The Time Tinkerer
Today's topic is Jesus movies! I just saw the trailer for Jesus Camp which seems kind of like a movie we watched recently called Hell House which is basically a movie about what it was like for me as a boy growing up in Oklahoma. Jesus was like a superhero whose secret identify was the winner of American Idol.
It's like there's two types of people -- people who can't believe people actually do that sort of thing and people to whom that sort of thing is completely normal. I fall in the latter category but as a midwest refugee I am in the minority now.
In non-Jesus movie news I promised the Avett Brothers I would give them a link! If you get a chance to see these guys you are in for a wicked hoot-nanny, and if you don't have an excellent time I will personally give you a neck massage.
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So how do we schedule the neck massage?
I saw that Hell House. That church calls it speaking in tongues, I calls it straight-up jibba jabba.
The Avett Brothers are great. I haven't had a chance to hear the new record yet, but I loved Mignonette.
Wow, I'm not sure I have seen a creepier movie trailer.
No offense to anybody, but I just watched that Jesus Camp trailer and feel very, very sick.
"jesus camp follows a group of young children to pastor Becky Fisher's "Kids on Fire Summer Camp" where kids are taught to become dedicated christian soldiers in god's army and are schooled in how to take back america for christ. the film is a first ever look into an intense training ground that recruits born-again christian children to become an active part of america's political future."
WE ARE ALL FUCKED
For a film that claims to be even handed, where's the part where the kids sneak into the woods to clumsily paw at each other? I thought that's what church camp was all about?
These kids today...not like it was back in my day...
Damn secularists. If we weren't so lazy, we could take back this country!
y'know, cuz if they lose the evolution fight, they can always send their children to their nazi youth sumer camps. so either way, the children of america are in peril!
Man, brainwashed is brainwashed no matter what spin you put on it.
I'n sorry, but I have to ask the obvious question. What the hell did Weedmaster P do/try to do?
I love the "Jeffrey Rowland: Classic Edition" with the NWA hat and the overalls.
And the sorely missed 'stache.
Old, fat, ugly people can tell their kids whatever they want, but young, slutty, beautiful people are still going to rule movies, television, hearts, and minds. All the crazies in the world can't stop puberty.
Jesus never did nothing to nobody but die for our sins. IS A LITTLE SUMMER CAMP TOO MUCH TO ASK?
Holy crap! WMP's antenna hair is suddenly GONE. :'(
I'm a recovering "one of those" fundymentalists, and old enough to know better now.
The culture is so full of people politics, mass-hysteria, groupthink and so forth, that I'm not sure Jesus would have recognized any of it.
Choose whatever religion you like, but this kind of "Western Taliban" stuff is just plain WHACKED.
Hey, the Avett Brothers! Those guys are awesome. My cousin went to the same college as them, and now his dad (my uncle) is trying to get them to go out on his sailboat with him.
It would be cool if my cousin actually knew the Avetts, of course, but he doesn't. All they did was attend a few classes together, so instead of rockin', the situation is actually turning out to be kind of awkward and creepy. So... yeah.
~IJ
A little Church camp can be good. :) Just don't overdose...
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