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

(The ChildCare Action Project (CAP) is a nonprofit Christian ministry)

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Findings / Scoring

Wanton Violence/Crime:

• a hot poker being shoved up someone's nose
• a tongue being cut off
• many deaths by gunfire and sword and other violence
• bugs eating people
• warfare
• decayed body arrising to scare
• fighting, beating, once to gain first place
• a hanging
• gambling
• throwing a man overboard while at sea
• threats with a knife at the throat
• threats with guns
• "melting" flesh
• insect invasion into human bodies
• many presentations of decayed/decomposed bodies as alive and attacking people, in some cases to steal body parts for rejuvination
• deaths by fire
• death by evil power
• exceptionally gross gore of insects crawling in and out of cavities in the body tissue and scurrying about just under the skin

Impudence/Hate (I)(1):

• 24 uses of the three/four letter word vocabulary
• lies to manipulate

Sex/Homosexuality (S):

• nudity (under fishnet outer wear)
• inappropriate touch
• female nightwear
• female face in the lap of a male (passed out drunk into his lap)

Drugs/Alcohol (D):

• booze
• drinking
• drunkenness
• lust for drink

Offense to God (O)(2):

• "I will resurrect you."
• evil presences
• additional resurrections
• "Undead for all eternity"
• tattoos, including on the forehead
• demon presences and possessions of the dead to resurrect, and demon control of people with deformity of flesh
• talk of entering eternal life NOT by Jesus
• many stories of evil supremacy and power
• long sequences of dead decomposed bodies fighting people
• changing rivers into blood
• mockery of Christ and His control
• "Better to serve the devil than to stand in his way"
• unholy control of natural elements
• beckoning evil power

Murder/Suicide (M)(3):

• brutal knife and sword murder (seen as shadows only with sound)
• suicide by knife (seen as shadows only with sound)