Posted on 09/05/2004 12:04:00 PM PDT by sinkspur
HOLLYWOOD, Calif. – "I've got your homosexual lifestyle!" the demon cackles. "In hell! AHAHAHA!!!"
He laughs as the AIDS patient in the hospital bed is dragged from view by devilish hands.
High comedy? Some California entertainers think so. That's a scene from their new live show Hollywood Hellhouse! – a self-styled spoof of Christian fundamentalism.
But is the damnation line simple satire, or does it really reflect God's will? The answer depends on your theology.
The demon's line is taken directly from a "hell house," a Christian haunted house where ghosts and goblins are replaced by abortions and drug overdoses. The deliberately – and seriously – scary message the houses convey to children: Screw up in this life and you'll burn in the next. But Hollywood Hellhouse! plays the same theme for adult laughs.
(Excerpt) Read more at dallasnews.com ...
If God could speak through a donkey, this might get some liberals to wondering if they really are going to hell...some of those working there are all ready wondering according to article...stranger things have happened.
I'd say we're pretty much begging for pestilence.
More Christian bashing. We should protest this bigotry and religious discrimination. If it were a Muslim horror house, the liberals would be crying about how it promotes hatred against people of "other faiths."
I wonder who was doing it and why. Observant Jews will do that in certain circumstances to avoid desecrating words that are names for God--even in English and other non-Hebrew languages. For example, they'll avoid writing such words in full on anything that may get printed out, used once, and thrown away, like an online TV schedule. Maybe someone's written to the company about the issue, and the company responded this way.
Of course, they're not the only ones doing it, and I can imagine others having their opposite reasons.
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