Posted by vedis at 128.164.171.211 on November 21, 1999 at 15:23:01:
hey dudes.
ok. so i saw dogma last week. and it was soooooooo good (yes, thanks, i am a fan of understatement). it reminded me why i believed in god. and i laughed my ass off. which is always a nice combination. (honestly- the funniest part was the disclaimer...)
anyway. of course there were the usual catholics protesting something that hadn't seen outside the theatre. so after seeing the movie, my friend and i decided to have a chat with them. the thing that startled me the most was that not only had these cats not seen the flik, but they also hadn't read the sctipt, as they claimed- they had a very very small poriton of the script that they claimed to be blashphemous (CONTEXT, PEOPLE- damn, people with closed minds piss me off). so my friend and i sauntered up and challenged them . it was great- the guy i was talking to- the head honcho, i assume, who came over to help because i'd befuddled one of his minions- had the worst arguments i'd ever heard, for one thing, he hasn't read the entire bible (my reaction being if you're gonna try and preach something about faith, you damn well better know more about it than i do- yes i have read the whole book thanks, and has anyone besides me noticed how many contradictions there are between some of the books? anyway). he hadn't read the entire script, and he was claiming to be offended. the funniest thing, though, was when he claimed that god was portrayed in the movie as a "pornographic rock star" (my friend- who's bi- is going 'she's pornographic? really, where can i get my hands on that?')- like- it's an *actor*. they don't *really* think god looks like that....
anyway. i thought i'd share my dogma thing.
peace out y'all
*god plays skeeball*