The movie SINNERS is one Example of Hollywood Hating Christians While Being Extremely Racist…
I came across a VERY POPULAR movie being pushed by Hollywood, called “Sinners”, and it struck me not just as offensive, but deeply troubling. Once again, it feels like the world is taking aim at at Christians, and yes, at white believers like me who are trying to live with integrity and compassion in a time of chaos.
This film doesn’t just mock faith—it vilifies it. It paints Christians as monsters, caricatures, “the problem,” as if believing in God is something dark or evil. How did we come to a place where Hollywood can openly call good evil and evil good without shame?
“Woe to those who call evil good and good evil, who put darkness for light and light for darkness.” — Isaiah 5:20
It’s not just the content—it’s the spirit behind it. This movie seems to twist familiar stories and symbols to serve an agenda of division and mockery. And honestly, Lord, it hurts. I know art isn’t always kind to faith, but this feels targeted, as if being a Christian—or even just being who I am—is enough to earn the title of “enemy.”
And if I’m being honest, I’m also a little angry. Because this isn’t creativity. It’s imitation. A cheap copy of From Dusk Till Dawn, but wrapped in spiritual mockery and packaged as edgy entertainment. I wonder: Do they know what they’re doing? Or are their hearts so hardened that this is just normal now—praising violence, mocking faith, erasing truth?
“They are darkened in their understanding and separated from the life of God because of the ignorance that is in them due to the hardening of their hearts.” — Ephesians 4:18
Lord, I don’t want bitterness to take root in me. That’s not who You’ve called me to be. Help me see these things not as attacks to fear, but as reminders of how much the world still needs You. If they hate truth, it’s because they don’t yet know the Truth that sets us free.
Still, I need Your strength. Because being misrepresented and mocked isn’t easy. And watching the culture drift further away from You is heartbreaking. I want to respond with grace, not resentment—with discernment, not cynicism. Let my heart break for what breaks Yours—but let it also burn with the light of Your love.
“Blessed are those who are persecuted because of righteousness, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.” — Matthew 5:10
So tonight, I give You my frustration. I hand over the weariness. I ask You to fill me again with compassion—not just for those who mock, but for those who are blindly following the world’s version of truth. I pray for the writers, the producers, the actors involved in projects like this. May their hearts be stirred, may their eyes be opened, and may they come to know the One they so carelessly misrepresent.
And Lord—please help me to keep walking in love, even when it’s mocked. Help me to keep speaking truth, even when it’s twisted. Help me to shine light, even when darkness tries to drown it out. Because You are still on the throne, and no film, no media, no cultural trend can ever change that.
In Your mercy and power I trust,
Amen.
A Prayer for Faithful Storytelling in Hollywood
Heavenly Father,
You are the Creator of all things, the Author of truth, beauty, and redemption. We thank You for the power of storytelling, for the gift of film and media, and for the many creative voices You have placed in the world.
Lord, we come to You with concern for the direction of much of today’s entertainment. We grieve the ways in which Your name is misused, Your people are misrepresented, and Your truth is ignored or distorted. We ask that You stir the hearts of writers, directors, producers, and artists to seek what is noble, pure, and true.
We pray that Hollywood would be a place not only of creativity but of conscience. Raise up believers in the industry—strong, humble, and wise—to shine Your light in dark places. Give them courage to speak truth with love, and to create films that inspire hope, honor faith, and glorify You.
Transform hearts, Lord—those behind the camera and those in front of the screen. Let Your Spirit move through the arts, awakening a longing for truth, beauty, and goodness that only You can satisfy.
We pray this in the name of Jesus Christ, our Savior and Redeemer.
Amen.
What is this hateful movie about…..
Set in 1932 Mississippi, Sinners follows twin brothers Smoke and Stack (both portrayed by Michael B. Jordan), World War I veterans who return to their hometown of Clarksdale after years spent working for the Chicago Outfit. Using money stolen from gangsters, they purchase a sawmill from racist landowner Hogwood to establish a juke joint for the local Black community. Their cousin Sammie, an aspiring guitarist, joins them despite opposition from his pastor father Jedidiah, who warns that blues music is supernatural.
