Sunday, February 18, 2007

Death Or Life We Want You


"Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason, than that of blind-folded fear."
-Thomas Jefferson

Watching for the third time the documentary "Friends of God" by Alexandra Pelosi (who gave us 2002's Journeys With George) is inconceivable, like a friend said, "after a few times I've seen it enough. It's like getting that taste of vomit in the back of your throat" and I can't help but entirely agree with him. Friends of God sets us into the mad delusions and tortured psychologies of the popular fundamentalist Christian movement. Many of these evangelical organizations focus on children. They are openly targetting children and young people, teaching them that creationism is the ‘truth’ and that evolution is evil (I could write an entire book on that subject alone, that's how angry I am). Plus, a whole slew of rock concerts, summer camps, wrestling organizations and other things targetting teens. The kids appeared as automatons, unable or unwilling to question the pronouncements of their leaders. It made my skin crawl. Pelosi also aknowledge the fall from grace of Rev. Ted Haggard, the former president of the 30-million-strong National Association of Evangelicals, resigned in a scandal over his relationship with a male prostitute and buying illegal drugs. I almost fainted when that lying smirking face told Pelosi “You know all the surveys say that evangelicals have the best sex life of any other group,” and then Haggard coaxes a member of his congregation to say how often he has sex with his wife, “Every day. Twice a day.” and how often she climaxes, “Every time”.
Humm yeah.. right! cough* sheisfakingasshole*cough.

The Christian movement portraied in Friends of God is like a train wreck, It’s horrible. You know it’s going to be horrible. But you just can’t turn away, and you can't stop it.. that's the worst part.

If you're not able to see it you can listen to it instead. You lose some of the experience not having the visuals of the video part but if you want the weird experience of feeling like laughing and crying at the same time give a listen, it's about 55 mins long...

2 Comments:

Anonymous Anonymous said...

Well it's not a train wreck, the doc works great. Ted Haggard is a train wreck, so is his church of the insane.

9:31 PM  
Blogger SHAN said...

That's what I meant :|

9:33 PM  

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