Posted by Silent Smith at hlfx20-23.ns.sympatico.ca on December 15, 1999 at 20:57:10:
Well, I was bored and in need for a good laugh so I decided to read the ever so entertaining hate mail section. Once again there are the right winged Crhistians who beleive that the people from DISNEY/MIRAMAX are behind the ever delightful comedy "DOGMA".
Again there are people boycotting Disney and condemming it to hell because of "Dogma". Now correct me if I'm wrong, but didn't Disney drop the title and now Lion's Gate Films pick it up? Can't these people at least get their damn facts straight before going on their religious crusades against a company who DROPPED the title so people like that don't make a big fuss over it. Also they act like Disney came up with the idea for this film. They should at least give credit where credit is due!! It's Kevin's film for god's sake!! I also read some of the letters attacking "liberal Jews." What the hell is with that now? We all know that Kevin is a Catholic.
Hell, this movie encouragesthe belief in God than insults it. As WWF superstar (and new IC champ) Chris Jericho said, "This film does a better job at turning people to The Lord than turn them away from him," or something along that line. For those of you who didn't know, Jericho is a strong Catholic.
I think Taking some shots at Religion is like looking at flaws in humanity. people wrote the Bible, not God, so more than likely stuff were exaggerated. The Bible does promote alot of moral values and Kevin doesn't attack the Bible for saying them. What about the cursing, violence, sex and drugs in the film? Well PEOPLE in the modern day world have sex, curse, are sometimes violent and some of them do drugs. It's reality!! I mean try to picture Jay say three sentences without cursing!
Seeing how these Christians attack Dogma, here are a list of of things they should attack:
-End of Days: A movie about Satan trying to take over the world. EVIL!
-Micheal: You know, with John Travolta, an angel who smokes, drinks and curses! Blasphemous I tells ya!
-City of Angels: An angel becomes human and has sex. nuff said
-Star Wars: They are telling us that the universe is contolled by an all powerful force. Where does God fit into that!
-Disney's Hercules: They are telling us to worship false idols! Eeeviiiillll! Eeeeeeevvvvvvvvviiiiiiiiiillllllllllllllllll!!!!
-Sesame Street: Bert and Ernie have been living together for 30 years and not once have I ever seen a girl in their appartement! Also it seems that we should woship false idols such as the letter "L"! And there is a vampire
teaching children to count, aren't vampires the lapdogs of Satan? No wonder today's youth are so corrupt!
One last thing to any right winged Christians......................... doesn't the Bible say "Judge not lest ye be judged"?
SS