"Woe to you, Oh Earth and Sea ..."
I was just going to write about how today is 06-06-06, but then Julia Stiles came on TV and I stopped to watch.
Julia is the star of the movie, "The Omen", which is about the devil being born as a child and coming into the world as the human embodiment of evil. The movie has an interesting history, and is apparently following its' history proudly in the remake.
When the original film was made the elites in the entertainment industry and in New York had embraced a rabid antiChrist religion which they called "social activism" and used to excuse all sorts of violent terrorist acts, including a bombing of the Pentagon and several other government buildings in the early 1970s as well as numerous vicious murders and robberies. Today the religion is the same, but now they prefer to call themselves "progressives".
Their belief is that they are intellectually "progressive" while all non-believers are, of course, regressive and inferior (i.e. damned to hell by virtue of their ignorance and unbelief in the one intellectually superior faith.)
Julia started off talking about her film and how she thought it had a great message, a message which she says attacks Christianity. She discussed a scene in which the character of her husband accuses a priest of using "religious fundamentalism" to excuse murders (as Christians typically do according to Julia.) Julia was especially proud of this scene for it's attack on the priest, and symbolically the entire Christian Church. It was the scene she talked about more than any other even though she herself is apparently not in it.
She then proceeded to brag on and on about how she grew up in New York City a "progressive" who frequently and religiously involves herself in all sorts of fundamentalist revivals and crusades for "social justice" and the evangelism of the lost souls of non-progressives through movies and media events.
She was so proud of her mission work that it seemed to escape her notice that she is, in fact, a religious fundamentalist, a fanatic who assumes by faith that she is right.
I've seen several interviews with Julia, but this was the first one in which I have heard her go off on this religious tirade, beaming with obvious pride in her holiness and virtue even as she expressed strong feelings that the film, "The Omen", was important for it's subtle message (that Christianity is evil.)
I suppose it's entirely appropriate that her interview was aired on 06-06-06, just after midnight Eastern time. Julia says she doesn't believe in God or the devil or evil or "whatever you want to call it." She says she's not religious, but she feels her divine messages are somehow extraordinarily important and must be heard by the masses. She doesn't seem to comprehend what exactly religion is, or that she is herself highly religious and in fact evangelical about her faith. She is the perfect cult member, a believer who does not even know that she is a believer and who does not think to question her teachers.
Julia said she grew up attending New York City schools and that all her teachers helped to instill this faith in her by basically shoving it down the students throats every single day during the many years that she attended school.
And here we all thought the Supreme Court-created "separation of Church and State" made such blatant religious indoctrination in schools impossible and illegal. I guess we were wrong. Oops. There's a new state church in town.
I myself grew up in church, in various Southern Baptist churches mostly. I've gone to some very large, very corrupted churches and I've watched all sorts of games and tricks being played on the believers, the followers, the elect, or whatever you choose to call yourself when you are a member. I've seen this so many times before and I'm pretty sure that I know what I'm looking at.
Julia, bless her heart, appears to be clueless. Other than that, she seems likable enough, even if not particularly charismatic. She's really perfect for the role they've cast her in.
I always find it extremely ironic whenever the religious fundamentalist progressives do this, spreading their religious faith all over the TV or the movie screen, all the while denying that it is a religious faith and attacking others for having their own differing faiths. They seem to do it a lot. In fact, sometimes it seems as if it's all they ever do, aside from spreading hatred of Christians, white males, and the United States. They can be quite fanatical about it when they're not busy evangelizing the kids in the public schools and college classrooms. And they sure are intolerant.
I guess it's mostly the arrogance that annoys me. It's the "holier-than-thou" coupled with the "this-is-not-a-religion-because-religion-is-dumb" that catches my attention. And above all else it's the screaming hypocrisy. No matter which religion does it, even the ones that deny being a religion, it's always annoying. No matter what a person's beliefs are, if they're honest they have to admit that hypocrisy just rubs the wrong way. But that's the catch, isn't it, the "if they're honest" part?
Sister Julia "Che Guevara" Stiles
* You can comment on this if you like. Or you can skip it. Either way is fine. I don't have a grudge against Julia and I'm not feeling overly political or religious as I write this. But it's on my mind as I've just seen her interview on PBS. It sure as hell wasn't what I had intended to write, but "The Omen" does open today. So at least it's timely and vaguely topical.
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