Published: October 1, 2024
Want to Change the Country? Get Out and Vote, Christian Actor Urges
By Movieguide® Contributor
With November quickly approaching, many celebrities are urging their followers to vote in this election.
LOIS & CLARK actor Dean Cain hopes that his new movie, GOD’S NOT DEAD: IN GOD WE TRUST, will remind Christians that their vote matters and has the power to change the course of the country.
“There’s up to 40 million Christians in this country who do not vote,” he
explained to Crosswalk Headlines. “…What I would really love to see is, I’d like to see those 40 million Christians who don’t vote in every election vote.”
“Get involved,” he added. “You may not be interested in politics, but politics are interested in you. I think that if those 40 million came out and voted — [even] if 20 million came out and voted, that changes everything. And I think we [then] go to a place that makes a lot more sense as a country and as a world, and I think it’s of the utmost importance. That wasn’t my idea when we started doing the movie, but now that we’ve done the film, and it’s so timely.”
IN GOD WE TRUST, the franchise’s fifth installment, deals with how Christians should interact with the government.
Movieguide®’s review summarizes:
Pastor David Hill of the GOD’S NOT DEAD franchise is back, in a new story titled IN GOD WE TRUST. Everywhere Pastor Hill turns, it seems like God and Christianity are being erased and replaced by hostile, godless, immoral values. When a candidate dies unexpectedly, Reverend David decides to run for Congress against Peter Kane. Kane is a died-in-the-wool atheist fundamentalist. He wants to totally erase God and Christian, biblical values from America. Meanwhile, the local women’s shelter is losing government funding merely because some of the women started a Bible study.
“We hadn’t even planned on making a second one…but with every [one], it seems the way our country goes and the way our culture moves, a GOD’S NOT DEAD movie kind of just lands right in the middle of that to open up conversations, to kind of bring to light different things that most people don’t talk about,” David A.R. White, who plays Pastor David Hill in the movie, told Movieguide®, “and other films don’t show and so we feel a little bit of a call to continue to make these when it’s put upon us, and that’s where GOD’S NOT DEAD: IN GOD WE TRUST came from.”
Cain has been vocal about the impact politics has on everyday life. Movieguide® previously
reported on why he left California:
Last May, the actor sold his $6.25 million home in Malibu, California, and relocated to Las Vegas, Nevada.
“Governments can ruin an area. And that’s what’s going on in California,” Cain shared.
“My home in Malibu was going to be my forever home,” he recalled. “That was where I was going to die, and everything was going to be just fine. You can’t beat the weather. And I had a lovely house with the most incredible views.”
But because of the politics, Cain decided to leave.
“What is happening under [Democratic California Gov.] Gavin Newsom and the Democratic leadership in the House, in Congress — people I did not vote for. People did in California vote for it. I didn’t. But it’s the most ridiculous large government, incredible taxation, horrible regulations for business. Very anti-business. The personal income tax is 13 — the highest levels — 13, 13.2, whatever it happens to be,” he explained.
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