Thought for the Day 1/11/07

"Religion is a security blanket. No longer needing one to get through your day is an important part of growing up."

I believe that being raised in a faith is useful. It gives children a sense of order and justice in the universe, something to cling to. It also helps teach the basics like the golden rule and rights and wrongs. So, in this sense religion is kinda like training wheels for being a responsible, moral human being.

In today's world of single parent homes and two career households, the Mom's and the Dad's aren't always there to teach the big lessons and make sure the kids are getting them straight. That's why it's good to a have a study book like a bible where all the stuff is written down. But like in school, the books can be wrong or the answers controverted by new scientific data. Eventually, you have to cast them aside.

Wow, the analogies are really piling up around here.

My point is that we (America) have spent hundreds of billions of dollars and taken hundreds of thousands of lives in recent years fighting people who can't accept anything that controverts what their religions have taught them. We have a President who's core grip on reality and life, his ultimate guidance, comes from a book of often self contradicting and factually discredited texts. We are a nation led by a religious fundamentalist in a deathlock with other religious fundamentalists.

This must stop. Idealogical wars rarely ever end. They just have extended "time outs." I'd like to call a time out and give folks a little while to grow up a bit and leave their security blankets with Goodwill.

(See? It all tied back into that first lame analogy.)

Fox Faith, "Thr3e" and Nun-sploitation

Personally, I'm glad Fox Faith is producing stuff like the new horror movie "Thr3e." It's about time somebody exploited the Christian right market. Goodness knows, historically speaking Christians have seen fit to exploit everyone else throughout the world. But make no mistake, the Fox Corps is doing just that, exploiting people.

The Fox Faith division is using the guise of a "Christian message" as a tool to market weak, under budgeted and poorly made films. Does anyone really think a film of this substandard quality would have gotten the big promotional push it has from a major media machine unless there was a cynical marketing hook?

As far as a "Christian Horror" movie goes... well, I thought we'd been watching one every time we turned on the news and saw a Bush press conference or footage from Iraq. And let's not forget the classics, like the Crusades (it was a popular series), the Spanish Inquisition (kind of like "Who Wants To Be A Millionaire" if Regis sodomized all of the contestants to death with a branding iron) or the Colonization of the African Continent. That last one was the original "blaxploitation."

If this faith based horror thing goes well, I think we can expect to see a lot more films like it being sold to the Walmart shopping crowd. With the popularity of a movie titled "Black Christmas," why not a horror movie called "Easter: Look Who's Rising Now"? Or maybe a Jewish themed horror movie, "Hannu-KILL."

Just wait for Fox Faith to start using other genre's to exploit the devout. I think the one we're all waiting for is Christian themed porn. I can just see it, a whole new genre: "nun-sploitation." How about "Trinity: A Holy Gang Bang." She's taking on the Father, the Son and the Holy Cross football team."

Yup, this Fox Faith thing is a masterstroke.

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Thoughts for the day 01/07/07

Having sex is like riding a bike. Once your uncle teaches you, you never forget. No matter how much you spend on therapy.

I'm reasonably certain that most of 50 Cent's gun shot wounds are from disputes over feminist literature. I could be wrong.

Technically I think the "Children of the Corn" should be called "niblets." And then, how scary can they really be?

Sometimes sex makes me sad. Usually those are the times when I walk in on my girlfriend having it with someone else.