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Post by Shane for Wax on Oct 27, 2010 11:14:11 GMT -5
That's where I got my knowledge about them, too. And I greatly empathize with Fred at the end. Fuck Fundies. All they're achieving is giving Christians a bad name. (To answer the original post's question, no, I've never been in one, for multiple reasons.) Exactly. Poor Fred though. At the end the artist has this to say: People assume most Christians are heavy-handed, pushy, intolerant bigots bent of dominating any other culture or idea and supplanting it with their own whims because, for the most part, the ones who speak up the most ARE heavy-handed, pushy, intolerant bigots bent on dominating any other culture or idea and supplanting it with their own whims. It sucks. It's horrible. And it's the what everyone of any faith, political idea, or lifestyle has to deal with. People always focus on the loud minority who ruins everything. And like any other group, the only way you can combat this is making your views and, in this case, your kindness and actual testimony louder than the hateful prattle of those hurting your beliefs.
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Post by impatiens on Oct 27, 2010 13:30:19 GMT -5
Yes! That covers my reaction to vee's clips pretty well. Except substitute suicide and probably abortion and AIDS for 9-11. In the case of the teen suicide (the one I have direct experience with, having been a suicidal teen), my reaction was pretty much "Fuck you! Fuck you! Fuck you! How fucking dare you use depression as some freak show attraction and as some tool to score cheap religious points! Fuck you!"
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Post by Shane for Wax on Oct 27, 2010 15:37:23 GMT -5
I'd probably go ballistic if someone tried to take me to a Hell House. And if I even made my way inside? My cane would be knocking some heads!
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Post by clockworkgirl21 on Oct 28, 2010 5:20:50 GMT -5
I went to a "play" at my uncle's church once. The first scene was a family being excited they're meeting their daughter at the airport and going to Hawaii. The next scene was at the airport, and they see their daughter has turned away from God because of her boyfriend. Her sister talks her back into Christianity. They hug, and the boyfriend rolls his eyes. The next scene terrorists take over the plane and kill everyone. Next scene is Hell, and the boyfriend is being tortured. Final scene is the family in Heaven. No one seems to mind that the boyfriend is missing.
I laughed my ass off throughout the entire thing, and was almost kicked out.
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Post by Thejebusfire on Oct 28, 2010 23:51:56 GMT -5
I've never been to hell house before, but I've been to a play that was somewhat simular as child.
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Post by peanutfan on Oct 29, 2010 8:26:21 GMT -5
I've never been to a hell house before, but I'd like to visit one sometime just for shits and giggles.
I also got conned into playing the "raptured fundie" in a high-school film project that was a "Left Behind" ripoff. The most hilarious thing about that memory is that my role had me acting in ways no fundie at my school ever acted (y'know, turnign the other cheek and showing compassion). I'm alternately ashamed and amused at my childhood need to fit in with people who hated me.
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Post by godlesspanther on Nov 2, 2010 20:24:52 GMT -5
I think it would be funny to make a "heaven house" scare show. Heaven would be this horribly boring place where nobody would ever want to go. It's funny that they are so eager to portray hell as a place where one would definitely not want to spend eternity but I have yet to see heaven portrayed as a place where any sane person would want to be forever.
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Post by Shane for Wax on Nov 2, 2010 23:15:37 GMT -5
what would there be to do in Heaven? I often asked in church (back before I became an 'icky heathen Pagan') I never got an answer that made me really want to go to heaven. Their heaven is like my purgatory.
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Post by Thejebusfire on Nov 2, 2010 23:45:33 GMT -5
I did a search for paintings of heaven and I found one image that looked like Tritan's kingdom from the Little Mermaid movie. I also found...This: www.godscare.com/hell/homesweet.jpg
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Post by Shane for Wax on Nov 3, 2010 2:44:11 GMT -5
why is the word 'hell' in there?
The general environment resembles what some people say Summerland looks like.
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Post by MaybeNever on Nov 3, 2010 3:27:47 GMT -5
Sure, it looks great, but none of the people there are anatomically correct!
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Post by tolpuddlemartyr on Nov 3, 2010 4:54:04 GMT -5
Sounds like the script for most 80's slasher flicks. "If you go into the woods and practice pre - marital French Kissing the axe murderer will surely dismember you slowly, bwahahaha sinners beware!"
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Post by Thejebusfire on Nov 3, 2010 17:41:19 GMT -5
why is the word 'hell' in there? The general environment resembles what some people say Summerland looks like. Take off the last part and it takes you to a site where you can "tour" both heaven and hell. I did the hell one. The only scary thing was how boring it was.
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Post by Admiral Lithp on Nov 3, 2010 18:55:23 GMT -5
You know what struck me in that YouTube clip? Wasn't the girl for the "teen suicide" section the one who was raped in the "rave" section?
That's all kinds of unfortunate implications right there.
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Post by Thejebusfire on Nov 7, 2010 23:47:43 GMT -5
Yeap. And I bet she went to hell for it too.
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