The persecution of a person based solely on their beliefs has been a shameful and also inextricable part of human history.

And for those that subscribe to one such belief system, their oppression is more recent, yet no less traumatic.

The followers of this ideology take communion and massive cathedrals where they worship their deities.

The money they tithe during these weekly ceremonies makes their political influence

formidable.

This narrow worldview has come to encroach upon more and more aspects of society and culture,

going forth and multiplying everywhere public and private, ushered in by this growing community and it's more than a community

it's an identity as they consume more and more of what gives their lives meaning

to the exclusion of everything else and as

their influence increases and their numbers grow from minority to majority the

sense of victimhood has not transformed.

What is now only imagined remains, the persecuted majority.

But their followers are of such mass

and their members vocalize at such a bombarding rate that even offering the

most nuanced critical view of their beliefs is considered controversial, even when voiced by our society's most celebrated minds.

That's what happened when Martin Scorsese said superhero films are not cinema,

and instead theme parks.

Francis Ford Coppola agrees saying he's right because we expect to learn something from

cinema.

We expect to gain something, some enlightenment, some knowledge, some inspiration. I don't know that anyone gets anything out of seeing the same movie

over and over again.

To say the response has been hostile would be an understatement and not just from those that

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