'Braveheart' Becomes Role Model for Christian Men

OH SWOON!

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Movies like "Braveheart" and "Legends of the Fall" are on the viewing list for men in a growing Christian movement that calls for them to throw off their "nice guy" personas and emulate warriors.

The book which inspired the movement, John Eldredge's "Wild at Heart," has already sold 1.5 million copies in English and been translated into 16 languages, most recently Korean.

Eldredge believes many Christian men have become bored, "really nice guys" and invites them to rediscover passion by viewing their life's mission as having a battle to fight, an adventure to live and a beauty to rescue.

"The modern era has brought up immense conveniences but at what price. The human heart is desperate for something more than a quicker serving of popcorn," Eldredge said in a recent interview.

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For fuck's sake, Gibson had the battle of Stirling Bridge WITHOUT A GODDAMN BRIDGE.

What's wrong with "nice guy personas"? Is being a warrior now fashionable since the War Pretzledent is "Christian"?

are not gonna be good Christian Soldiers going off to kill Muslims so the Bush family can get richer.

Onward Christian Soliders.

Those glassy eyes are very erie.

It's OK to be a warrior. No, really, now let's git us some Ayrabs.

and, when were they ever nice?

And to think that pseudo-spiritual crap like the 'The Way of the Peaceful Warrior' once bothered me.

It's too "over the top" they say.

bitchy I censored my own post.

fought against the occupying warlords in a quest to be free from their intrusion in their way of life? I mean don't they see the irony in emulating him? Isn't he an insurgent or a terrorists according to their wacky definitions?

Having them run around in skirts or nude-ish colored blue with woad and beat strangers with wooden weaponry...isn't that their secret little desire?

Hey, the best part is: no change in their 'Christianity' is involved. But we already knew that.

No, Mr. blue-faced kilt wearer, I would NOT like to
do business with you!!!

Not that there's any point in examining the similarities anymore.

It's all downhill from here.

It's over the top, don't you know? /sarcasm

it's the drum beaters again

lololololololol

oh golly

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...upon which Ignatius Loyola and the early Jesuits often drew, the Milites Christi, the soldiers of Christ.

to give and not to count the cost;
to fight and not to heed the wounds;
to toil, and not to seek for rest;
to labor, and to ask for no reward,
save that of knowing that we do your will,
through Jesus Christ our Lord.

Used to say it at school thirty-some years ago.

It was the favorite prayer of some of my contemporaries, one of whom spent a few years right out of college as a teacher at a Catholic school in the then-Rhodesia. One of his duties was to ride in a Toyota pickup a hundred meters in front of the school bus, in case of minea or ambush.

I've never complained about chaperoning dances as a result.

they have the V chip in their brain.

I think I did a nice job of subverting it:evilgrin:

I simply redirected the message. Instead of "become a warrior KILL KILL KILL n00k the terra-ists," I redirected the discussion to a broader, more Christlike "Stand up for righteousness" approach. I then pointed out (some) of how the church has been corrupted by money, and talked quite a bit about Jesus and the moneychangers. I said that's what the book meant instead of n00king and killing.

Then the other fundies in the Bible study got to see me in action when $INclair wanted to air Stolen Honor--I announced a boycott until the "poser" (what Eldridge calls losers) is forced out of office. As they knew how much I just LOOOOOOOOOOOVED Taco Bell (one of $INclair's advertisers, for those of you who don't know), they could only react with "wow."

Now I'm in the process of educating them about the Sauron-like aspects of Walmart. Less killing, more WWJD.:)

"it was the warrior in me", quoted the moron of 4 and one battered wife.

The police are suddenly going to be making a lot of overtime because of this.

Sounds like they are psyching themselves up for war and more war.

I mean, seriously - Robert Bly said about as much with his book "Iron John," now about 15 years old. From the same time period would be Sam Keen's "Fire in the Belly."

Off to read Iron John again after a 12 year hiatus. I'm sure he makes more sense than the burgeoning Eldredge "Wild at Heart" movement. I'll eventually read Eldredge's book, just to figure out how much of the original he actually understood before co-opting it for his own agenda.

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I imagine he will fall from Christian grace with this one. Boudica was a pagan, celtic warrior Queen.

Didn't he say some complimentary words for F9/11 that sent them all into a tizzy?

and they'll somehow triumph in their pain?

Am I the only person that finds it creepy that Mel Gibson manages to incorporate graphic images of torture in most of his movies?

fat asses and run around the woods or something?

Unfortunately that's us, DOH!