Pirkle

One of the two movies he's reviewing in the near future, The Burning Hell, an evangelical film by Estus Pirkle, is available on YouTube, where I watched all eight painful segments in order to bring you this post.

Archive 2007-09-01 2007

One of the two movies he's reviewing in the near future, The Burning Hell, an evangelical film by Estus Pirkle, is available on YouTube, where I watched all eight painful segments in order to bring you this post.

The Burning Hell 2007

�� — DT D.J. Pirkle sat out most of the contact drills during spring practices to recover from an injury.

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Pirkle, this film warns what will happen to America if the citizens do not give up their depraved ways and turn to God and Jesus for salvation.

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Through it all, Pirkle makes it clear that Hell is bad, that you don't want to go there, and that you definitely are going there unless you accept Jesus Christ as your personal Lord and Savior.

The Burning Hell 2007

Pirkle apparently doesn't realize that early Judaism had no developed concept of Hell; rather, sheol is the shadowy region of the dead under the earth.

Archive 2007-09-01 2007

The video also has an unintentional smugness: he makes it clear that you are in danger of Hell, but Estus Pirkle certainly isn't.

The Burning Hell 2007

On the one hand, Estus Pirkle feels fit to say exactly -- by name -- who is in Hell.

The Burning Hell 2007

For one thing, the bad acting and script-writing lend it a certain callousness: not only does a man skip off to church and leave the dead body of his buddy by the side of the road, but Pirkle singles him out during his sermon and tells him in front of a crowded room that his pal is damned forever and that he likely is, too.

Archive 2007-09-01 2007

Had Pirkle realized this, he could have eliminated much of the film's callousness.

The Burning Hell 2007