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[olamina]

Endless Bummer

Remember how I raved about seeing Mike Daisey's Invincible Summer? Well, last week something pretty terrible happened at one of his performances...

From his website:
Last night's performance of INVINCIBLE SUMMER was disrupted when eighty seven members of a Christian group walked out of the show en masse, and chose to

Comments

[uberdionysus]

Wow. Just watched the video and read his responses. I love that he forgave the guy. Priceless.

[olamina]

It is totally priceless.
I also love that he got the guy to open up and fall to pieces in conversation. So many of these fundamentalists are horribly hollow.

[uberdionysus]

When I was in the Christian cult, most of them had come out of bad pasts, most dealing with addiction. I felt that a lot of them used Christianity as a new social addicition, and most seemed to have a poor understanding of Christ's message. I mean, it's pretty obvious that after fealty, tolerance is the biggest theme he harps on.

[olamina]

Yeah I had a fairly good upbringing an even I have hd a hard time resisting the allure of various cultish groups. I am constantly saying that I am not qualified to run my own life, but I continue to run it because the people who are willing/wanting to run it are never up to any good.

[uberdionysus]

Eh. I was never really interested in them. I just wanted to know if their was anything in religion that spoke to me, ya know? I thought I might as well go all the way. I was dabbling in non-Western religions, but I wanted to read The Bible and get to know my roots. They really pushed studying the New Testament, but I never completely agreed on their opinions.

As you know, they kicked me out when they realized I was an atheist.

[olamina]

I never read the story.
It was before my time. I'll have to dig in the archives for it when I have a bit more time.

[uberdionysus]

It happened when I was 19 or 20 or something like that.