FROZEN

Frozen

I originally thought about this 25 or so years ago. The "frozen" I mention is the concept of "the chilling effect" taken to MORE of an extreme. The original "chilling effect" I noted was Stephen King's (book and) movie CARRIE. In that movie, the mother was not loving, and saw the world around her, including her daughter, Carrie, as evil. The mother was portrayed as cold and unloving; and her religious beliefs (nominally Christian) were part of what made her so cold and unloving.
That portrayal which equated Christian religious zeal with an ignorant inflexibility which made the mother a failure as a parent (cold and unloving) -that portrayal, in my opinion, inhibited some people (such as myself?) from trying to raise their children by strong religious standards, for fear that they would be thought of by their children and onlookers as cold and unloving.
Now 30 plus years later, that distorted image of devoted Christians has persisted and maybe become even more exaggerated.
However, I may be wrong, but I think perhaps current (late 2019) views have become so (ridiculously?) exaggerated- championing gender identity rights and right to whatever "sexual  lifestyle" one feels drawn to as well as insistence that those values be accepted as normal by all members of society- that some people now are starting to see that that extreme view is not really intellectually honest.
Just today, I read Wei-huan Chen's (of the HOUSTON CHRONICLE, Nov 29, 2019, maybe) review of BABY  SCREAMS MIRACLE , the play by Barron. I was thankful for Chen's thoughtful review, considering the possibility that Christians could seriously and truly look to our God and the standards and guidance put forth in His Bible and try to live their lives that way with loving others as part of that.