Jesus: Now Appearing Five Nights A Week!
Living in the Ozark Mountains, one thing I see a lot of is religious kitsch. People here frickin' love their Jesus and the result is that...well, quite frankly they lose it. We have a weirdo creationist museum, more televangelists than should be allowed and, best of all, a home grown Passion Play. If you'd like a little peek into the world of the Ozarks, here is an article describing this play. I've even been to it, my family used to drag me there every year. Ugh. Anyway, this article is interesting because it describes some of the anti-semitic history of this particular production. Reading this makes me appreciate my Christian bloggin' friends even more. It's been nice to come across individuals who have faith but reject the hate and fear that I see a lot of around here.

6 Comments:
At 2:44 AM,
Sheryl said…
When I was a little kid we visited the Ozarks. Let me think. It was 1976, I think, and it was the Ozark Folk Center in Mountain View. It pretty cool.
I don't remember Arkansas being all religious then.I wonder if its the Bush influence. It seems to have pervasively brainwashed a lot of people in this part of the country in general.
The people I have seen who call themselves fundamentalists look very unhappy to me. Maybe they are inserting subliminal messages in the music they play at church services or something. The zealots all look a bit brainwashed.
At 10:21 AM,
Impulsivecompulsive said…
"Reading this makes me appreciate my Christian bloggin' friends even more."
I've been trying to convince one of my friends to start a blog, she's Christian, but has been avoiding church for the past year because of the attendees. (It's not an easy time to be a young, left wing feminist Christian studying environmental science.) I think it's about an aging population reminiscing about the past.
And that's in slightly mellower Canada.
At 1:27 AM,
Sheryl said…
Impulsive Compulsive,
Tell your friend to check of the unitarians.
I'm very non-religious, but if I had to be religious, I'd probably be a unitarian.
But really humanism is what I would recommend to those who are looking for moral communities to join.
At 1:29 AM,
Sheryl said…
I mean "check out." not check of. X-)
I sure wish you could edit comments in Blogger the way you can edit entries.
At 7:52 PM,
Impulsivecompulsive said…
Sheryl, thanks. I know she was into humanism when she lived in Toronto, but there is no humanist group in Vancouver. Strange, that.
At 2:24 AM,
Sheryl said…
Maybe there is a new one. The address for the British Columbia Humanists is in Vancouver:
http://www.bchumanist.ca/
BCHA
Suite 400, 3495 Cambie Street
Vancouver BC V5Z 4R3
TEL / FAX: 604-921-9827
info@bchumanist.ca
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