Thursday, September 21, 2006
Jesus Camp
Spooky children with glowing eyes and long, flowing mullets are coming to make you see the light. This movie might be more frightening than Children of the Corn.
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Spooky children with glowing eyes and long, flowing mullets are coming to make you see the light. This movie might be more frightening than Children of the Corn.
D. Bones
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I was all set to comment on this frightening stuff when the ABC anchor's final words totally threw me off course. Something about the documentary opening "in the Christian heartland" before moving to New York and LA. Um, what? Why is that an ok shorthand? There are Christians in New York and LA (and New England and the rest of the fringes of the country). Do they no longer count because they're not radical evangelicals? Because they actually follow that whole "it's not our place to judge" part of Jesus's teachings? And have we simply ceded the "heartland" to the Christians? I wouldn't be so bothered by this if the anchor hadn't said it as nonchalantly as the pairing of any two words, like "the al-Qaida terrorists" or "the inept Bush administration." But Christian heartland? The hell?
But back to the main point. This shit is scary. Pastor Becky, or whatever her name is, cheerfully observes that she'd like these kids to fight for their religion the way people do in Pakistan and Israel. This woman doesn't decry holy war; she embraces it!
One can only hope that these kiddies will oneday awaken to a world where (thanks to the limits of how much the fundies can quash at once) there still are other influences and choices, and reject these teachings like teenagers are supposed to. Otherwise, the top song on iTunes might someday be "Throw the Jew Down the Well."
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Damn. And we bitched about 20 min. Friday night services.
Damn. And we bitched about 20 min. Friday night services. At least we got grapes.
just don't know how to take that. I've been trying my best to see common ground with people with diverse views, but damn it's hard. sam harris writes in "the end of faith" about the disingenuous nature of religious tolerance. if you believe in a myth that defines non believers as hell bound or science which looks at those myths as, well, great meaningful myths, but to take as truth, idiotic and rejecting most modern thought.i.e; death is irreversible. I'm turning into a zealot preaching the gospel of logic. great blog, rick. always something here to piss me off.
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