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[rivendellrose]

Apparently a movie about Charles Darwin is 'too controversial' for American audiences.

Fuck this shit. Can I have a new country, now? Please?

And in case that by itself wasn't enough to make your blood boil, here's a quote from the article:

Movieguide.org, an influential site which reviews films from a Christian perspective, described Darwin as the father of eugenics and denounced him as "a racist, a bigot and an 1800s naturalist whose legacy is mass murder". His "half-baked theory" directly influenced Adolf Hitler and led to "atrocities, crimes against humanity, cloning and genetic engineering", the site stated.

What. The fuck.

That said, why is it that "special screenings" have been set up for Christian groups even in the UK? It's a fucking movie, you fucking morons. It's a fucking movie about a person, not a documentary about his scientific work. Even if his theories were in some way controversial (which, um, no - not to anyone with a functioning brain and a third of an education they're not), it's a fucking movie.

...I just went from "sleepy comfy Sunday" to "raging bitch oh-god-my-blood-pressure" in the space of five minutes. :P

Comments

[vega-ofthe-lyre.livejournal.com]

[rivendellrose.livejournal.com]

Heeeeeeeee. Oh, that makes me wish I had a Snape icon. ♥♥♥

[cordeliadelayne]

WHAT?

[rivendellrose.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I think that about covers it. :P

[babel.livejournal.com]

I think that these Christians should step back and think about how much they want to blame the source material for what crazy person misused it. Because the Bible would not come off well, let me tell you.

[rivendellrose.livejournal.com]

Exactly! For goodness sake.

[storydivagirl.livejournal.com]

dude.

1) it's a movie. So whether you except evolution or not...it's a MOVIE. Do these people think that Die Hard is real?

2) I will never understand people who can't accept evolution and God. I believe in God and I believe in science. It's just ridiculous.

[irishninja.livejournal.com]

I left the church I attended in high school because a similar form of stupidity surrounding the awesomely dinosaurific movie Jurassic Park made me realize I was weekly surrounding myself with people who wanted to be willfully ignorant. Nevermind the intolerance and bigotry also prevalent there.

The inability of some people to separate fact and fiction sometimes astounds and depresses me.

[rivendellrose.livejournal.com]

Seriously, Jurassic Park? WTF? That... that's just unbelievable to me. o_O

[storydivagirl.livejournal.com]

Was it because Jurassic Park states that man and dinosaur didn't live together?

Yeah, it's part of the reason I'm not really a practicing Catholic (or anything). Because while I believe in God, religion has some big issues.

[rivendellrose.livejournal.com]

That's exactly the thing. Religion and science only have to conflict when people are so single-minded that they can't possibly conceive of a way to think just the slightest bit outside the box, or are just so detail-obsessed that they have to have absolutely everything handed to them in one tiny little perfect package. That's not how life works. At all.

And yes, I suspect these idiots probably would take Die Hard seriously as a realistic portrayal of... er... something. Blegh.

[storydivagirl.livejournal.com]

Did you hear Kirk Cameron and some writer have re-written Darwin's book to "fix the inaccuracies?" Because I'm going to take Mike Seaver's scientific prowess for fact over Darwin.

The mind, it boggles.

[diea.livejournal.com]

only 39 per cent of Americans believe in the theory of evolution

Really???? Who are these people and why do I have to be lumped in with them???? This country just depresses me sometimes.

[rivendellrose.livejournal.com]

So, I've heard there was a bit of trouble with the way that survey was carried out, in terms of the way they defined "believing" in the theory of evolution. I don't recall where the study was or exactly what the issue was with it anymore, but there was something about the "believes in evolution" option being way too specific and rock-solid for most people. So, based on that, I suspect their number there is fairly high compared to reality, but... it's still an appalling thought.

[darthparadox.livejournal.com]

I was annoyed too, but then I read Scalzi's post on the matter. It contains some much-needed perspective on what's actually going on here...