For The Bible Tells Me So

[Meadow]

Was looking at the blog page of a cardiologist in Arizona who I really respect, and came upon her reference of this new full length documentary on how many persons choose to interpret the bible in order to further their own hate. I'm not sure when it is going to be released, but the movie trailer is worth looking at by itself. It can be seen at:

http://www.forthebibletellsmeso.org/

I came away moved by the positive message of this documentary.

Meadow

[Betsy]

I was hoping to post a link but for some reason, dailykos.com isn't loading for me. Anyways, one of the diary posters there is on a mission to write a book based upon short, informal encounters/interviews with people in 'red' states. Recently, he was in Oklahoma and was asking people what they thought about the president, the war, and other political stuff. When asked where she got her news about the war at one lady replied, "From the bible and the 700 club".

I guess she is reading revelations.

Betsy

[Betsy]

Here's the link I wrote about (but couldn't access earlier):

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2005/8/19/102333/065

Meadow, I really enjoyed the trailer. Thanks for sharing that link.

[Meadow]

Thanks, Betsy, for your words. I was concerned somewhat in retrospect on the title of the thread, feeling as though it may have been somewhat misleading with regard to the ultimate content. I have revisited the trailer a couple of more times. I am really looking forward to its release.

I liked the gas pump interview in your link. Its probably a good thing that my opinion was not sought. Every time I pull up to the pumps . . . . well, my body language from a safe distance probably says enough!!

Meadow

[Morgan]

Hi

I've been reading a lot of blogs recently, too. It seems likea good way of keeping in touch with people when you're on the other side of the planet (my visa came through so it's going to happen to me fairly soon).

It's also a good way of finding out what other people really think, and why. "For the Bible Tells Me So" looks interesting, and I hope it's a success. Desmond Tutu is always great :)

Reading the material in the Daily Kos blog link, though, makes me think that some minds are just so closed that nothing is capable of making people interpret the world around them for themselves. Will they even see the movie, or just get told in advance that they shouldn't see it? And I find that incredibly scary.

Thanks, Meadow and Betsy for posting the links.

M

[Dana Gold]

First of all, thank you, Meadow, for posting the link that bares the mindset of these individuals to public scrutiny. However , the “Bible tells me so” is only a surface phenomena, as far as I’m concerned, that has it’s roots in the proverbial “correct and control” machinations of certain elements of humankind that has existed since antiquity and has been “perfected” by the subsequent progeny of the “founders”....and, during their "metastasizing", forcibly promoting their idealism with a deranged and frenzied zeal.
An excerpt from an article (link below it) that examines the fundamentalism of Middle Eastern religion (Islam), which many Westerners are now focusing on….and unwittingly turning their heads the other way and ignoring the rise of fundamentalism here in the form of many Western religious groups.. and now, American government. ("faith-based conservatives"...i.e. the "Christian Right")

The connections between sexual repression, extreme violence and a male obsession with war and death are recognisable in the West. In America Christian Reconstructionists, a fundamentalist sect, also advocate the death penalty for adultery, homosexuality and “unchastity before marriage” (but for women only). Studies of the psychology of Fascism show how the Nazi cult of obeying, adoring and fearing the Führer is rooted in the patriarchal family obeying, adoring and fearing the father. The Nazis, like modern Islamic and Christian fundamentalists, were also obsessed with virgins and women as submissive housewives and perfect mothers. Their extreme masculinity values, above all else, male bonding and sacrificing their lives for the fatherland’s high ideals of racial or religious purity, with the promise of glorious martyrdom.
.........snip.......................
Arguably such societies are in the grip of mass psychosis. Like a paranoid psychotic they split the world between those they hopelessly idealise as pure and good, and those they denigrate as evil and out to destroy them. It is not unusual for a paranoid psychotic to nurture delusions of grandeur and an imaginary hotline to God.

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,1072-1739644,00.html
some minds are just so closed..I find that incredibly scary.
That such extremists are exerting their control in governments/societies worldwide is even more scarier.

[Dana Gold]

When asked where she got her news about the war at one lady replied, "From the bible and the 700 club".
She won't like this then:

Excerpt from link below it

Media Matters Calls on ABC Family to Discontinue Robertson Broadcasts

Media Matters for America is urging ABC Family to stop showing Pat Robertson's The 700 Club. ABC Family shows The 700 Club three times a day.

Robertson, 700 Club host and founder of the Christian Coalition of America, has a history of vitriolic and false statements, as Media Matters has pointed out.

In addition to urging the assassination of a foreign leader……..

http://releases.usnewswire.com/GetRelease.asp?id=52001

And here’s why:…excerpt from link below

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Conservative U.S. evangelist Pat Robertson called for the assassination of Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, but top U.S. officials denied on Tuesday that any such act was being contemplated -- and noted it would be illegal.
The founder of the Christian Coalition said during the Monday night television broadcast of his religious program, "The 700 Club," that Chavez, one the most vocal critics of President George W. Bush, was a "terrific danger" to the United States and wanted his country to become "the launching pad for communist infiltration and Muslim extremism.

http://today.reuters.com/news/NewsArticle.aspx?type=domesticNews&storyID=2005-08-23T192933Z_01_SCH362917_RTRIDST_0_USREPORT-VENEZUELA-ROBERTSON-DC.XML

"Kill 'Em All, Let God Sort 'Em Out"
-Pat Robertson