#time to start myth making the jewish people who survived or did uprisings or literally ANYTHING but the fucking nazis | Explore Tumblr Posts and Blogs

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You know as a horror fan "cultural Christianity" is such a useful term because as an atheist as well as a horror fan and a fan of haunted house stuff if it's done well I very, very quickly noticed how many horror movies are Christian propaganda. So few horror movies involving religion (which is a shocking amount of them btw) pick any religion that's not Christianity to center itself around and when they do that religion is bad and evil, not the cause of evil and the savior from it (because the demons may be Christian, but God and the bible are also the solutions in a way other religions aren't granted. Bonus points if it's an indigenous religion being portrayed as Evil and Bad).

Pretty much any exceptions I can think of to that rule use Judaism and the Holocaust as a backdrop and never in like a normal, the Holocaust is horrible way it's always playing on myths of Nazi Germany's experimentation on the Jewish population. Which I find highly troubling and disturbing, but regardless nothing like being a horror fan to convince you of cultural Christianity because no other genre leans on religion as a plot device so much unless it's straight up a Christian movie for a Christian audience using Christianity as it's main theme and through line.

#winters ramblings #side note i ALWAYS hear about how we learned SO MUCH about medicine and the body from nazi Germany and i KNOW that has to be #at least SOMEWHAT untrue because the methodologies nazis would have used in CONCENTRATION CAMPS do not seem #like theyd yeild USEFUL information about anything. people criticize studies now for being overly populated with undergrads #because THAT skews your results theres NO WAY the camps had conditions good enough to yeild useful information #and theres NO FUCKING WAY IN ALL HELL that nazis had good enough methodologies and treatments of their PRISONERS #to be getting any result worth using. maybe we learned a lot on how to TORTURE people but medical sciences??#i think body snatchers orobably taught us a lot LOT more than the fucked up things the nazis did to the jewish population #and i find it DEEPLY DEEPLY troubling that we seem to remember the nazis like the NAZIS want us to remember them #and not as the scum of the earth they were- they werent useful DOCTORS even if there were olenty of useful engineers but they werent good #engineers BECAUSE they were nazis they were just good at their jobs WHY do we attribute their intelligence to BEING A NAZI #if anything thats proof all their smart at is building shit but anyway something tells me nazi germany didnt teach us NEAR #as much about medical anything as the myths lead us all to believe and WHY are we myth making about FUCKING NAZIS #time to start myth making the jewish people who survived or did uprisings or literally ANYTHING but the fucking nazis #now on the flipside as a horror fan Christianity is SO BAKED IN to how certian genres of horror run #if you had a haunted house movie WITHOUT Christianity id be genuinely surprised. if it wasnt at least Judaism with Weird Holocaust shit #id be even MORE surprised. ive never seen a weesterm horror flick that centered around like. Sikh people or even Muslims #and youd think being an abrahamic religion Muslims would make the cut but no even THEY get shunted because brown #like you CANNOT convince me culture Christianity doesnt exist because as an athiest horror fan BOY do i know thats not true #its actually one of my LEAST favorite things about the horror genre and WHY i have a hard time with haunted house movies #sure i LOVE james wans work but its STILL uses Christianity as a plot device and i HATE Christianity in my horror cheerios #plus you got shows like supernatural who LITERALLY wrote a show of bible fanfiction and uts very clear they never read the bible #i know this because i have a good friend who is religious and even CHRISTIANS find the Christianity in that show baffling and overbearing #and hilariously inaccurate but still lmao. anyway cultural Christianity is 100% a thing as an athiest its IMPOSSIBLE not to notice #so i find it REALLY WEIRD that athiests deny its existence as if weve not been victims of it out whole lives #and religious people who arent Christian too!! we should team up to beat the christians back to where they should be!!#just as invisible as the rest of us OR the rest of us just as visible as christians!!

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