Category:Christian Media: Difference between revisions

Works by Christians, for Christians, and the Creators who make them. Many of these are presented as The Moral Substitute for some variety of The New Rock and Roll that would otherwise corrupt the souls and pollute the precious bodily fluids of the faithful, so that they can feel like they participate in the greater culture without sinning as badly as they would by indulging in more secular works. Other examples are evangelical works, tracts, essays or pamphlets intended to convince the sinner to come (back) to God. A few are outright propaganda, with all that entails. And some are just regular works heavily informed by the creator's faith, often in a case of religiously-flavored Write What You Know.

The more extreme examples of Christian Media can come across as ham-handed and unsubtle to those who don't follow the faith (or don't follow it in the same way as the creators do). But every once in a while a "Christian" work can gain an unexpected popularity in the greater culture. For those believers who pride themselves on their separatism, this can pose a difficult problem: if it's being enjoyed by non-Christians, is it a good thing, because it gets the Message across to more people who need to hear it? Or is the greater success proof that the Message has been corrupted or diluted -- or worse, was never there at all?

Please note that this category is for works from the 20th Century and onward, which are often created specifically as a reaction and response to (or attempt to exploit for evangelistic purposes) the popularity of some corresponding work, genre or medium in the general culture. While works like The Divine Comedy are unarguably Christian in intent and execution, their intent was not to let True Believers™ indulge themselves in a popular form of entertainment without endangering their Immortal Souls™.