#kirk cameron

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Hey, just a heads up that will be important to know if you frequent your local library (in the USA)!!!

If you hear about your local library hosting a book reading for ‘brave books’ or ‘kirk cameron’ on august 5th— know that there’s a 98% chance it is not a library sponsored event.

Basically, kirk cameron is one of those ‘i need to win the war on woke!’ people who writes children’s books for just that purpose. He, in an effort to spread information about his books in the past, tried to hold book talks in which he broke library policies in order to do so (boy didn’t even try to reserve a meeting room)

….and he is now declaring his ability to successfully reserve meeting rooms and follow policies as ‘winning over the libraries that had denied him’ 🙄

Now on august 5th, he’s calling on people all across the country to reserve rooms in libraries to have these book talks about these books.

He’s saying it’s just to share the books but basically given his history of comments its clearly him wanting to cause tension between the public, and public libraries. Like a whole ‘i dare you to turn us down, and i dare citizens to get mad at us’ type of thing.

Public libraries are supposed to be 100% neutral. Just as we cannot and should not ban books, we cannot and should not ban anyone from our meeting rooms. The breakdown of neutrality will always lead to a bad path.

These events are not library sponsored however, we have not coordinated them, no effort on the library’s end has been put into them, and we are not advertising them.

A detail the people who reserved the room at my library are conveniently leaving out, despite being told they need to…

And now a counter protest is being planned for my library.

So please, if you hear or see anything about this happening at your local library, and you hear people getting upset about it, try to provide further context to them.

Often times, your local library IS a safe space. Librarians tend to be some super forward thinking folks, and many many library workers are upset about this, but we need to remain neutral to avoid legal issues.

The guy organizing this is just an asshole who knows that and is trying to make you think otherwise.

Here’s an article for more info if anyone wants it:

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My friends and I are rewatching a bunch of Christian films from my childhood and we completed the original Left Behind trilogy the other day. Here were my observations

I do think it's funny that the plot essentially begins with GMOs. GMOs are bad because more people being fed means world peace and globalism. That is bad.

"I'm Buck Williams and I'm standing in a wheat field" is now doomed to be repeated within my friend group for at least the next two years.

The antichrist's name is Nikolai Carpathia. He has the accent of a guy mimicking a Russian accent. This feels on par with JK Rowling naming her one Asian character "Cho Chang".

The character names also include (aside from the aforementioned antichrist and Kirk Cameron's character) Rayford Steele, Chloe, and Patty. Somehow it has the aura of a porno.

Despite the only demographic to be exclusively raptured is children under the age of 10, this fact is pretty much ignored.

Kirk Cameron's character (Buck) confronts police officers who are shooting at looters and teenagers for lacking compassion. By today's standards, this is woke propaganda.

I'm pretty sure the prior thing is to show that Buck is a good and pure soul who just needs to read a Bible to be fully redeemed because how else can you have a non-Christian protagonist in a movie like this. Or maybe this is to show that he's misguided and worldly. However, despite being a hot, sexy, prolific journalist, the movie also points out that he is a virgin.

The alleged romantic tension between Buck and pilot-not-porn-star Rayford Steele's daughter is painful to watch because Kirk Cameron will not kiss anyone other than his wife. There's a lot of awkward side hugs and leaving room for Jesus. Given that they end up getting married later, this is amusing to me.

These movies really want you to know two things: World Peace Is Bad, and Jews Are Bad. There are direct plot points specifically about converting Jewish people to Christianity so that they cannot usher in the rule of the antichrist.

I think it's really funny that, despite TV and the internet existing during the time this series takes place, the connection between the rapture prophecies/fanfics and The Fucking Rapture is only discovered by our protagonists and a handful of other random guys. I think a mass disappearance of certain branches of Christianity and children would provoke some kind of doubt and curiosity, but no. That's bad for plot. Instead, the whole world goes straight to "y'know what? Let's just get rid of all religion at once. Forever." This is because all other religions are made from faithless heathens who just really hate Christians, and since there are no longer Christians, they no longer have to Do Religion. I guess.

I also think it's funny that the main characters, though they themselves were convinced to convert because of the rapture, do not use the rapture as a means to convert the masses. They jump straight to bunker church and secret Bible brigades. When they do successfully convert others, it is either by trotting out the tired, "YOU THINK THIS WORLD WAS AN ACCIDENT???" Case for Christ nonsense, or basically threatening their victim with damnation.

Case in point, Rayford Steele talks a guy out of suicide by reminding him that he will never see his wife and child again if he goes through with it. Suicide = Straight To Hell.

There's a scene where the antichrist like... tries to "test" Rayford Steele by revealing his uber spoopy ghost face and seeing if he reacts. Because I guess the uber spoopy ghost face only works on believers. Te uber spoopy ghost face is his figure showing up in infrared, then his face stretching out cartoonishly, and his eyes turning black. This scared me as a child. It is the second funniest part of the movie.

