| − | |A prominently featured Christian character - the only character in the movie ever identified as Christian - is portrayed as fanatical and bigoted against people with scissors for hands. | + | |A prominently featured Christian character - the only character in the movie ever identified as Christian - is portrayed as fanatical and bigoted against people with scissors for hands, even though Conservative historians have pointed out that the most notable cases of persecution of scissorhanded people all took place in Soviet Russia, a liberal communist state. |