Christian films have a reputation for being heavy-handed, but they're more or less consistent in their messages of the importance of spirituality and family. However, some Christian filmmakers lay on the rhetoric so thick that they accidentally reveal some hidden part of their own personalities, be it deep-seated prejudice, a torture-porn fetish, or an affinity for Twilight slash fiction. Warning: The last entry is pretty gruesome.

6 Billy Graham Accidentally Makes Atheism Look Badass

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For decades, deathless specter of televangelism Rev. Billy Graham went on TV to worship, pray, and hold up Bibles in dramatic ways. Graham's faithful viewers, moved by his spirituality, responded by sending him enough money to ransom individual planets. So, what was America's Pastor to do with all that cash? The answer was obvious: become a Hollywood producer to spread the good word.

The bulk of Graham's films are about sinful people living morally bankrupt lives until they come across some Billy Graham stock footage and see the error of their ways. The only problem with this formula is that Graham accidentally made the "immorality" parts of his movies look rad as hell.

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The 1973 film Time To Run, for instance, follows an 18-year-old who runs away from home and gets to do cool shit like wear leather jackets and kick open gates with his feet.

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As you know, this is the only way to open a gate once you're an independent adult.

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By 1983's The Prodigal (another "wayward son" tale), we start to get a very specific image of what Billy Graham thinks a life without God looks like, and it looks exactly like a high-octane action movie. There's romance! Fistfights! Motorcycles!

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