Movie-goers have a salvo of Biblical movies this year. To start off this year's list is Noah with Russell Crowe in the lead role, which opened last Thursday in cinemas on 2-D and IMAX. This was preceded by 20th Century Fox's Son of God and will be followed by Ridley Scott's Exodus later this year.
As the U.S. Supreme Court debated Tuesday about whether for-profit companies could refuse the Affordable Care Act's mandate for contraception coverage to its employees citing religious beliefs, Hobby Lobby became part of a list of organizations to publicly take a religiously conservative stance on socioeconomic topics.
Russell Crowe's upcoming film Noah, based on the biblical story of the prophet who built an ark to protect his family from an apocalyptic flood, has been banned in several Muslim countries and is causing controversy among Christians as well.
