Every "News" Channel - Every One! - BibleThumping Tonight

[matcom]

:puke:

i can't take this SHITE anymore!

CNN
MSRNC
FAUX
LOCAL NEWS
ETC...
ETC...
ETC...

BIBLE THUMPING over The Passion!

REDICULOUS I SAY!!

this isn't "NEWS"!

IT'S A G*DAMN MOVIE!!!!

:puke: x 100000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000

on edit: getting pretty damn sick of all the 'faith' threads here on DU as well

sorry, there are MUCH more important topics going on today

[DrWeird]

1. That's america for you.

Too lazy to read the book, have to go see the movie.

[LoneStarLiberal]

5. Great Comment...Too Sad, Too True

HA! Great! Reminds me of a visitor I had in my office the day before "The Return of the King" was released. A friend of mine and I were talking about it as she got ready to leave and this guy blurts out in a very worried manner: "Please don't talk about it any longer...don't spoil it for me!"

Spoil it? You jackass! It's only been in print for around 50 years!

[Walt Starr]

16. I've read the book many times.

I have no desire to see a slasher movie based on that book.

[opiate69]

20. LOL..name that movie:

"You people... if there isn't a movie about it, it's not worth knowin', is it?"

[JohnyCanuck]

2. Not the first time that Christ is being used to make a buck

Pope Leo X, privy to the truth because of his high rank, made this curious declaration, "What profit has not that fable of Christ brought us!"15


http://www.truthbeknown.com/origins.htm

[strategery blunder]

3. Murdoch et. al. could get even richer

by billing Mel Gibson and the Bush campaign for the nonstop advertising that they do.

Or maybe Murdoch received payment in the form of deregulation?

Still doesn't get Mel off the hook though:D

[RC]

4. News Channel?

American gots a News Channel?
Ain't no news ever happens here.

[Fleshdancer]

6. and it's opening up the local news too!!!

WTF??!!!

Talk about billions worth of FREE advertising.

[rocktivity]

7. Cine-Rapture?

What was the whole point of it anyway--was it supposed to start a worldwide instant Christianity epidemic?

:headbang:
rocknation

[Chovexani]

23. ROFL!

You owe me a new monitor, I just fried mine after a spit take. :)

[Cleita]

8. I guess I should be grateful that the rain storm has knocked my

TV out.

[waterman]

9. Makes me glad I'm safely tucked away here in DU land.

[maveric]

10. Sex and religion clogging the airwaves and the real news is clouded.

With the bullshit that the bu$h administration is into, the lies, theft, and killing, is a fine distraction by the facist, state controlled, corporate media.

[Mari333]

11. so much for the 2 soldiers who died in Iraq today

no one gives a shit anymore about the soldiers, or the people who are dying over there.
fucking news whores.

[wellstone_democrat]

12. In Texas tonight are ya?

Here it is wall to wall:

1. "Mad Max Jesus Movie"---entire theatres are sold out and it started at 9:45 this am with people taking the day off work. The "drive time" radio was nothing else but this. Two office staff at my firm took the a.m. off for personal time and came back a bit green around the gills by 1pm. Seems that the movie is "a little much."

2. "The threat to Marriage!!!"=-===every pastor within 100 miles has stuck his oar in on this one on-camera. Every hobo, every housewife, every herbalist, every hairdresser, every pedestrian and parishoner that can be rounded up for a "soundbit" outside the supermarket is on TV as well.

I asked a colleague who I know has Xanax for flying to give me one. He did. He's my new best friend...

OH, and the entire front page of the newspaper in the city I was in today was divided between the two stories.

[waterman]

13. Man, that was a good post

[wellstone_democrat]

15. thanks, it was very cathartic

I don't think that most of you understand what is going on within areas that are well over 50% "evangelical" in denominational identification. There were moments today, in my quite well educated and largely "secular minded" workplace (well, at least for this corner of the state) where I was quite uneasy.

