They both reject the trinity and believe in a singular God
They both follow the teachings of a prophet that came centuries later
They both have their own religious texts
A serious question, and I don't mean this in am argumentative way
Why should we call Mormons Christian, but not Muslims?
They both believe in Jesus and follow his teachings, but have beliefs about Jesus that are inconsistent with other followers of Jesus
@jpodhoretz Why evil? It seems like a generic kid's movie script that got repurposed to include Dr Suess IP
It's bland, and it'll probably flop, but I don't see what's wrong with it besides just being not very good
As someone who covered the region for a dozen years for the WSJ, and reported in astonishment how even under conservative Pres Ronald Reagan USAID was funding socialist projects in Latin America, I can assure you that this is ๐ฏ accurate.
I am starting to resign myself to the idea that the quality sci-fi TV we had in the 1990s and early 2000s, multiple excellent shows of Stargate and Star Trek, plus Babylon 5, etc. is not coming back for a while.
The entertainment industry is almost completely captured by cultural Marxism. The guiding philosophy behind most entertainment products now is deconstruction and inversion of everything that is good, true or beautiful.
Years of DEI-based hiring has put activists and ideologues in charge where artists should be working.
The new people see their job not as producing art, or at least decent entertainment, but ideological re-education. They fancy themselves to be on the right side of history. They are true believers, and they are not standing down, even now.
I do believe that the pendulum is already swinging back hard, from the civilization-destroying toxicity, racism and nihilism of the culturally dominant Marxist left. But for now, the Marxist left is not dead, not by a long shot. It is barely in hibernation.
The movement is currently counting on a Democrat winning the White House in 2028. They expect to recapture political power, and then finish what Obama/Biden started. They think that their final victory remains just around the corner.
The attitudes of the entertainment industry reflect that. The industry is not course-correcting after the disastrous failure of wokified former money-printing franchises like Star Trek, Star Wars or Lord of the Rings; it is doubling down. Products are made for a "modern audience" that does not exist, but that people in charge are hoping to create.