REVIEW: ‘The Lone Ranger’ Remake Thrashes Christianity

Photo courtesy RNS/disney.com.
Lone Ranger movie. Photo courtesy RNS/disney.com.

Producers of the latest reboot of the Superman franchise famously marketed the movie to Christian audiences. Makers of the new Lone Ranger movie, not so much.

There’s a reason for that. If Man of Steel panders to Christians, in The Lone Ranger, Christians are portrayed as unattractive, ineffectual, hateful or flat-out hypocritically evil.

Like so much in this mess of a movie, it’s an ingredient that doesn’t make a ton of sense.

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