"I will depress your movie grosses like a thief in the night."

Christian films, specifically the apocalypse features, have never hit it big in the mainstream. The biggest hit in the genre has been The Omega Code at $12 million. Salon has a neat article about Christian apocalypse films. It focuses on why Christian movies haven’t crossed over the way Christian music and books have.

One line that surprised me from the article was this:

The recent Time cover story about apocalypse fever quotes a Boeing employee who decided against upgrading to Windows XP for fear the antichrist might use Microsoft security features to track e-mails sent between Christians. If you substitute “government” for “antichrist” and “friends” for “Christians” you could describe another segment of the population.

Is this a good sign that as a country that we have so much prosperity and wealth that we can worry about operating system security features when people in other countries worry about just staying alive another day? Maybe the government should have yet another economic index that evaluates success based on the number of asinine complaints people have from day to day.