THE FAMILY: Part Four: Dictators, Murderers & Thieves

Name: THE FAMILY: Part Four: Dictators, Murderers & Thieves
Item: THE FAMILY: Part Four: Dictators, Murderers & Thieves
Author: Tess Farrand

Season 1 Episode 4

Family Content: -4 Intentional blasphemy, evil, gross immorality, and/or worldview problems. (To be avoided)

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Content:

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Dominant Worldview and Other Worldview Content/Elements:

Very strong humanist, politically correct, Anti-Christian, anti-biblical worldview attacks some Christian leaders for saying how much they hate perversion, a few comments are made appearing to align with Anti-Semitism, Christian leaders are depicted as power-hungry, mixed with some strong Christian, biblical elements such as a Christocentric view of Christianity (Jesus plus nothing), characters believe Jesus came for the broken and preached to the lost, comments about Jesus wanting to use imperfect vessels to do His perfect work, prayer depicted, plus episode has a strong politically correct worldview promoting homosexual sin as countries around the world struggle with the notion of legalizing same-sex marriage, and there’s a mention of Islam, a false religion;

Foul Language:

One obscenity;

Violence:

Violence shown in footage from 2013 of a man being beaten in the street with sticks in Nigeria for being homosexual, photos shown of arrested people for being homosexual and blood shown on their shirts, footage shown of a plane crash, dead bodies are shown in a pile in Nigeria as well as a photo of people being lined up to be executed;

Sex:

No sexual immorality;

Nudity:

No nudity;

Alcohol Use:

People are shown in a bar holding alcoholic drinks, but no drunkenness shown;

Smoking and/or Drug Use and Abuse:

No smoking or drug use; and,

Miscellaneous Immorality:

Levels of racism throughout and hate crimes, a man is shown who was imprisoned for National Socialist war crimes and was on record saying that God told them to wipe out the Jews, people are beaten and arrested for being homosexual, and some examples of hypocrisy.

Episodes: Season Overview

Number	Date	Title	Content
1.1	8/9/2019	Part One: Submersion	-4
1.2	8/9/2019	Part Two: Chosen	-3
1.3	8/9/2019	Part Three: New World Order	-4
1.4	8/9/2019	Part Four: Dictators, Murderers & Thieves	-4
1.5	8/9/2019	The Wolf King	-3

More Detail:

“Dictators, Murders & Thieves,” takes the subject of The Family to an international level, showing the ways in which, the leader, Doug Coe, and others tried to reach other countries for Jesus. Coe began to implement National Prayer Breakfasts in other countries, and the American Fellowship became an instant influence high profile people around the world. The Family and other conservative politicians travel to tell others about Jesus and implement conservative family values in countries like Romania and Uganda, for example. However, this creates a ripple effect of what filmmakers present as Christians sticking their noses into places they don’t belong. This episode contends that, although Jesus wanted to reach all people, the core belief of the Family is that Jesus favored the elite.

This episode continues to show the filmmakers anti-Christian take on The Family while also showing the steadfast Christian faith of some. “Dictators, Murderers and Thieves” takes a bit of a darker turn, showing some Christian beliefs that can be harming to others. It also grapples with the issue of same-sex marriage and a fascination with National Socialism. MOVIEGUIDE® find this episode “abhorrent.”