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YEA! Watching R rated movies lowers faith:

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http://phys.org/news/2013-10-r-rated-movies-lessens-importance-faith.html

So there is a positive side to r rated movies after all!

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Lol, you needed that news to tell you that there's something positive about R-rated movies?

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Originally posted by sonhouse
http://phys.org/news/2013-10-r-rated-movies-lessens-importance-faith.html

So there is a positive side to r rated movies after all!
Two Jumbo Popcorns with Extra Butter, please........

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Originally posted by sonhouse
http://phys.org/news/2013-10-r-rated-movies-lessens-importance-faith.html

So there is a positive side to r rated movies after all!
I have only seen three of the top 100 grossing R rated movies, cannot say if its a matter of faith, but they on the whole simply do not appeal to me, I prefer art movies to be honest.

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Have you only seen three of the films on this list, Robbie? That's a shame. Many great movies here, I think.

1 The Passion of the Christ
2 The Matrix Reloaded
3 The Hangover
4 The Hangover Part II
5 Beverly Hills Cop
6 The Exorcist
7 Ted
8 Saving Private Ryan
9 300
10 Wedding Crashers
11 Terminator 2: Judgment Day
12 Gladiator
13 Pretty Woman
14 There's Something About Mary
15 Air Force One
16 Rain Man
17 The Matrix
18 Bridesmaids
19 Hannibal
20 Django Unchained
21 The Heat
22 The Firm
23 Scary Movie
24 Fatal Attraction
25 Jerry Maguire
26 Beverly Hills Cop II
27 Sex and the City
28 Rambo: First Blood Part II
29 Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines
30 Knocked Up
31 We're the Millers
32 Gran Torino
33 Lethal Weapon 2
34 True Lies
35 American Pie 2
36 Lethal Weapon 3
37 National Lampoon's Animal House
38 A Few Good Men
39 Slumdog Millionaire
40 The Blair Witch Project
41 The Matrix Revolutions
42 The King's Speech
43 Bad Boys II
44 Platoon
45 21 Jump Street
46 Good Will Hunting
47 The Conjuring
48 The Green Mile
49 Ransom
50 Argo
51 The Godfather
52 Wanted
53 Identity Thief
54 The Rock
55 Troy
56 The Departed
57 Silver Linings Playbook
58 The Silence of the Lambs
59 Lethal Weapon 4
60 American Gangster
61 American Beauty
62 An Officer and a Gentleman
63 Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan
64 Coming to America
65 Shutter Island
66 Prometheus
67 Safe House
68 Erin Brockovich
69 Traffic
70 The Birdcage
71 Good Morning, Vietnam
72 The Bodyguard
73 Superbad
74 Speed
75 Inglourious Basterds
76 Blazing Saddles
77 Total Recall
78 Fahrenheit 9/11
79 Basic Instinct
80 Die Hard 2: Die Harder
81 Horrible Bosses
82 Jackass 3-D
83 8 Mile
84 Double Jeopardy
85 District 9
86 Magic Mike
87 The Patriot
88 The Rocky Horror Picture Show
89 It's Complicated
90 Face/Off
91 The Hangover Part III
92 Enemy of the State
93 Porky's
94 The Last Samurai
95 Tropic Thunder
96 The 40-Year-Old Virgin
97 One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
98 A Time to Kill
99 Black Hawk Down
100 Pulp Fiction

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Originally posted by Great King Rat
Have you only seen three of the films on this list, Robbie? That's a shame. Many great movies here, I think.

1 The Passion of the Christ
2 The Matrix Reloaded
3 The Hangover
4 The Hangover Part II
5 Beverly Hills Cop
6 The Exorcist
7 Ted
8 Saving Private Ryan
9 300
10 Wedding Crashers
11 Terminator 2: Judgment Day
12 Gladiato ...[text shortened]...
97 One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
98 A Time to Kill
99 Black Hawk Down
100 Pulp Fiction
Is THAT all you got?🙂 BTW, why wasn't Lethal weapon 1,2,3 on your list?

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No, this is the top 100 grossing R rated movies. There's more on http://boxofficemojo.com/alltime/domestic/mpaa.htm

Weird to see movies like Pretty Woman and Hannibal on the same list.

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Originally posted by Great King Rat
No, this is the top 100 grossing R rated movies. There's more on http://boxofficemojo.com/alltime/domestic/mpaa.htm

Weird to see movies like Pretty Woman and Hannibal on the same list.
Yeah, they stretch the R rating for sure!

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Originally posted by Great King Rat
Have you only seen three of the films on this list, Robbie? That's a shame. Many great movies here, I think.

1 The Passion of the Christ
2 The Matrix Reloaded
3 The Hangover
4 The Hangover Part II
5 Beverly Hills Cop
6 The Exorcist
7 Ted
8 Saving Private Ryan
9 300
10 Wedding Crashers
11 Terminator 2: Judgment Day
12 Gladiato ...[text shortened]...
97 One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
98 A Time to Kill
99 Black Hawk Down
100 Pulp Fiction
Yes I've seen Beverly hills cop, Rambo first blood II, Slumdog millionaire, the Godfather, Blazing saddles and One flew over the cuckoos nest, sorry i made a mistake, I've seen six. I have never seen any of the matrix, hangover, lethal weapon etc etc, they just don't appeal to me.

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I've seen 67 of the movies on this list (actually I counted 33 I did not see), and not only is my faith extremely important to me but I can also say that whether or not I watch an R-rated movie has nothing to do with my faith, or my perception of it. It seems that whoever did this research not only jumped to some conclusions that do not seem altogether warranted, but it seems they must have started with a biased supposition to begin with. As far as the article goes, I found the first and second sentences of the article somewhat at odds with each other, meaning I find very little correlation between them.

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Originally posted by Suzianne
I've seen 67 of the movies on this list (actually I counted 33 I did not see), and not only is my faith extremely important to me but I can also say that whether or not I watch an R-rated movie has nothing to do with my faith, or my perception of it. It seems that whoever did this research not onl ...[text shortened]... f the article somewhat at odds with each other, meaning I find very little correlation between them.
You're not really criticizing this research on nothing but your own experience, are you??

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Originally posted by Great King Rat
You're not really criticizing this research on nothing but your own experience, are you??
In fairness, if you are examining a theory which sounds fishy at face value, and then the quoted examples not only do not resonate, but seem totally at odds with your own experiences, you are not very likely to look deeper, are you?

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On the contrary, I'd think if it seems totally at odds with your own experiences (and the subject is important to you) you'd become more interested to find out just what the hell the author is talking about.

Next to that, Suzianne jumps to unwarranted conclusions and seems to have started from a biased supposition thus doing exactly that which she accuses the author(s) of doing.

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Originally posted by sonhouse
Yeah, they stretch the R rating for sure!
I suppose prostitution and cannibalism are equally bad :-)

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Originally posted by sonhouse
http://phys.org/news/2013-10-r-rated-movies-lessens-importance-faith.html

So there is a positive side to r rated movies after all!
Not only watching movies, but Television, news, etc., will weaken a Christians faith.
It is contrary to what God says, it dishes out fears in buckets, and a Christian should watch very little of the garbage that comes across the TV and the theater.

As a man thinks in his heart, so is he. Why fill the mind with fear and doubt?

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