As the brothers recruit other staff—including pianist Delta Slim, singer Pearline (with whom Sammie becomes enamored), Smoke’s estranged wife Annie as cook, local Chinese shopkeepers Grace and Bo as suppliers, and field worker Cornbread as bouncer—their establishment becomes a hub for the community. However, tensions arise as Stack reconnects with his ex-girlfriend Mary, who passes for white and resents Stack for abandoning her when he left for Chicago. Smoke and Annie argue over her belief in the occult, as Annie insists her practices kept the twins safe, but Smoke bitterly reminds her of the loss of their infant daughter.Wikipedia
The film delves into themes of racial tension where white people and Christians are the devil!
🎬 Credits
- Director/Writer/Producer: Ryan Coogler
- Producers: Zinzi Coogler, Sev Ohanian
- Cinematography: Autumn Durald Arkapaw
- Editor: Michael P. Shawver
- Composer: Ludwig Göransson
- Studio: Proximity Media
- Distributor: Warner Bros. PicturesTime+7People.com+7IMDb+7Wikipedia+1Decider+1Decider+1Wikipedia+1
🌟 Cast
- Michael B. Jordan – Smoke / Stack
- Hailee Steinfeld – Annie
- Miles Caton – Sammie
- Jack O’Connell – Hogwood
- Wunmi Mosaku – Delta Slim
- Delroy Lindo – Cornbread
- Jayme Lawson – Pearline
The Christian Tech-Nerd 
I guess a movie I should avoid just rather stay home and just read the good book.
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“For the time will come when people will not put up with sound doctrine. Instead, to suit their own desires, they will gather around them a great number of teachers to say what their itching ears want to hear.”
2 Timothy 4:3 NIV
To know for sure if our words make us teachers of truth or teachers sharing what Christian audiences want to hear depends on to what spirit the words appeal.
Here is the other side of the issue:
“Preach the word; be prepared in season and out of season; correct, rebuke and encourage—with great patience and careful instruction.”
2 Timothy 4:2 NIV
If we are encouraged by pointing out the sins of unbelievers who cannot do any better, then we are appealing to our own carnal nature trying to exalt ourselves. This used to be called holier-than-thou preaching.
Our spiritual battle is not won by declaring a sinner a sinner, but by living and sharing a life that is worthy, not to make sinners feel guilty, but rather to show that One Who knew no sin bore our sin and faith in him frees us from guilt and shame no matter what we’ve done. Condemnation of the sinner even by a saved sinner is above our pay grade. Jesus came not to condemn, but save (John 3:17). Christ asks us to follow his lead.
Messages that the Church needs to hear are rebuke for thinking like the world, exhortation to love God and our fellow man , and encouragement that God does not see our unrighteousness, but the righteousness of God.
Our messages to both believers and nonbelievers should be seasoned with love (1 Corinthians 13: 1-3).
“(Love) does not dishonor others, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs.”
1 Corinthians 13:5 NIV
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Sis, Christian Black woman here 🙋🏽♀️
And for the record, I have boatloads of white friends we love each other and share faith and the love of Jesus Christ in our hearts
I read your post and wanted to respond, because while your prayer sounds sincere, your reaction to Sinners feels like a misunderstanding wrapped in offense and privilege.
This movie isn’t about you.
It’s about US.
Our pain. Our story. Our reality.
Remember this is MISSISSIPPI, 1932.
“White Christian” love often came in the form of lynchings, sexual assault, using Black children as alligator bait, beatings, branding with hot irons, toes or feet amputated to prevent escape, whipped until flesh was ripped off, ears cut off as public warning, burning crosses, and segregated “Christian” churches
You said the movie paints Christians as devils.
Well, let me ask you this:
If you were Black during slavery, how would you see such barbaric behavior?
Put yourself in Black folks’ shoes (for once), and tell me how would YOU feel?
What kind of “Christian” burned Black churches?
Murdered Black children? Hung Black bodies from trees? Made laws against education, voting, housing? Baptized with one hand and hung black bodies with the other?
Sis, that’s what we’re talking about FAKE Christianity. Nothing about slavery was God! But pure, unadulterated EVIL.
