The God Makers (anatomy of a propagandist’s wildest fantasy)
October 19, 2008
One of my guilty pleasures is that I love conspiracy theories. There, I said. I love, love, love them. I don’t believe in 95% of the ones I happen to stumble upon, but there is something fascinating about the psychology behind conspiracy theories. What they bring out of people, the paranoia, the faith, the determination that they have grasped some certain truth that others are unaware of, and that the ‘most powerful’ people are withholding from the masses. This builds a compassion for those who don’t know on the conscience of those who do know, the sense of duty that they have to save their fellow man from the peril of the evil overlords who wish them nothing but harm and a terrifying future. It is the same as very religious people who believe all non-believers in their creed are destined to a terrifying hell-fire, and it is their duty to bring the others to the truth of their cause. What am I rambling about? There is this movie I saw over a year ago, entitled “The God Makers.” It was produced and released by Jeremiah Films, an extremist fundamentalist organization in California in the 1980’s. They made all kinds of films using propaganda techniques that would make Hitler blush. They made a sequel to this film some years later.
It is about the birth of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, or the Mormon faith. Now, I don’t know one way or another if the claims of this film are true as I have not studied the Mormon faith other than a few articles. But after watching some of the company’s other films, I realized that their purpose is to spread fear an distrust of all other religions, denominations, and beliefs other than their own. So, it is only natural that this film would be disturbing as well. My purpose for posting this is to expose viewers to propaganda techniques that are all around us, including in this film, and to ask us to consciously make an effort to research a topic beyond what some anti-film/book says about it.
As it turns out, I can not post the full movie here, but I will post the most “exciting” part of it.
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