by the end of the movie, the entire town (including Aunt Polly) had thrown off the dark shroud…
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…the gloomy shroud which had longtime kept this little village in bondage to the doom-n-gloom-fire-n-brimstone preaching of the town’s only religious leader, Reverend Ford.
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Sunday preaching – Wikipedia – US Public Domain
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“FOR THE TIME WILL COME WHEN THEY WILL NOT ENDURE SOUND DOCTRINE;”
2nd Timothy 4:3
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Now, this movie (and many similar ones) has undoubtedly had a tremendous impact on the Christian community over the decades.
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And today’s preachers are usually very hesitant to engage in any so-called “fire-n-brimstone” preaching, as a result of Hollywood’s long-standing crusade against fundamentally biblical Christianity.
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Even “Christian” movies are usually very careful to avoid any fire-n-brimstone preaching.
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ABOVE PHOTO: church evangelist – Wikimedia – Public Domain
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THE “ETERNAL TORMENT” HERESY
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On the other hand, the Church has often been guilty in past decades, and even in past centuries, of attempting to scare parishioners, via loud and frightening preaching.
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And that horrible false-doctrine commonly referred to as, “Eternal Torment”, is still being used at times, to club the parishioners over the head, and to literally, “scare the Hell” out of them!
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And let’s face it! Many concerned Christian parents have likewise been guilty of sometimes attempting to coerce our children into obedience by various similar means.
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“IF THERE BE ANY VIRTUE…THINK ON THESE THINGS!”
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But having said all this, the Bible, through the Apostle, Paul, commands Christians…
…”whatsoever things are honest,
whatsoever things are just,
whatsoever things are pure,
whatsoever things are lovely,
whatsoever things are of good report;
if there be any virtue,
and if there be any praise,
think on these things.”
Philippians 4:8
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Yes, one very admirable characteristic of Pollyanna was her cheerfulness as she looked for the good, even in bad circumstances (this was highlighted more lucidly in the 1973 BBC version of the movie).
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“MARVEL NOT…IF THE WORLD HATE YOU!”
1st John 3:13
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And Christian parents need to fully realize that we just cannot force our families into Heaven!
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We must remember that Salvation is the gift of God!
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And so, society’s growing intolerant hatred of Christianity is actually becoming an assist for Christian parents to exercise greater restraint and even silence, in how we lead our family in a Heavenward direction.
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Thus, our current-day circumstances are now dictating that we can do little more than to imitate Pollyanna’s cheerfulness in our homes.
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And in the near future, anything beyond that may be risky for Christian parents.
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Protest – Anti-Christian rally in Chicago – cropped – Wikimedia
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“THE JUST SHALL LIVE BY HIS FAITH”
Habakkuk 2:4
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But we must not become disheartened!
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After all, the Bible commands us to live by the faith of Jesus Christ.
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And rather than by being authoritarians, we must silently, secretly, and steadfastly cling to the many “exceeding great and precious promises”…
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…promises which assure us that through our quiet, personal obedience, and unceasing cries for mercy, God can save our families!
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Family-Portrait – Wikimedia – cropped – Share-alike-License
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TO READ PART 5, CLICK HERE…
December 12 (The Gospel According To Pollyanna, Part 5: “Sorrow Is Better Than Laughter!?!”)
Pollyanna statue – cropped photo – Wikipedia – Creative Commons 2.0 license
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TODAY’S PRAYER…
“Dear Lord, help me to be wise as a serpent in regard to Satan’s deceptive tactics in his ongoing war against God’s people…
Prayer for USA – Wikimedia – Creative Commons Attribution 2.0
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READ MORE…
To explore deeper into this subject, please read…
August 7 (“The Perfect Pastor?”)“
or you may also read…
March 1st (A Designer Jesus!)
Question book magnify svg – Wikimedia – GNU license
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THE END
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TODAY’S HEAVENLY SIGN
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LOCATING THE REVELATION 12 DRAGON
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The Dragon Constellation can be located by finding Orion in winter months.
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The Dragon is to Orion’s left, and the Dragon’s mouth is right next to Orion’s shield.
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This Dragon’s mouth is the V-like constellation The Hyades Cluster, which is the very same constellation that comprises the head of Taurus the Bull.
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In other words, Hyades is also known as the head of Taurus the Bull.
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And Hyades is the mouth of this Dragon.
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The tip of the Dragon’s tail is composed of that star-cluster known as The Pleiades.
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The Pleiades is actually in the shape of a lion’s furry tassel tip of his tail.
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The sketch below shows this Pleiades as the tail tip.
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Now with aid of a dark starry night, you may begin to connect this mouth and the tail with a very long body in an oval shape.
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The front and back legs are very well-defined with stars.
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The front legs are made partially of Taurus.
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The back legs and rear fin are made of the Cetus Constellation.
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But the long oval-shaped body has relatively few stars, but can been seen, howbeit with a dark starry night.
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The four stars of the front fins are made partially of Taurus.
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This Dragon constellation appears in the eastern horizon about mid-summer in the pre-dawn hours, spewing his flood-waters northward toward the Woman of Revelation 12 (Woman in Travail).
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The Wave of Water is primarily composed of the Constellation Auriga.
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The are two more less bright stars which are closest to the Dragon’s mouth.
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These two dimmer stars are also part of this Wave of Water.
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READ MORE…
To explore deeper into this subject, please read… “Flood Waters of Satan-Introduction”…
…or you can also read… “The Dragon of Revelation 12 Constellation”
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TOMORROW…
December 12 (The Gospel According To Pollyanna, Part 5: “Sorrow Is Better Than Laughter!?!”)
Pollyanna statue – cropped photo – Wikipedia – Creative Commons 2.0 license
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90-MINUTE OPEN FORUM
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ALL‘NOBLE BEREANS’ (open-minded seekers of Bible truth) ARE ENCOURAGED TO LISTEN TO THIS DEBATE REGARDING WHETHER THE CHURCH-AGE HAS ENDED.
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CLICK HERE TO LISTEN…The Open Forum Harold Camping March 19, 2003
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ABOVE PICTURE: Holy Bible – cropped image – Wikimedia – Creative Commons Lic.