White America (at that time) twisted the Bible to justify her sins
Did you know…
Slavery supposedly ended in 1865, but true access to homeownership for Black Americans didn’t start until the late 1960s, and even then came with obstacles. Why? Because white “Christians” didn’t want Black Americans to prosper. That’s not Christian that’s evil.
Black people were technically “free,” but couldn’t really buy property. Why?
• Black Codes restricted land ownership
• Violence and terrorism (like the KKK)
• Sharecropping kept many in debt and dependency
Did you know…
The KKK calls themselves a Christian organization? Yeah, they say burning crosses is a “symbol of the light of Christ”
But Jesus didn’t light a cross to terrorize people He died on one to save ALL people. That wasn’t Christ it was white supremacy
Sure, some Black families bought land after Reconstruction, but millions were pushed off that land during Jim Crow by white violence, legal trickery, or poverty
Did you know…
Who homeownership exploded for?
White Americans.
Through programs like:
• The GI Bill
• The FHA (Federal Housing Administration)
What about Black families?
Nope. The government flat-out denied loans to Black families
Not until 1968 (just 57 years ago) were Black Americans legally granted the right to buy homes without discrimination under federal law.
President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the Fair Housing Act just one week after MLK was assassinated.
It banned:
• Housing discrimination based on race
• Refusing to sell, rent, or finance a home to Black buyers
Did you know…
Black people didn’t ask for handouts but equality. But we weren’t allowed in the game. So laws had to be created just so we could enter in
Now guess who comes along and rolls them back?
President Donald Trump,
dismantled key parts of the Fair Housing Act
And then he tweets:
“I am happy to inform all of the people living their Suburban Lifestyle Dream that you will no longer be bothered or financially hurt by having low income housing built in your neighborhood.”
Even after 1968, housing discrimination didn’t magically stop, it just went underground.
They created “redlining maps” that marked Black neighborhoods as too risky.
Even middle-class Black veterans were denied the benefits they fought for in WWII
That’s one reason why the wealth gap between Black and white families still exists.
People wanna say, “That was a long time ago.”
But Black people have only been legally allowed to buy homes for 57 years.
Can you say WEALTH GAP? 💁🏽♀️
Back to the movie
Sinners isn’t mocking the Gospel, it’s confronting the misuse of it. That’s a HUGE difference.
You say it “twists” faith.
I disagree. It untwists history, exposing how systems of power used “God” as a weapon against Black people just trying to breathe
We had to find God outside the church, because the church wouldn’t let us in. When pulpits preached hate, we found God in the fields, in our grandmamas’ prayers, in the juke joints, under the stars. That’s not mockery that’s legacy
You’re mad about vampires?
We’ve been calling these systems “bloodsuckers” for decades. It’s called metaphor, and this one’s about the theft of:
1. Black culture
2. Black bodies
3. Black freedom
White Christian’s made it so black people couldn’t patent their inventions, couldn’t vote, couldn’t look white people in the eye, couldn’t learn to read, couldn’t drink from the same faucet, or go to the same schools, all while raising hands up in their white church with false worship to God. Doesn’t THAT sound evil to you? Yes, because it was evil! And that makes people uncomfortable, but truth often does
This isn’t calling “evil good.”
It’s calling evil by its name
The director ain’t trying to make you comfortable, this isn’t about your comfort.
It’s about our wounds
You said you’re tired of being mocked
Imagine using God to justify slavery
Imagine being told slavery was “God’s will.”
They didn’t want Black people to read because we’d find the truth. And we did
You’re not being mocked.
What’s being called out is evil cloaked in Christianity. It was never Christ, it was lies covered in Christianity
“And no marvel; for Satan himself is transformed into an angel of light.”
—2 Corinthians 11:14
If this truth makes you uncomfortable, maybe it’s because the truth isn’t easy to digest
But it will surely set you free (John 8:32).
Black stories will be told
Not whitewashed. Not watered down
We honor our ancestors when we tell the truth, and if telling the truth makes you uncomfortable that’s an uncomfortable truth that you should take to the father and ask, pray, that you see the story from black eyes and perspective and not your own
Why is it okay when Jewish people honor their Holocaust stories.
But a problem when Black people honor their history?
You prayed for the filmmakers?
Okay. But maybe also pray for empathy.
Pray that you can see through someone else’s eyes
The fact that this film shook you?
