‘Duck Dynasty’ Star Urges Christians To Convert Atheist Friends With Nicolas Cage Movie

[big_dog]

One of the stars of TV’s “Duck Dynasty” urged Christians to take their non-believing friends to see an upcoming Nicolas Cage movie, saying it might convert them. Willie Robertson recorded a short promotional video that was posted Friday morning to the Facebook page set up for “Left Behind,” an upcoming feature film based on the popular religion-themed book series that depicts the end times.

“Like most Christians, my family and I can truly say that we’re excited about the soon return of Jesus, and I’m sure, if you’ve been watching the news lately, you know that that return could be any day from now,” Robertson said. He said the film, which he described as “an action-packed thriller that will take viewers on a wild ride to the day of the Rapture,” would encourage atheists and non-Christians to convert.

“It’s a warning to those, if it happened today, would be left behind, and I believe people are going to make that life-changing decision to follow Christ on the way home from the theater on Oct. 3,” Robertson said. “Let’s all make sure we bring some friends and family to see this movie – people who need to see to believe.” He then directed viewers to the film’s website, where he said they could find information on buying group tickets or purchasing merchandise such as “cool clothes.”

The movie is a remake of the 2002 version starring former “Growing Pains” sitcom star Kirk Cameron. Some conservative Christians complained about the casting of Cage, suspicious that he might be a non-believer – although “there is speculation that he is a Roman Catholic.” http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/09/05/duck-dynasty-star-urges-christians-to-convert-atheist-friends-with-nicolas-cage-movie/

[NightWatcher]

1. I don't want friends who can be swayed by a Nick Cage movie

I loved the line that there are suspicions that he's Roman Catholic.

In a time of heathens and atheists the christian fundies will allow a Catholic to pass.

[Initech]

16. I saw the trailer and my reaction was "this can't be real can it?".

If I had friends that wanted to go see it, I'd 've finding new friends ASAP.

[hunter]

41. Trailer here...

I'm guessing it's a movie about these aliens returning to Earth with sophisticated Star Trek transporter technology:

wikipedia

According to this new movie, these aliens prefer to serve human children.

Am I right?

[davidpdx]

44. I've seen some truley bizzare movies in my day

and that one takes the cake. I think I know someone who will see that one (based on a hunch), but I'm going to keep my mouth shut and see if the person says something about it.

[MohRokTah]

2. I have had Christians try to convert me in many ways.

I think trying to convert me with a lousy Nicholas Cage movie would be pretty much scraping the bottom of the barrel.

[NightWatcher]

4. If you don't convert, we'll make you watch Con Air...

Praise Jesus another member to our flock

[Scootaloo]

31. Puht tha bunneh baack in tha bawks

I love Nic Cage. i think he refuses to take himself seriously, and just wanders around set, chewing the scenery until they tranquilize him with bourbon.

[NightWatcher]

40. He is a snazzy dresser too

This was him at a Guns N Roses show

[Politicalboi]

3. WOW!

Is that all it takes. I'll pass thanks but no thanks. Besides I don't like Nicolas Cage movies.

[beam me up scottie]

5. Oh brother.

:

I wish the rapture would happen already, I'm tired of sharing the planet with these assholes.

[JaneyVee]

6. Nicholas Cage plays Nicholas Cage in every movie.

[hifiguy]

10. Just like John Wayne did.

Actors whose talents ran the gamut from A to B.

[Tom Ripley]

7. Nicolas Cage's career convinced me there is no god

Sorry Duckperson

[Logical]

28. Good one! nt

[muriel_volestrangler]

8. Everything a thinking person needs to know about 'Left Behind'

whether it's the book series, the previous film series, or the Cage remake.

http://www.patheos.com/blogs/slacktivist/category/left-behind/

In about 500 easy to read blog posts. In those, you will discover the blogger, Fred Clark, is an excellent all-round person (I'm an atheist, he's a Christian, and I love his writing about religion), and a good critic, and the authors of the books, Tim La Haye and Jerry Jenkins, are awful excuses for sentient beings, with no empathy, ability to imagine how people feel (eg they cannot see that the immediate disappearance of every child in the world under 12 would leave people feeling pretty unhappy), and anti-semitic, too.

