Posted by Walt Flanagan's Dog at 63.64.156.55 on January 19, 2000 at 08:30:47:
In Reply to: funny anti dogma stuff posted by bofinger 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!