Greetings Patriots!
It has come to our attention that one General J.C. Christian has written of our film. While acknowledging that it is, at least for now, still a free country, we here at Red State - The Movie do not like to find ourselves linked with radical Christianists such as he.
But as good neighbors we are compelled to wish you a hearty welcome. Please enjoy your visit but try not to leave the place a mess.
September 21st, 2006 at 4:02 pm
Your comment may be tongue-in-cheek — I can never tell these things anymore — but, just in case you’re being serious, you ARE aware that the General’s site is satire, right?
September 21st, 2006 at 8:31 pm
Yes, Chris. I was trying to respond in kind. Admittedly I am no satirical match for the good General. I greatly appreciate the General’s review .
Thanks for looking out for me.
September 22nd, 2006 at 10:16 am
Maybe it’s just me, but I was amused that this was posted under “General”.
September 22nd, 2006 at 10:46 am
Generally speaking, all of my posts are under general……..
September 22nd, 2006 at 4:23 pm
Sorry about the confusion, Michael — the General is the king of all things satirical, and he would no doubt accuse me of being a Frenchman for saying so.
December 8th, 2006 at 8:21 pm
Speaking of General J.C. Christian…It’s interesting to note that the very first churches to position the federal US flag next to the speaker’s podium and/or to incorporate it into their services were all in the Deep North.
Same goes with portraits of the U.S. military dictators Lincoln and Grant. Why do so many people assume today that U.S. religious fundamentalism began in the South? It began with New England Puritans. They were, after all, the first folks in N. America to literally burn people alive.
December 9th, 2006 at 5:09 am
The identification of God with America and the United States with infallible righteousness is New England stuff through and through. It is exactly the type of “religion” that was used to deify Lincoln and the military dictatorship that followed. In New England history it is the stage they went through between the hyper-Calvinism of their early days and their present atheism. It did not arrive in the rest of America until the early 20th century when various evangelists began imitating the style and content of Billy Sunday. (See “The Real Old Time Religion” by the late theologian A.J. Conyers in Vol. 23, No. 3, of Southern Partisan.)