Issue 35
In case you didn't know, the previous post was an april Fool's Day joke.
News: Pat Robertson.
We all know that name. He has hosted The 700 Club for years, and has once ran for Republican presidential nominee, hoping to break the wall of separation between Church and state. Let's take a look back at some of his more controversial claims. On at least three occasions, there were hurricanes headed for his studio, and each time he claims that his prayer got the hurricane out of their direction and just last year he claimed that he was responsible for the two vacancies in the Supreme court after a 21-day prayer campaign. One particularly shocking quote came from Jerry Falwell on his show, wherein he said that pagans, feminists, abortionists, homosexuals, the ACLU, and other entities like that helped bring the World Trade Reichstag, I mean, Centre towers down. Robertson agreed on the appearance, aired 3 short days after the towers fell. Falwell claimed his remarks were taken out of context (which they weren't), and Robertson claimed that he wasn't really listening (which he probably was). On another program, he claimed that he supported China's one child policy, with its mandated abortions, which shows his hypocricy when one remembers that fundementalist Christians are always "Pro Life". One other particularly notable remark last year showed him calling for the assassination of Hugo Chavez, president of Venezuela, which had even more people against him, and he apologized two days later on his show, although he did reaffirm his original statement on the February 2nd, 2006 edition of Hannity and Colmes. Later, he addressed the citizens of Dover, Pennsylvania, which fired 7 councilmembers who supported bringing "Intelligent Design" into science classrooms (and it isn't even science), by saying that they rejected god because of their firings and hoped that their town was laid waste in a disaster. Unlike other statements, he did not apologize for this one. In January of this year, he claimed that Ariel Sharon's stoke was punishment by God for his pulling out of the Gaza Strip. Of Course, maybe his age of 80 or so had something to do with it. His remarks ensured that he was excluded from a project for a Pilgrimage site in Israel, and he apologized to Sharon's son a week later after he heard the news, but the fallout still surrounds him to this day. One final remark of note, which was just spoken two weeks ago was that he reviewed a book about 101 Liberal Professors in America, and he claimed that those 101 are just the tip of the iceberg and claimed that there are over 30-40,000 Liberal Professors in America's Colleges which, as he claims, are all murderers, Deviants, and AL-Qaeda Supporters, playing on a surprisingly common assumption in fundementalist Christianity, which is most likely present in some sects of most religions, that all people who aren't fundementalist Christians are evil. There are probably more controversial statements coming from Pat, but there's not enough room here, so I'll move on to my band names section.
Band Name of the Day: Grunzor. I wish I knew where this name came from, but I guess it popped into my head.
Film Idea of the Day: A film adaption of Wise Blood done in a similar fashion to my Catcher in the Rye screenplay. Wise Blood is Reviewed Below.
Film Review of the Day: Wise Blood. It is based on the novel by Flannery O'Connor about the career of a Religious Nihilistic fanatic named Hazel Motes who goes about creating the Church of Christ without Christ. The plot alone interested me, the cinematography was very striking, and Motes (played by Brad "P-P-p-please don't tell my mother" Dourif) seems to be worthy of helping influence the portrayal of Holden Caulfield in my future miniseries of The Catcher in the Rye. One would be very fortunate to find a copy at this time, but there isn't a DVD or even VHS issue out at the moment.
Quote of the Day: "Cursed is he who fills the Body of Christ with Barvarian Creme."
________________Pat Robertson, SNL January 2006.
Link of the Day: A pro-choice activist counter-protests a demonstration of Pro-Life activists with the Sign "Psa. 137:9"
News: Pat Robertson.
We all know that name. He has hosted The 700 Club for years, and has once ran for Republican presidential nominee, hoping to break the wall of separation between Church and state. Let's take a look back at some of his more controversial claims. On at least three occasions, there were hurricanes headed for his studio, and each time he claims that his prayer got the hurricane out of their direction and just last year he claimed that he was responsible for the two vacancies in the Supreme court after a 21-day prayer campaign. One particularly shocking quote came from Jerry Falwell on his show, wherein he said that pagans, feminists, abortionists, homosexuals, the ACLU, and other entities like that helped bring the World Trade Reichstag, I mean, Centre towers down. Robertson agreed on the appearance, aired 3 short days after the towers fell. Falwell claimed his remarks were taken out of context (which they weren't), and Robertson claimed that he wasn't really listening (which he probably was). On another program, he claimed that he supported China's one child policy, with its mandated abortions, which shows his hypocricy when one remembers that fundementalist Christians are always "Pro Life". One other particularly notable remark last year showed him calling for the assassination of Hugo Chavez, president of Venezuela, which had even more people against him, and he apologized two days later on his show, although he did reaffirm his original statement on the February 2nd, 2006 edition of Hannity and Colmes. Later, he addressed the citizens of Dover, Pennsylvania, which fired 7 councilmembers who supported bringing "Intelligent Design" into science classrooms (and it isn't even science), by saying that they rejected god because of their firings and hoped that their town was laid waste in a disaster. Unlike other statements, he did not apologize for this one. In January of this year, he claimed that Ariel Sharon's stoke was punishment by God for his pulling out of the Gaza Strip. Of Course, maybe his age of 80 or so had something to do with it. His remarks ensured that he was excluded from a project for a Pilgrimage site in Israel, and he apologized to Sharon's son a week later after he heard the news, but the fallout still surrounds him to this day. One final remark of note, which was just spoken two weeks ago was that he reviewed a book about 101 Liberal Professors in America, and he claimed that those 101 are just the tip of the iceberg and claimed that there are over 30-40,000 Liberal Professors in America's Colleges which, as he claims, are all murderers, Deviants, and AL-Qaeda Supporters, playing on a surprisingly common assumption in fundementalist Christianity, which is most likely present in some sects of most religions, that all people who aren't fundementalist Christians are evil. There are probably more controversial statements coming from Pat, but there's not enough room here, so I'll move on to my band names section.
Band Name of the Day: Grunzor. I wish I knew where this name came from, but I guess it popped into my head.
Film Idea of the Day: A film adaption of Wise Blood done in a similar fashion to my Catcher in the Rye screenplay. Wise Blood is Reviewed Below.
Film Review of the Day: Wise Blood. It is based on the novel by Flannery O'Connor about the career of a Religious Nihilistic fanatic named Hazel Motes who goes about creating the Church of Christ without Christ. The plot alone interested me, the cinematography was very striking, and Motes (played by Brad "P-P-p-please don't tell my mother" Dourif) seems to be worthy of helping influence the portrayal of Holden Caulfield in my future miniseries of The Catcher in the Rye. One would be very fortunate to find a copy at this time, but there isn't a DVD or even VHS issue out at the moment.
Quote of the Day: "Cursed is he who fills the Body of Christ with Barvarian Creme."
________________Pat Robertson, SNL January 2006.
Link of the Day: A pro-choice activist counter-protests a demonstration of Pro-Life activists with the Sign "Psa. 137:9"
Labels: Figures, Religious Right
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