On 31 Dec 2005 08:38:27 -0800,

Narnia Film to Rise Above King Kong?
It just hit me last night: The Fool isn't just lying about King Kong:
he's *libelling* the film, with the sole intent of hurting its
business.

Under the law, a film can't be libeled. Only a person can.

The time has come for us to realize that, almost by definition,
fundamentalist Christians are amoral. They answer to a "higher
authority" -- which overrules the earthbound ones, like etiquette,
ethics or THE LAW. There's a direct connection from the Fool lying
about "King Kong" to promote the pseudo-Christian "Narnia" to
Republican tactics in political campaigns.

You need a hobby. r a girlfriend. r *any* friend.

You need to develop some depth, because this isn't about just some
idiot lying about some movie. It's easy to generalize from the Fool to
what's happening in the U. S. today.

The time has come for us to realize that, almost by definition,
fundamentalist Christians are amoral. They answer to a "higher
authority" -- which overrules the earthbound ones, like etiquette,
ethics or THE LAW. There's a direct connection from the Fool lying
about "King Kong" to promote the pseudo-Christian "Narnia" to
Republican tactics in political campaigns.

As we saw in the last two presidential campaigns, Democrats -- that is,
people whose identities aren't fixed around God -- deal with facts.
They talk about WMDs, about torture, about the Kyoto agreement. They
criticize their opponent based on their political positions.

Republicans, on the other hand, have an agenda, and that is to bring
God and morality and good old time religion to America. Which means
they have to position themselves as God-fearing Christians, with their
opponents the direct opposite. They hire private investigators to dig
up dirt, but since they're not always running against draft-dodging
homosexuals, they've got to grasp at straws. And so they intentionally
mislead people (i.e., the ACLU and NAMBLA, or all those urban legends
about teachers paddling kids who *mention* God). They pose in front of
the flag slandering their opponents' morals, with even members of their
party becoming philanderers, communists, and liars. And, they just
plain make up stuff: when Bush ran against John McCain, for instance,
Karl Rove started rumors that McCain's wife was a crack-addicted *****,
and that McCain had fathered a half-black child.

It's a sad, ironic state of affairs when the "religious" faction is
dishonest, the so-called "moral" candidate making up lies to win.
(And, frankly, this is why John McCain is a has-been, if not a laughing
stock: he took a load of horseshit from George W. Bush, and after Bush
won he ran straight around to kiss Bush's *****.)

So, my point: We need to realize that the end justifies ANY means for
fundamentalist Christians. We need to get them out of our lives and
out of our government, because they'll sink to any depths necessary to
get what they want, whether that's lying about "Kong" to promote
"Narnia" or lying about WMDs and bankrupting America to bring "God" to
Iraq.