ChildCare Action Project: Christian Analysis of American Culture (CAP) Review Summary

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Findings / Scoring

Wanton Violence/Crime (W):

• dead bodies, many
• brutality by police
• cruel and torturous captivity devices
• many very graphic decapitations
• two battle decapitations
• a severed head dropped onto its body in a casket, twice
• many decapitated bodies, most with views from an above perspective
• many views of a vicious headless horse rider
• stabbing a severed head with a sword to retrieve it
• repeated gunfire
• many severed heads, some individual, some grouped
• headless horseman carrying severed heads
• knife impalement
• battles and fights
• sword impalement
• torture chamber
• iron maiden with flooding of blood from victim
• self injury
• tale of suicide
• tales of murder
• attempted murder by implement with a 3x3 fence post and by firearm
• skulls
• extremely graphic refleshing of a skull
• other gore

Impudence/Hate (I)(1):

• two uses of the three/four letter word vocabulary

Sex/Homosexuality (S):

• necking in the shadows with inappropriate touch
• many examples of excessive cleavage/breast exposure
• immoral sex (covered)
• intercourse (covered but with motions and sounds), twice

Drugs/Alcohol (D):

• booze, twice

Offense to God (O)(2):

• talk of resurrection from the grave
• unholy manifestations
• satanic symbols; ankh, pentagram (see Back to School Special from our home page)
• reliance on spells and a talisman (ankh shaped key) for protection
• levitation in witchcraft
• God's name in vain once and without the four letter word vocabulary
• witchcraft with animal sacrifice (decapitation)
• talking decaying human face (witch)
• miraculous healing
• witch incantation
• "Offer my soul to Satan..."

Murder/Suicide (M)(3):

• 13 decapitation murders
• one slicing murder
• one murder by cross
• one murder by gunfire
• one [implied] child murder by headless horseman stealing a child