Maybe that’s the point
Because Black folks didn’t just watch a film they lived every bit of it, and the history and pain has been passed down from generation to generation we are over-comers by the blood of the lamb and the word of our testimony
For 400+ years, “white Christianity” was used as a whip, a muzzle, a branding iron.
And it wasn’t real Christianity, it was abuse wrapped in scripture
Now, in 2025, Black history is being removed, whitewashed, softened, and sanitized.
Why?
Because it’s uncomfortable.
Because the truth threatens the lies that built this country and America loves a clean story
“We overcame slavery.”
“Civil Rights fixed it.”
“Now everyone’s equal.”
But how?
When Black folks were blocked from building wealth? When the President sits in a White House built by slaves, but removes us them from our textbooks?
We want our kids to know where they came from.
Their strength. Their resilience.
Real Black history includes:
• Massacres
• Stolen land
• Prison labor
• Forced sterilizations
• Redlining
• Medical experimentation
• And yes ongoing systems, not just past sin
And yet… hate groups still exist.
But Rosa Parks and Harriet Tubman are being removed from textbooks?
Women who knew they were better than the back of the bus? Women who ran for freedom and dreamed of equality? That’s what we erase?
But the Klan marches on?
America benefited from slavery.
And now that we want to discuss it, we hear, “I’m uncomfortable.”
Real repentance requires real justice.
Reparations. Reform. Accountability.
But instead, we hear:
“It’s divisive.”
“It makes white people feel bad.”
“It’s not patriotic.”
Well, truth ain’t meant to comfort, it’s meant to correct.
So dear Miss White Believer (because that’s what you called yourself)
Let me ask…
Why has every race that was enslaved or oppressed received reparations except Black Americans?
• Japanese Americans: After WWII, over 120,000 were interned. In 1988, they received $20,000 per surviving victim.
• Jewish Holocaust survivors: Germany has paid over $90 billion in reparations.
• Native Americans: Received land, settlements, and compensation. In 2009, the U.S. paid $3.4 billion in the Cobell v. Salazar case.
• 9/11 Victims: Over $7 billion paid through the Victim Compensation Fund.
Black Americans? Descendants of slaves?
Nothing.
No land.
No check.
No tax break.
No national apology.
Instead, we got:
• The Freedmen’s Bureau defunded
• 40 acres and a mule revoked
• Mass incarceration
• Redlining
• Underfunded schools
• Low-income housing
• Ghettos
• And when we built wealth (Tulsa, OK
It was burned down
Reparations would force America to admit that it benefited massively from slavery, and that slavery didn’t end, it evolved.
Prisons were built.
Black men were arrested for walking down the street. (Just like today but I’ll digress)
They were leased out for labor modern plantations
Driving while Black?
That’s not new, it’s just rebranded.
(I’ll digress again)
You’re looking at this movie through your lens.
Try looking at it through ours.
Black people aren’t bitter
And we’re not mad over a movie
We’re speaking up about pain. About history. About truth
If someone gave you a five-tier cake and all you had to do was blow out the candles,
You couldn’t possibly say how hard it was to make.
You didn’t sweat in the kitchen.
You didn’t measure, mix, or bake.
You’re just tasting the finished product.
This film?
It’s our cake.
Our labor.
Our truth.
Our story.
And if that makes you uncomfortable,
Maybe, just maybe, it’s doing exactly what it was meant to do. White Americans who placed Christianity on slavery… undoubtedly was EVIL!
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I disagree with your take on the movie sinners. Hollywood chose the year and the state of Alabama so they could make it a racial issue. Sorry that you can’t see what Hollywood is trying to do to the country.
There’s no question that Sinners wants to confront America’s racial past — from slavery to Jim Crow. But in doing so, the film often paints white characters as irredeemably evil or spiritually bankrupt. Nearly every white figure in the film serves as either a villain, an oppressor, or a soulless religious figure clinging to dead tradition.
I don’t have a racist bone in my body, and every movie pretty much paints whites as evil because of the past, even tho my generation had nothing to do with the past, so it gets old and boring in my opinion.
I do appreciate the argument you make tho, and I appreciate you for taking time to share your opinions.
God bless and thank you again ❤️
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