In another post in GQ someone had a link to a Baptist web site ( http://www.landoverbaptist.org ). It’s been awhile since I perused a place so jaw-droppingly bigoted (at least in my opinion). On that site was a link to a review of the movie Gladiator so I thought I’d check that out ( http://www.bettybowers.com/gladiator.html ).
I don’t know whether to laugh or be scared. Try the following quote from Betty’s review (I think this counts as fair use and is not copyright infringement):
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History has been filled with Christian persecution. Sure, Christians have returned in kind. And, thanks to the Catholic Inquisition, done so with élan and a flare for the diabolically painful that makes the Romans, frankly, appear somewhat amateurish. But our persecution was done for God, and therefore we tortured with love.**
Up till that point I thought the review was funny. Things such as her opinion that the title Gladiator is “salacious wordplay” meant to imply “Glad-He-Ate-Her”. Does she really believe that the word ‘gladiator’ was coined however long ago as a crude word play?
However, her view described in the quote above stopped me cold. I had to re-read it several times. In case you think the quote is somehow out-of-context please go to the site and read the review yourself. If anything that quote seems even more sinister when read with the rest of the review.
Since this board is random musings I’m not sure I have a point or a question. I guess I just had to get this off my chest although I am curious if anyone else finds this as shocking and/or as surprising as I do?
In another post in GQ someone had a link to a Baptist web site ( http://www.landoverbaptist.org ). It’s been awhile since I perused a place so jaw-droppingly bigoted (at least in my opinion). On that site was a link to a review of the movie Gladiator so I thought I’d check that out ( http://www.bettybowers.com/gladiator.html ).
I don’t know whether to laugh or be scared. Try the following quote from Betty’s review (I think this counts as fair use and is not copyright infringement):
Up till that point I thought the review was funny. Things such as her opinion that the title Gladiator is “salacious wordplay” meant to imply “Glad-He-Ate-Her”. Does she really believe that the word ‘gladiator’ was coined however long ago as a crude word play?
However, her view described in the quote above stopped me cold. I had to re-read it several times. In case you think the quote is somehow out-of-context please go to the site and read the review yourself. If anything that quote seems even more sinister when read with the rest of the review.
Since this board is random musings I’m not sure I have a point or a question. I guess I just had to get this off my chest although I am curious if anyone else finds this as shocking and/or as surprising as I do?
You do know Landover Baptists are a parody site, right?
Granted, it’s hard to tell the difference between that and many of the more paranoid ravings of the Religious Right - except for perhaps a greater concentration of bitter irony.
The whole review seems tongue in cheek to me. As does the rest of the site; one section is called “Bringing Integrity To Christian Homemakers”, or BITCH.
The Betty Bowers site is hilarious but don’t believe for a second that real Baptists can’t be as jaw-droppingly bigoted. I say that from my experience as having been (past tense) one. I remain a Christian but I have have no tolerance for intolerance. …is that a paradox?
