Posted by bofinger at 216.111.243.130 on January 18, 2000 at 22:53:03:
i had this sent to me form an old christian friend that dosent know im a big kevin smith fan....
> > We are starting an e-mail campaign to raise awareness over a movie that
> > has been marketed as a comedy. This weekend my husband and I went to
see a movie called "Dogma".
> >
> > The stars in the movie are Matt Damon, Ben Afleck and Chris Rock. We
> > thought it would be a good movie since we knew the actors, and the
> > movie trailers we had seen for the movie led us to believe it was a
> > comedy about three angels. We thought it would be a movie like John
> > Travolta's angel movie. We were really wrong on our expectations of
> > this movie. Matt and I have never walked out on a movie, but after
> > sitting through 45 minutes, we felt we had to leave because of the way
> > the angels were portrayed. In the 45 minutes we watched the movie,
> > they had an angel pull his pants down to show he was not anatomically
> > correct and then make several references about it, Matt Damon (one of
> > the angels) shot 7 people (he shot the people because he found a
> > loophole on how to get into Heaven after killing people), Chris Rock
> > fell from the sky stark naked, at least four or five profane words were
> > spoken in every sentence, and they did away with crucifix and had
> > another portrayal for Jesus (he was winking and giving a thumbs up
> > sign). They also had a derogatory slang term they were using for Jesus.
> >
> > The movie was so appalling and so against the Christian Faith that Matt
> > and I apologized in prayer to God for having gone to see the movie. We
> > both felt like God was taking names on who was seeing this movie. I
> > think the Devil produced this movie; I can't even begin to describe
how appalling and how immoral this movie is.
> >> > Please pass this e-mail on to other Christians so they know not to go
> > see this movie and so that they can warn others about the movie. It is
> > really scary to think that a lot of our youth are going to see this
> > movie. Chris Rock, Ben Afleck, and Matt Damon are stars that teenagers
> > go to the movies to see.
> >> > Please forward this message on to other Christian people, so we can try
> > to put a stop to this movie and so that we can show Hollywood by low
> > ticket sales that we are not going to put up with these kinds of
> > portrayals of Angels and God.
> > Thanks!