Huh. I have to admit I am unaware of all of that (although I could sort of tell that Emily Rose was a proselytization vehicle anyway), but there is definitely tension in Western SFF/H between Christianity and atheism, particularly since so many conservatives in the genre seem to be non-religious libertarians.
I guess from my agnostic/who-the-fuck-knows perspective, "religious horror movies" - or even "ghost" movies with Christian influences, like Amityville - have always seemed fairly, well, Christian. It doesn't bother me mostly (Emily Rose started to grate, however) because they revolve more around hell and evil than they do around the light - and personally, I am more convinced of the existence of the dark than the light, for various reasons that I think Téa Obreht touched on well in "Twilight of the Vampires" - that in highly superstitious developing countries, the light is just a ward against the dark.
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Date: 2011-01-06 06:24 pm (UTC)I guess from my agnostic/who-the-fuck-knows perspective, "religious horror movies" - or even "ghost" movies with Christian influences, like Amityville - have always seemed fairly, well, Christian. It doesn't bother me mostly (Emily Rose started to grate, however) because they revolve more around hell and evil than they do around the light - and personally, I am more convinced of the existence of the dark than the light, for various reasons that I think Téa Obreht touched on well in "Twilight of the Vampires" - that in highly superstitious developing countries, the light is just a ward against the dark.