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I'm just saying with Cura Davis.

This week is the beginning of the annual Telluride horror show in Telluride, Colorado.

Four days of independent and mainstream horror films in one of the most beautiful mountain towns in America. And I'll be there

along with my whole family. My daughter and I in particular are huge horror fans and I deal a lot

of my listeners find strange. How can you be a Christian and enjoy such things? My answer is always the same.

Horror is the last place in entertainment that treats evil with unabashed repulsion. It is almost

always a story of the battle between good and evil. Evil is not misunderstood. The villains are not

just secret heroes waiting for a hug to unleash

their goodness. There are no what-abouts or two sides to every story. Bad is bad and good is good.

Life is the ultimate prize with death at the doorstep. It echoes the biblical narrative of a desperate

struggle between good and evil outside of time. It's our own small

human way of processing that truth. It's the last place God gets to be the good guy in entertainment.

Entertainment that isn't explicitly labeled Christian entertainment. Horror is like any other

genre. Some of it's trash. The same way I like comedy but not romantic comedy, I like horror,

but not torture porn. Like any other genre, it's important to be discerning. But horror, besides

being endlessly creative in ways other genres cannot match, feels like it's the last place

where the truth can be told. The truth that there are evil entities in this world and a spiritual

realm that is vibrant and dangerous and has deep consequences here in the physical. Believe it or not,

this week when I'm sitting in those theaters watching all those horror movies, I'll be thinking about

Jesus, the ultimate protagonist and the one who promises to rescue us from the frights of evil and death.

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