Same Church Lady, Different Religion

If you thought Dana Carvey’s Church Lady died with the 90s she’s back – complete with a shrill intolerance past the point of being funny. Sean Penn contorts his muzzle to the side of his face and asks, “What made you support the definition of marriage being between a man and a woman? Was it…mmm, HATRED?!”

Great, now the blue-haired old lady has been replaced by a finger-wagging liberal industry star using the spotlight to shove religion down the next generation’s throat. There’s no self reflection, only the kind of self-righteous condemnation that comes from a rock solid adherence to a dogma. (more…)

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Posted Feb 23rd 2009 at 1:07 pm in Entertainment, Featured Story, Politics | 64602207 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/dtennapel/2009/02/23/the-liberal-church-lady/Same+Church+Lady%2C+Different+Religion2009-02-23+21%3A07%3A14Doug+TenNapel

Real Tolerance Training: Christian = ‘Intolerant’

I once had a meeting with an executive regarding one of my graphic novels that had been optioned. This exec started the writer’s meeting with a few notes to change some rough spots in the story. This is normal procedure with my work. I have no problem with making these changes, since it’s part of the game given where I’m at in my career. They pay me lots of money so I like these execs when I’m sentenced to work with them. I was taken aback by the first round of notes that went something like this, “For starters, we’re gonna get rid of all this Christian shit from the story, right?”

The exec informed me that religious imagery didn’t sell to American audiences, that it was intolerant and it definitely didn’t export. This was before ‘The Passion of the Christ’ so I can forgive his ignorance of the world’s most popular religion, but it was the word intolerant that struck me. How was the inclusion of religion not tolerant while the removal of it was?

This is my baptism into the myopic view of religion by most of my friends in Hollywood. For being multicultural, the lack of humility regarding a religion they didn’t know or understand is…is…well, these days it’s typical.

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Posted Jan 14th 2009 at 8:48 am in Media Criticism, Politics | 16881110 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/dtennapel/2009/01/14/real-tolerance-training/Real+Tolerance+Training%3A+Christian+%3D+%27Intolerant%272009-01-14+16%3A48%3A46Doug+TenNapel