"The End is Near" mass unconsciousness

[Spectrum]

I was raised Christian, and then when I was about 10 or so, all these happy-clappy charismatic churches started appearing everywhere, and my mother took us to those. Then the Toronto blessing started becoming popular, with people falling over when touched by the pastor and speaking in tongues and all that nonsense. And then I noticed how much money was flowing, and I noticed the hypocrisy and the showmanship, and when I was 18 I said "I'm outa here!", and also never touched the bible again.

Recently someone showed me the movie Marjoe:

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0068924/

This documentary is really mind blowing. This is the kind of film that many people only dream about. It is so refreshing to see and hear a very articulate, smart, and brave man uncover some of the true evils in the world that, in his life, mostly exist in the religious sector. This is a man who has been put through all them and has lived to tell the tale and get his voice heard. It's a shame that not many people have seen or heard about this film, especially considering that it won the Academy Award for Best Documentary. This is the kind of film that you only wish more people would have seen or listened to. The documentary is about an ex-child evangelist preacher who in his spare time speaks to a documentary crew about his tortured childhood and his life afterwords and what tricks his parents used to promote him as a miracle. This man, Marjoe Gortner, was a victim and this film shows him standing up, not only for himself, but for all the people of the world who are forced to behave accordingly to please god and be a good Christian. It's quite intense to see this man expose all of this stuff to the public, and at the same time be so charismatic about it. But this is all just to get his point across a world that is asleep to these evils. It is amazing how powerful it is to just call someone a sinner just because of what they believe, but to call somebody a sinner just because they are trying to help people into bettering themselves, it just seems very wrong. This is a man who wants to be heard. He wants a better life, and this documentary exposes his true feelings to the public. The reason why these people do these things to children is obviously because they believe that they are the most manipulable and therefore would be the easiest to corrupt, but this film not only proves them wrong.

...and it all came rushing back to me and repulsed me all over again. Mass hynosis, big bucks and lies.

Wasn't really too wise to throw the baby out with the bathwater, but anyway.