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I was reading in Salon the other day (here, in fact) about how Mel "The Pope is Too Liberal" Gibson and whoever is crazy enough to distribute his [sadomasochistic masturbatory fantasty] *ahem* religious film have enlisted the evangelical megachurches to do... well, things like comment-spamming ljs with 'hey i liek ur site. check 0ut this Passion of the Christ movie! [link]!" It doesn't actually say anything about livejournal in the article, but I've heard tell.
My big question is how Mel got the Bible Belt on board since one of the more serious irritating things common among evangelical Protestant sects is an irrational anti-Catholicism. Even in the church I used to attend, where senior members issued invitations from the pulpit to join a group that's dressing up to go see Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, this sort of Catholics-are-bad came up - so I don't know where he found enough folks to sign on. PARTICULARLY since the ickier, bloodier bits of the film are apparently drawn not from the scriptural accounts, but from the visions of a medieval saint. And a lot of non-liturgical Protestants, even the apathetic ones that I grew up going to church with, get hives about saints. You should have heard the scene at coffee hour when the Minister of Education dared to tell the kids at the children's moment about All Saints Day.
Oh! And another thing - if Mel's all pre-Vatican-II, what's he doing playing nice with the Protestants? Pre-Second Vatican Council, it was a sin for a Catholic to enter a Protestant church.
My big question is how Mel got the Bible Belt on board since one of the more serious irritating things common among evangelical Protestant sects is an irrational anti-Catholicism. Even in the church I used to attend, where senior members issued invitations from the pulpit to join a group that's dressing up to go see Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, this sort of Catholics-are-bad came up - so I don't know where he found enough folks to sign on. PARTICULARLY since the ickier, bloodier bits of the film are apparently drawn not from the scriptural accounts, but from the visions of a medieval saint. And a lot of non-liturgical Protestants, even the apathetic ones that I grew up going to church with, get hives about saints. You should have heard the scene at coffee hour when the Minister of Education dared to tell the kids at the children's moment about All Saints Day.
Oh! And another thing - if Mel's all pre-Vatican-II, what's he doing playing nice with the Protestants? Pre-Second Vatican Council, it was a sin for a Catholic to enter a Protestant church.