Battle Cry!!!

This morning got off to a great start. A spot of Match of the Day before watching the brilliant Sunday AM. Then I did something silly. I pressed 'tv guide' followed by '0' for 'other options' and then pressed '3' for 'religion'.

On these channels you can witness lots of black Americans shouting at each other from pulpits. A perfect demonstration that religion really is for the oppressed. Every white man in America must chuckle to themselves when they see these things, we can screw them over for generations - and how do they cope with it? They channel their anger and frustrations into our own European based methods of control! - giggle.

But then something far more worrying appears. There is a lot about 'Battle Cry', which from what I have read before is some sort of cult that is taking the public preaching of the gospel, a long established tradition of the south, into the 21st centry. Hordes of teenagers attend these rallies to pledge their alliegence to the organisation's handsome televangical frontman, Ron Luce. All a bit weird pehaps.

But then I am once again introduced to something even more unsettling - Christian rock. I know, this is a well established genre in the American south. But I like to think that it is still a highly bizarre concept to us Europeans. Rock is surely the ultimate cultural manifestation of anti-authoritarianism, its about . . .

You know what. I can't be bothered.

It's absurd.

"Hey, my name's Megan. I was teased in high school for being fat and I had no friends. But then I found Battle Cry, they preyed on my weaknesses and I have now found happiness through adopting their fascist lie, I love you Jesus, Prince of Peace! Thank you so much Battle Cry!"

The most enlightened and wealthy generation in history and you do THAT?

You sick. .


Arghh!

Death to you all for ruining my Sunday morning.