No film based on their work will persuade any atheist. Or person from another religion. It's like saying that listening to Rush Limbaugh will persuade Democrats that the thinking, caring people are all Republicans. You have to be a True Believer with the brain the size of a peanut to be a Limbaugh or Left Behind fan.

[jmowreader]

9. jmowreader Urges Atheists to Convert Fundamentalist Friends With Godzilla Movie

"The notion that a remake of a movie no one went to is going to draw converts, or moviegoers for that matter, is ludicrous on its face," said jmowreader. "It's about as stupid as thinking just seeing Godzilla is going to turn anyone into an anti-nuclear activist or a climate-change believer - but Godzilla was a lot more fun than this other movie is going to be."

[hifiguy]

11. People have been waiting for Jesus

for nearly 2000 years. This just in - Like Godot, he ain't gonna show.

[Warpy]

24. He's certainly LATE

since he promised to return before the last of his disciples had died. Clergy have fudged on that one, saying that modern disciples count, too, but that's not what he said.

If he lived, he found out what everybody does when they die, that there is no way back to tell people what it's all about. It's a one way trip.

[dorkzilla]

12. Fear doesn't work on us the way it does on these fundie nutbags

I am not afraid of being "left behind" by your invisible sky dude. I don't need the threat of eternal damnation to make me treat people and animals with kindness, love and charity. I only respond to logic, reason and science.

I would be happy if your rapture would take you and the rest of your dick dynasty somewhere else.

[hifiguy]

19. If all the fundymentalpatients get ruptured, err,

raptured, there will probably be some nice cars and houses around to be liberated. And more beer for the rest of us.

[Contrary1]

34. ...and travel money too.

[dorkzilla]

38. So that means I will always be able to get a First Class upgrade when I fly????

and if Contrary1 is right (above) I can use that extra money for nicer hotels! Awesome! Welcome Jeebus!!!!!

[Thor_MN]

13. I generally like Nicholas Cage, but if Duck Dumbass is recommending it,

I'll pass...

[edgineered]

14. The good news for those unable to attend the initial showing!

Although you will no longer have the option of being flown away, the opportunity to be bussed still exists with proof of purchase of the blue ray.*

*A small supplication will be assessed as seat are limited.

[Lint Head]

15. Nicolas Cage swayed me away from the movie theater several times.

[muriel_volestrangler]

17. See, here’s the plan:

you put on your spiffy new Left Behind T-shirt (just $18.99 + $6 shipping) and matching baseball cap with the lofted embroidery (also $18.99) – and everyone will see that question, “Are You Ready?” and be intrigued.
...
And then you can share the gospel with them. You can answer, “Ready for the day that Jesus takes away all the righteous in the Rapture, leaving the rest of you behind for seven years of torment and anguish before you’re all slaughtered and damned to an eternity of conscious torture in Hell.”

“Please go on,” they’ll say. “Tell me more … is there some way I can escape this horrifying fate?”

And then you can teach them to pray the magic prayer. And then, after they say “In Jesus name, Amen” you can give them the link to this website — www.kerusso.com/leftbehind/products — and they’ll be able to buy their own T-shirts, hats, silicon wristbands, and 16-oz., stainless steel-lined, BPA-free tumblers with powerful graphics and messaging.

http://www.patheos.com/blogs/slacktivist/2014/09/05/are-you-ready-to-buy-a-t-shirt/

Because nothing says Real True Christian Believer like Merchandising Opportunities from the film's executive producer, Willie Robertson. You can't get into heaven without increasing the profits of Robertson, Inc. Everyone knows that.

