Kirk Cameron Scares Me
he had some creepy informercial on (on a saturday morning) about converting people to christianity.
can't stand that sh*t. he has the audacity to assume that he has the answers to everyone else's problems.
actually, it's the way he responded to fame, which i can sort of understand, since being a child star must mess with your head more than i'll ever know. it must be so damaging to have the pieces and parts of your personality formed in such a way that you feel your only value is the one assigned to you by studio execs, pushy parents, competitive co-stars, your paycheck, movie critics, etc., that the only way to survive is by becoming other than who you really are. no wonder so many kids have it so hard who started as child stars.
i think michael jackson is guilty of child molestation, and i think it's a result of the abuse he suffered on so many levels as a kid. none of it is ok. i think he's fundamentally incapable of taking responsibility for his behavior, which explains why he keeps skipping court dates, overspending, not paying his employees, and living in overseas.
anyway, i'm just terribly afraid of evangelicals because they reek of insincerity and hypocrisy and unhealed trauma. gives me the creeps. one of the things i admire about jewish folks is that they don't try to convert others; they just keep to themselves and practice what they believe with quiet humility. i believe that fundamentalism--of any kind--attracts people for psychological reasons, not religious or spiritual ones. in my opinion, well-adjusted people can hold contradictions and uncertainties and gray areas and be OK with them; spiritually small people cannot.
i was in minneapolis several years ago, and found several christians trying to convert people by subversive means, which seems antithetical to the very idea of god or what christianity purports to be, to me.
and what's up with these weird people who come door to door, trying to convert? what do they care about what i believe? they're all wounded people trying to deal with it by barking up the wrong tree, in my opinion.
some poor guy came by awhile ago, trying to convince me that evolution was false and creationism true. he had a series of dvds with him, so i thought i'd humor him by watching one. the poor "scientist" on the dvd didn't even have his facts about Einstein's theories right. how could they expect me to take their argument seriously? what i really wanted to ask this religion-salesman were questions about his family life--where was he from, what was his relationship with his family like, what his current relationships are like etc., because i was mortally certain i could predict every response of his.
he was also extremely nervous, which doesn't bode well for the faith he proclaims to embrace, and is another reason i suspect hidden psychological motives for "evangelism" on his part.
it's amazing to me how homosexuality is such a divisive issue. it would not surprise me at all that people climb on board with the evangelicals just to avoid dealing with their fear of people who seem different. it's ok to be afraid of difference, but it's not ok to live an unexamined life, and even less so to organize around that fear against those who appear, at first glance, to be "different."
i just can't stand cowardice, because i have never been afforded the luxury to harbor it, while all kinds of people i see every day do, and then they have the nerve to judge others based upon their own ignorance and small-mindedness and the fact that fate has been kinder to them than to me.
can't stand that sh*t. he has the audacity to assume that he has the answers to everyone else's problems.
actually, it's the way he responded to fame, which i can sort of understand, since being a child star must mess with your head more than i'll ever know. it must be so damaging to have the pieces and parts of your personality formed in such a way that you feel your only value is the one assigned to you by studio execs, pushy parents, competitive co-stars, your paycheck, movie critics, etc., that the only way to survive is by becoming other than who you really are. no wonder so many kids have it so hard who started as child stars.
i think michael jackson is guilty of child molestation, and i think it's a result of the abuse he suffered on so many levels as a kid. none of it is ok. i think he's fundamentally incapable of taking responsibility for his behavior, which explains why he keeps skipping court dates, overspending, not paying his employees, and living in overseas.
anyway, i'm just terribly afraid of evangelicals because they reek of insincerity and hypocrisy and unhealed trauma. gives me the creeps. one of the things i admire about jewish folks is that they don't try to convert others; they just keep to themselves and practice what they believe with quiet humility. i believe that fundamentalism--of any kind--attracts people for psychological reasons, not religious or spiritual ones. in my opinion, well-adjusted people can hold contradictions and uncertainties and gray areas and be OK with them; spiritually small people cannot.
i was in minneapolis several years ago, and found several christians trying to convert people by subversive means, which seems antithetical to the very idea of god or what christianity purports to be, to me.
and what's up with these weird people who come door to door, trying to convert? what do they care about what i believe? they're all wounded people trying to deal with it by barking up the wrong tree, in my opinion.
some poor guy came by awhile ago, trying to convince me that evolution was false and creationism true. he had a series of dvds with him, so i thought i'd humor him by watching one. the poor "scientist" on the dvd didn't even have his facts about Einstein's theories right. how could they expect me to take their argument seriously? what i really wanted to ask this religion-salesman were questions about his family life--where was he from, what was his relationship with his family like, what his current relationships are like etc., because i was mortally certain i could predict every response of his.
he was also extremely nervous, which doesn't bode well for the faith he proclaims to embrace, and is another reason i suspect hidden psychological motives for "evangelism" on his part.
it's amazing to me how homosexuality is such a divisive issue. it would not surprise me at all that people climb on board with the evangelicals just to avoid dealing with their fear of people who seem different. it's ok to be afraid of difference, but it's not ok to live an unexamined life, and even less so to organize around that fear against those who appear, at first glance, to be "different."
i just can't stand cowardice, because i have never been afforded the luxury to harbor it, while all kinds of people i see every day do, and then they have the nerve to judge others based upon their own ignorance and small-mindedness and the fact that fate has been kinder to them than to me.
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