From Page to Screen: "Bridge to Terabithia"

“The Bridge to Terabithia,” labels God as so loving that He’s just too busy running this big wide beautiful world to damn anyone. And, the fear of Hell coerces brain-dead Bible believing Christians into believing in Jesus. So, they hate the Bible’s message, because it imprisons them. But, freethinkers with open minds are free to do otherwise; and, so, enjoy the life that God really intends for them to have.
TBTT is a maudlin 21st Century redo of 3rd Century Gnostic philosophy: Wisdom (winsome freethinker Leslie) uses secret knowledge (imagination) to lead trapped mankind (repressed Christian Jess) into the pure spiritual world (art). Nice try, but no cigar. Dead fish still stink like dead fish even if you dress them in baby clothes.
Sentimentality fogs up the damnation issue, too. God doesn’t capriciously damn little girls; He damns morally responsible people, who have once-for-all refused to honor Him as God—a cosmic insult to his holiness. And, rejecting Christ only compounds the issue. By rejecting Christ, TBTT rejects God’s unmerited mercy that sent His Son to take our just punishment on Himself. His sacrifice satisfies His Father’s justice and allows us to enjoy His Father’s mercy. So, real Christians love Him, because He first loved us—and we glory in every nanosecond of our newfound, unmerited, liberating relationship with Him that comes from trusting in Christ and His saving work. Freethinkers can keep the illusions of TBTT; Christians have the eternal reality of God’s eternal love. And, if the devil doesn’t like it, he can sit on a tack!

I hope to never cease to be amazed at the zeal many fellow Christians have to send people to Hell, even pre-teen fictional girls. Thank God that He's a God of Grace AND Love AND Holiness AND Wrath.

HOLLYWOOD’S NEW LOW - This time in the arms of “Christians” and embraced by a movie hungry world definitely going to Hell but unable to see it. However, a new twist for a new age: God is cool and loving, but the bible is stupid. A fare offered to kids of all ages in pseudo-Narnia style. Conflict and confusion begin on the way home from church: 3 innocents introducing childlike questions in a not-so innocent plot. It ends with the Dad, the highest moral, with not-so high morals, instructing and consoling his sad child with genuine new-age doctrine. Here, God wouldn’t send an open-minded, Christ rejecting child to Hell after the child died – or did she? Thus the fantasy unfolds amidst flung Christian doctrines. For Hollywood this is an awesome and powerful duping weapon of the future, unfurled now in the face of good Christian families. To the families, it’s disappointing and confusing and a good indicator of what is to come. However, we Christians should know; just don’t take the kids