[LongTomH]

33. That should be a silicone wristband......

.....meaning a silicone plastic wristband, actually a siloxane, based on the tetravalent metalloid silicon frequently used in semiconductors, like the chips in your computer. The two are often confused; but, please do not add to the confusion!

[Paladin]

18. I don't take advice from a right-wing fake hillbilly who wears the U.S. flag as a sweat-mop.

Fuck off, Willie Robertson, and take your miserable family and Nicholas Cage with you. Get a haircut and a shave, start wearing those polo shirts and khakis from the back of your closet again, and fade into oh-so-justified obscurity.

[JohLast]

22. sign me up

If having a beard and wearing a headban will give me $20,000,000.00, sign me up.

[geomon666]

20. If I'm going to see this with friends, it's to laugh at this shit heap.

That being said, of course I would never actually pay money to see this so instead I'll download it for free from the internet when it is available. I believe that's what Jesus would want me to do.

[alphafemale]

21. You mean...all the worst of the right wing haters will just....vanish?

I would then know there is a god.

Be she praised.

[clydefrand]

23. How many Christians have actually

studied their religion at college level? Probably now many, other than many of the ministers.
Spending 2 semesters in a required religion course in what eventually caused me to loose all belief in the Christian (or any other) religion. I grew up going to church 3 to 4 times a week. I never questioned why, we just did.
I saw too many people scream and carry on about 'drinking' (in Va., we have a state run liquor stores.) Well, guess who you could see going into our ABC store on Mondays (small town, highest per capita sales in the state at that time). And only on Sundays did one not cuss up a storm. Well, after studying religion in college, with every one of our reference books written my atheists. I asked the professor (who had a doctorate in religion) why, and his answer was because
atheists write more unbiased books than any one of faith does.
Well, that kind of did it for me.

[Manifestor_of_Light]

35. college religion courses can be quite interesting.

I went to a school that required 6 semester hours of religion. All the religion dept. professors had D.Div. s or the equivalent from Harvard or Princeton. That level of study is so far away from your average stupid bible thumping preacher, it's not even funny. I took Nature & Function of Religion which is the intro course. It blew my mind. Then I took Old Testament as History and learned about the JEDP sources & the 12 tribes.

These idiot preachers couldn't pass those courses. I'm more qualified than pimpleface Osteen to preach. he dropped out of Oral Roberts U. after one semester.

[Logical]

25. I always tell people who believe in God.......

"If there is a God he is doing a fucking terrible job running this place"

[hatrack]

26. . . . "the soon return of Jesus"?

Is that English, or is he speaking in tongues again?

[Peregrine]

27. We'll if JWs are right

Only 144,000 are getting in anyway.

[delete_bush]

39. The odds seem mighty slim...

Over a period of 2,000 years that would be an average of 72 per year.

[Dawson Leery]

29. Athiests as well as non-fundamentalists do NOT live in fear (of the myth)

that the petty Jehovah is waiting to strike down non-believers.

[Delmette]

30. After the Rapture

http://m.

Sounds good to me.

[Jokerman]

32. ATHEISTS TAKE HEED! Hell may not be real but NIC CAGE IS!

Threaten me with fictional places and characters all you want but the prospect of having to sit through Nic Cage in "Left Behind" freaks me right the hell out!

[GoCubsGo]

36. Cage must've really be desperate for work.

All he can get these days is a part in a "Left Behind" flick? Sad.

[DRoseDARs]

37. I enjoyed the book series for the drek it is. nt

[trumad]

42. What if rapture happens the day the movie opens?

Would that make it a box office dud?

[yuiyoshida]

43. Wait, are talking the Nicolas Cage who did

That's a leap, isn't it??

[AnnieBW]

45. They can do a double billing with his version of The Wicker Man

If you can stand it. :p

[Kalidurga]

46. Now I wish I had some Xian friends that might take me to dinner and a movie...

I think this could be loads of laughs if someone could do the whole movie as a Bad Lip Reading, but then it would probably be funny and make more sense.