Zombies, politics and christianity
I went to the cinema, today, to see the marvellous George Romero's new film, "Land Of The Dead". I can highly recommend it to everyone - what modern horror films should be about, with paranoia, politics and bloodthirsty zombies ripping people's faces off and eating them. I may get around to writing a full-length review at some point soon. Although I may not.
Nonetheless, before the film started, there was an advert. A montage of images of people struggling to climb mountains, play football, and walk along catwalks, before reaching a sucessful conclusion, and asking the camera, "Is this all there is?"
Well, obviously it's not all there is. The footballers could take up mountaineering, the climbers could become models, the models could sign for Hearts. Or they could all read a book, masturbate over internet pornography or mainline heroin. There are a myriad of things to do, most of them better than my suggestions above.
The point being that the advert was for "The Alpha Course", a slightly sinister organisation who run what is basically a fundamentalist Christian brainwashing group. So why aren't they obliged to say that on their advertising literature? They pretend to be offering a course in philosophy, when that is the last thing they want - heaven forfend that any Alpha Course attendees should actually think. And there's no point in arguing with these people, as logic, evidence and rationality don't come into the equation - "It says so in the bible, so it must be true".
The sort of "thought process" which leads people to plant bombs on buses...
Nonetheless, before the film started, there was an advert. A montage of images of people struggling to climb mountains, play football, and walk along catwalks, before reaching a sucessful conclusion, and asking the camera, "Is this all there is?"
Well, obviously it's not all there is. The footballers could take up mountaineering, the climbers could become models, the models could sign for Hearts. Or they could all read a book, masturbate over internet pornography or mainline heroin. There are a myriad of things to do, most of them better than my suggestions above.
The point being that the advert was for "The Alpha Course", a slightly sinister organisation who run what is basically a fundamentalist Christian brainwashing group. So why aren't they obliged to say that on their advertising literature? They pretend to be offering a course in philosophy, when that is the last thing they want - heaven forfend that any Alpha Course attendees should actually think. And there's no point in arguing with these people, as logic, evidence and rationality don't come into the equation - "It says so in the bible, so it must be true".
The sort of "thought process" which leads people to plant bombs on buses...
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