{"id":323,"date":"2008-05-27T22:44:00","date_gmt":"2008-05-27T22:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gaisan.com\/wordp\/?p=323"},"modified":"2009-12-19T23:21:56","modified_gmt":"2009-12-19T23:21:56","slug":"channel-4-docus-about-jesus-freaks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/gaisan.com\/blogs\/?p=323","title":{"rendered":"Channel 4 docus about jesus freaks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m really hopeful Channel 4 will stop showing programmes about Christian fundamentalists in the US. There are so many of them, they&#8217;re so friggin nuts and they&#8217;re making me depressed. I&#8217;m hopeful this crazy ass thinking will be slightly less popular when George Jihad Bush leaves the White House. Hopefully a democrat will end up there. I&#8217;d prefer Obama but that may not happen as there&#8217;s at least one state that can&#8217;t get over the &#8220;Hussein&#8221; in his name as John Stewart illustrated to hilarious and poignant effect.<br \/>\nA recent show called <em>Jesus Camp<\/em> showed kids being told by a grown if completely insane woman that <em>&#8220;Warlocks are evil&#8221;<\/em> and that <em>&#8220;in the old testament Harry Potter would have been put to death&#8221;<\/em>. The tears started to flow as the kids realised that Harry Potter was incompatible with life as a god-fearing, war-mongering, zealot nutjob their mammy and daddy want them to be.  Happy kids? Not likely, they spent the time they weren&#8217;t being indoctrinated being terrified with the thoughts of final judgement. Still, they were told god was attending the camp so there was a point to all this. The organiser seemed breathlessly unstable. Imagine the kind of sick parents who send their kids to these camps. Disturbing stuff.<br \/>\nOn a lighter note, can anybody figure out where <b>LOST<\/b> is actually going?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m really hopeful Channel 4 will stop showing programmes about Christian fundamentalists in the US. There are so many of them, they&#8217;re so friggin nuts and they&#8217;re making me depressed. I&#8217;m hopeful this crazy ass thinking will be slightly less popular when George Jihad Bush leaves the White House. Hopefully a democrat will end up [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[44],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/gaisan.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/gaisan.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/gaisan.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gaisan.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gaisan.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=323"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/gaisan.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":448,"href":"http:\/\/gaisan.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323\/revisions\/448"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/gaisan.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=323"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gaisan.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=323"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gaisan.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=323"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}