I should note that I am myself an active member of a more "mainline" and less "testifying" denomination. This isn't exactly a secret---people here make a career out of ferreting out your religious or lack of religious activity---even so, the *frenzy* was marked. I really did not expect it.

[Lars39]

18. "I don't think that most of you understand what is going on within areas"

I do. I'm in one of the top areas puritan-wise. I don't want to be broad-sided if I can help it. This whole thing makes me very uneasy. Their excitement/fervor over this makes the hell-house phenomenon look pretty tame.

[Grave Expectations]

14. I'm agnostic...

But my step-dad (also agnostic) and I are going to see it some time next week.

[RebelOne]

17. I'm an atheist and I am in no hurry to see some guy get beat up.

So I'll just wait for it to come out on DVD and maybe I will rent it, if there is nothing better available.

[AgadorSparticus]

19. same here. it's a defnite rent me if nothing else is on...

[AgadorSparticus]

21. SO TRUE!! this movie is getting shoved down our throats.

and i'm awful sick of it. we need to shift the attention back on matters that are important: the economy.

[Chovexani]

22. Amen dude!

Sorry for the pun. :evilgrin:

Seriously it's really getting on my frelling nerves...so tired of this! Unfortunately my fundie mom is literally SWOONING because she's seeing it on Saturday and she's trying to drag my heathen ass with her, LOL.

God please save me from your followers...

--Chovexani

PS. So glad there's no wars or anything going on in the world, so we can waste time talking about who killed one guy 2000 years ago. I'm just sayin'.

[MattBaggins]

24. Thanks a whole lot Meli Gibsonstahl

A re-igniting of the Passion and Blood Libel is just what the world needs right now. What you gonna do with the money from this film? I know some guys trying to breed a perfectly red bull that could use some of that money.

[gauguin57]

26. Meli Gibsonstahl!!

OMG that's funny! I've got soda coming out my nose from laughing!

[JohnyCanuck]

25. Why all this hype about Jeebus and the crucifixion?

No doubt at all in my mind that it is related to this:

Strauss’s teaching incorporated much of Machiavelli’s. Significantly, his philosophy is unfriendly to democracy—even antagonistic. At the same time Strauss upheld the necessity for a national religion not because he favored religious practices, but because religion in his view is necessary in order to control the population. (my emphasis /jc) Since neo-conservatives influenced by Strauss are in control of the Bush administration, I have prepared a brief list that shows the radical unchristian basis of neo-conservatism. I am indebted to Shadia Drury’s book (Leo Strauss and the American Right) and published interviews for the following:

First: Strauss believed that a leader had to perpetually deceive the citizens he ruled.

Secondly: Those who lead must understand there is no morality, there is only the right of the superior to rule the inferior.

Thirdly: According to Drury, Religion “is the glue that holds society together.”<40> It is a handle by which the ruler can manipulate the masses. (my emphasis /jc) Any religion will do. Strauss is indifferent to them all.

Fourthly: “Secular society…is the worst possible thing,” because it leads to individualism, liberalism, and relativism, all of which encourage dissent and rebellion. As Drury sums it up: “You want a crowd that you can manipulate like putty.”<41>

Fifthly: “Strauss thinks that a political order can be stable only if it is united by an external threat; and following Machiavelli, he maintains that if no external threat exists, then one has to be manufactured.”<42>

Sixthly: “In Strauss’s view, the trouble with liberal society is that it dispenses with noble lies and pious frauds. It tries to found society on secular rational foundations.”

The Despoiling of America

These neocon SOBs are using and promoting religion as a means to keep the sheep under control. In a way it's like a form of brainwashing. After all if you are a good Christian believer and your religious leaders (Falwell, Robertson etc)tell you God has anointed Dubya to lead the country, if someone says Dubya is really an incompetent, undereducated, intellectually challenged, shallow-minded buffoon it's obvious that person must have been sent by the Devil to lead you astray and put your immortal soul in peril of eternal damnation and hell fire.

Authorities have been using religion and the fear of the consequences of displeasing God (or gods) to maintain control of people since time immemorial, we are just seeing the latest evidence of this set before us.