Culture and Politics - Creative Control of the Reformation
Written by Douglas Wilson
Monday, 23 April 2012
I recently caused a small stir on Facebook by saying this:
"One of the greatest aesthetic and
arististic gifts the world ever received was the casting down of images
in the Protestant Reformation."
I thought it might be good for me to explain what was behind that comment, at least a little bit. . . .
I have no problem with evangelicals receiving criticism for producing schlock. That is what criticism (rightly conceived) is for. What I cannot abide is schlock criticism -- memes that make no sense getting endlessly repeated as though they were some kind of wisdom. One of those memes is that evangelicals are unique in their ability to produce this stuff. Anybody who says this cannot have been in a video rental store recently. Evangelicals make bad movies because making good movies is hard, which turns out to be the same reason why people generally make bad movies. Evangelicals make bad movies for the same reason evangelicals have ten toes -- they are people and people tend to generate lots of crapola.
