3 posts from November 2009

Poor Carrie Prejean, you are another victim of the anti-Christian majority minority. You said, “No one came to my defense really.”

How true. How true. No one came to your defense really ... other than:

The people who applauded you when you gave your answer,

Donald Trump who said you could keep your job even after the Pageant Officials found that you had breached your contract,

The National Organization for Marriage who sang your praises and booked you at their events,

All the other groups who have hired you as a speaker for all those events you’ve been (not) going to,

The legion of right wing radio talk show hosts and all their devoted fans who called in and praised your bravery and devotion,

Every anchor and guest on Fox News including Sean Hannity who had you on his TV show right after the hoopla began and wrote the forward to your book,

Which reminds, the publishers of your book, who paid you big money to state your opinion again,

Umm, your family, I presume, like the sister you mentioned on Hannity who you said was disgusted by how you were treated,

And Jesus.

Jolly, Carrie, don’t any of those rich, powerful people count?

Not even Jesus?

Carrie Prejean wants us to know that her sex tape of her as a minor masturbating isn’t that bad a thing because she “loved and cared about” the guy she sent it to. And that when you think some guy “is the one,” it’s understandable that you’d do something like this. Even Hannity suggests that “a boyfriend you loved” is something that should be considered when we look at the act of creating such a recording.

So just to recap, according to Prejean and Hannity, loving and carrying about someone, who you think is the one, is a justification for creating and distributing child porn, but not for allowing consenting adults to marry each other if they are of the same gender.

Thanks for clearing that up, kids.

The Lost Tomb of Jesus

Amazon is having a having a sale on their science fiction material and in the 60% or more off section of the scifi sale section, they are selling The Lost Tomb of Jesus, described on the site thusly:

Product Description

The feature-length widescreen Director’s Cut of the Discovery Channel special – executive produced by James Cameron. In 1980, a bulldozer accidentally uncovered a first-century tomb in Jerusalem. Of the ten ossuaries (stone coffins) found inside, six bore inscriptions: Jesus son of Joseph, Maria, Mariamene (the name by which Mary Magdalene was known), Joseph, Matthew, and Judah son of Jesus. Dismissed by archaeologists as coincidence, the ossuaries were warehoused and forgotten. Twenty-five years later, filmmaker Simcha Jacobovici and his team took a fresh look at this astounding cluster of New Testament names. Granted unparalleled access, they went in search of the ossuaries…and the lost tomb. What they found may well be the most controversial archaeological discovery of all time.

 

Features 80 minutes of exclusive bonus materials including:
Interviews with executive producer James Cameron and director Simcha Jacobovici
Expert Interviews: The Discovery 1980, Judeo Christians, The Early Christian Cluster of Evidence, The Sign of the Cross, The Chevron Symbol, Mariamne
The Recreations: Behind the Scenes
The Lost Tomb of Jesus Epilogue featuring James Cameron and Simcha Jacobovici
Photo Gallery

Trailer

It’s right between Hunter X Hunter, Vol. 2, the manga based story of a boy who trains for his Hunter license that will allow him to hunt magical treasures, mythical beasts and even people, and Dreamscape, a film about psychics who battle in the realm of the President’s nightmares with the threat of a nuclear holocaust hanging in the balance.

Thank you, Amazon, for putting the Jesus myth in the same category! You are decades, if not centuries, ahead of your time. Prepare for the hate mail that I'm sure will end once you've explain that it's only there because it's producer, James Cameron, also directed The Terminator. Yep, Fox News and the wingnuts will completely fail to see an anti-Christian conspiracy.

Also super cool was that there were a lot of photos on the site for the recreations of biblical scenes that were included with the DVD. The recreation photos were entitled things like “Recreations - Jesus preaches in market,” “Recreations - Mother Mary & Mary Magdalene morn Jesus' death,” and “Recreations - Jesus' family and followers grieve, skeleton is prepared for ossuary” and then there was the photo captioned  "Recreations - Simcha directing Jesus."

Recreations - Simcha directing Jesus

I think we all remember that scene in Luke, chapter 12, were Simcha Jacobovici told Jesus to try the scene again but this time with more feeling. And it is great to see that it has been recreated for this DVD.