Alexandra Pelosi’s Friends of God Documentary February 14, 2007
Posted by ejtower in Bible, Christianity, Evolution, Jerry Falwell, Ted Haggard, Video, creationism.trackback
In this Documentary produced by HBO, Alexandra Pelosi travels around the United States taking a look into the lives and teachings of the evangelical christian culture. The Documentary features such importaint and interesting evangelicals as Ted Haggard (speaking again very ironically about sex lives), and Jerry Falwell.
A synopsis of the documentary can be found here on HBO’s site. Unlike the documentary makers of Jesus Camp who sought to keep themselves seperate and unquestioning of the people they were filming, Alexandra Pelosi’s style is more of an interview where she asks the pointed questions that people who question the evangelical movement would really like to ask. You can get an idea about the style of the documentary by watching below…
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Since only 8% of the population is literate in science this video is not surprising. People suck on the pacifier of faith to try and get to immortality. These type people are narcisstic and arrogant. They are no better than the 10,000 religions and sects who think their answers are the right ones that will open up the gates of heaven.
I read an interview where Pelosi admired evangelicals for being “committed to their cause,” as if she didn’t realize that the same could be said about the Aryan Nation or the KKK. In this article here, http://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/11/movies/11pelo.html?ex=1326171600&en=706c2251b4180b4a&ei=5090&partner=rssuserland&emc=rss, she also spoke highly of them. The same is true here: http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/story?id=2813078&page=1. What I dislike is how she intends to make her two-month-old son a churchgoer, insisting it will keep him from becoming an extremist (you actually think religious indoctrination at a young age will keep children from turning into extremists?) and equating “secualr” with “bad role models,” confirming the prejudice most Americans have that religious people are better influences than the non-religious. Perhaps we secular folks need to improve our image, but I do not wish to be blamed for the misconception of religion as a necessity.