Also, the title of the second movie being "Left Behind: Tribulation Force" is giving big "Electric Boogaloo" energy.

The antichrist reveals of the evil Global Community organization to the protagonists by handing them a piece of loose leaf printer paper with a logo that I would've made in the computer lab in 2005. This is done to the tune of sinister and dramatic music. This is the funniest part of the movie.

The third movie begins with the introduction of The President. It was previously stated that the president had been raptured. There was no mention of presidents up until this point. I know the line of succession exits but it really felt like they just forgot.

Oh yeah...the Pope was also raptured because he was secretly protestant.

Buck marries Rayford Steele's daughter at the same time Rayford Steele marries a random blonde lady. It feels weird and icky, which is furthered by the fact that the now married daughter will henceforth be referred to as "our girl" by both of these men for the rest of the movie.

We also had to stop the movie several times due most of the female cast consisting of skinny white blonde ladies. We could not tell the difference between any of them except for by their eyeliner. If she wears dark eyeliner, she's a whore.

Due to the plot involving the release of a virus that mainly only affects Christians, this film was definitely the most fun to dissect.

The virus is stored in badly CGId glowy green goo bottles, which for a series that has tried very hard to be serious, was awfully cartoony.

This movie does not give a fuck about the protagonists. This movie is about the president. I'm pretty sure this is because the protagonists, who are Christian, are no longer allowed to commit murder. The president is not a Christian, so he gets to use a gun.

The president has random warehouses to do casual interrogations in wherever and whenever he wants. It is clear that the creators were really struggling to make due with the set.

We know the antichrist is bad because he wants to take everyone's nukes. The president's main goal in this movie is to keep the nukes.

Back in the side plot, it turns out that the Christians are getting infected with green goo disease because the antichrist hid it in their Bibles. As the protagonists drown in guilt, the suspense of the plot really starts to fall apart. Their entire goal is to Get More People Into Heaven, and in this series, reading the Bible will automatically make anyone a Christian (the Bible's words cannot be resisted). If anything, they just fast-tracked a bunch of people into heaven, and they no longer have to endure the next seven years of apocalypse.

We should've all watched these movie pre-COVID. The only person who wears a mask and gloves is the antichrist. The protagonists also mention avoiding vaccines and relying on God/sacrificing themselves instead. This movie predicted 2020.

The super advanced green goo virus has an instacure antidote. Fucking red wine. This seems like a helluva lot of oversight to hand the "drinks red wine as part of religious rituals" group a virus that can be instacured by red wine.

WW3 starts. Somehow, this does not cause a nuclear winter.

The antichrist discovers that he can force-choke people.

The president suicide-bombs the antichrist's tower in order to "slow him down". Given that the antichrist cannot be killed and cell phones exist, I have no idea what exactly that was supposed to do.

As someone who grew up fully believing that Obama was the antichrist and Muslim (which is conservative for "literally a member of Al-Queda/ISIS").... and Black but they didn't say that part out loud), it was interesting in retrospect to watch this movie unfold. The president in this movie is a Black, non-Christian man who is initially for world peace, but then converts to Christianity and suicide-bombs the antichrist. We all have different interpretations of this, but we do agree that they would not have made that specific set of choices today. That said, my interpretation is the correct one /hj

[spurgie-cousin]

Do y'all remember when Kirk Cameron (one of the most annoying Christian lunatics on this planet) took two of his adopted daughters to Jessa and Ben Seewald's wedding to show them what a "real" Christian wedding looked like? I find it incredibly amusing that one of those said daughters got married AND divorced in less than 4 years!

The list of people I'd be willing to realistically fist fight is small, but for Kirk or Candace Cameron baby it's on sight

[oldshowbiz]

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BeCaUsE tHe bIbLe sAiD sO! 🥴

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Kirk Cameron dancing with his new bride Chelsea Noble on their wedding day on July 20,1991

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December 14, 1986 - Shannen Doherty with (top, L-R) Nicole Eggert, Kirk Cameron, and Angela Leo; and with Christina Applegate, at an unknown event.

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SHOW ME THAT SMILE!

(By Kyle Freakin’ Kenyon / IG: @kylefreakinkenyon)

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Kirk Cameron

(Photo by ABC Photo Archives/Disney General Entertainment Content via Getty Images)

#90ssitcom #80stvshow #classictvshows #growingpains #90stv #80ssitcoms #sitcoms #kirkcameron

[captainsvscaptains]

I may not need this, but just in case...

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kirk cameron fan's bedroom stock photo

[oldshowbiz]

1989.

Anti-Prejudice.

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