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Sep. 13th, 2009 11:26 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
rivendellroseApparently 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
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
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Date: 2009-09-14 05:27 pm (UTC)The inability of some people to separate fact and fiction sometimes astounds and depresses me.
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Date: 2009-09-15 09:13 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-09-28 01:10 am (UTC)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.