Louis Theroux: Fundamentalist Christianity
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Louis Theroux's Weird Weekends is a television documentary series, in which Louis Theroux gives viewers the chance to get brief glimpses into the worlds of individuals and groups that they would not normally come into contact with or experience up close.
In most cases this means interviewing people with extreme beliefs of some kind, or just generally belonging to subcultures not known to exist by most or just frowned upon. It was first shown in the UK on BBC2.
In first episode of Theroux's Weird Weekends, in Dallas, Louis meets TV evangelists Marcus and Joni Lamb, and joins a group of hardline Christians called "The Family" as they visit the Deep Ellum entertainment district. (Excerpt from Wikipedia.org)
if i were looking to be convinced for any particular belief, lost hopelessly within the dungeons of insecurity,i would take up saundra g`s religion. lets love more and segregate less.
Brilliant! <3
The WBC are not Evangelicals, they are old-world Calvinists. They are not Evangelical because they have no intentions to evangelize.
Louis is such a prat, taking the piss like that! By far my favourite documentarist,I don't think many people can look as childishly innocent while asking the most preposterous questions, especially when it comes to those delusional born-agains!
I like your Christ, I don't like your Christians / Gandhi
The "Lamb's" are some of the most phony people I've ever seen!
These people are so full of ****! Angels on your body!! LMAO!
That man from the TV show reminds me of Ned Flanders from the Simpsons, he's got the mustache and the voice as well as the evangelicalism.
Faith, It starts out intimate and warm, then you pray and with a more positive attitude with this knowledge that Jesus is right next to you. It's all fine when everything seems to be going your way then bam! You hit a snag.
Then you start hearing for the first time the utter hatred coming from seemingly kind people who were one moment praising the Prince of Peace and the next moment are saying the most horrible things about people. Then you give them excuses like they are entitled to their opinions and you could almost overlook the wrong they were saying.
Then after being alienated because you actually read the Bible and find out that so many stories in it are conflicting. Especially when it comes to Jesus words and what the church is putting forth as doctrine, you start reading Jesus teachings to your children in a home Bible study. Then you read that the God of Love has ordered his people to do horrible acts, the very things the church condemns people for. Then you realize that the Jesus and the God that the church is worshiping are not even the same warm and kind and compassionate one that saved you. Then you wonder what is going on, ask God for wisdom and you realize that once you get wisdom that the church is filled with intellectually challenged, hurting people who have bought into self inflicted misery and are strangely happy about it. Two words come to mind; Hypocrisy, and ignorance. Strange and funny that the very people who used to invite you to a new neighborhood with a homemade apple pie are now the ones peering out from the curtains with suspicion filling their eyes.
I like how the reporter keeps it respectful, despite his clear feeling that these people are somewhat deluded. Strangely refreshing.
These people are wannabes, who find themselves indulging in emotional highs, and make a mockery out of true Christianity.
''its not a brain thing''
haha
America: WTF!?
Sincerly: The world...
i am starting to think mankind is just inherently insane ... everyone believes something! lol
Marcus and Joni Lamb make me sick! Nauseating1 This is a pretty solid documentary if I can stand to watch those two.
Big Money in being saved.
boen again christians seem harmless in comparison to the westboro baptist church, I just watched both of Louis doc's on the subject, and Im thoroughly appalled by the behaviour of those westboro folks
"With sin on my mind" ... I have to say Louis' subversive if not clandestine condescending method of approaching a story is always refreshing & entertaining.
Well, they are friendly people. Delusional, of course, but friendly.
"At least I could still smoke pot and go to gay bars"- Greatest comment ever.
oh old school Louis is hilarious
@ Charly
From 325 AD, at the Council of Nicene, whence Emperor Constantine decreed his Holy Roman and Apostolic Catholic Church be both the embodiment of all Christendom as well as supreme and absolute sovereign of the Holy Roman Empire's first and only ever 'State Religion', right up to October 31, 1517, when Martin Luther nailed his "Ninety-Five Theses" to a church door, if you were Christian, you were Catholic!
A theocratic dictatorship if ever there was.
Charly, if you ascribe(as it would seem) to the laughable notion that fascist 'Pax Romana' social structure is the unique base upon which 'progress' might flourish("...If the Catholic Church had not been around, you would not have had any progress that you enjoy today..."[25]), then you, Sir, are just that: fascist.
ah - the rapture.
when christ takes his believers away to the mothership and leaves the rest of the world alone. i only ask that he takes all believers. he can leave the shinto and wiccans i guess, but the rest are fair game!
I love you Louis; hurry and make some more of these great documentaries. No one compares to you!
I actually find these humorous portrails of religes (in this case, christians) to be very disturbing.
I honestly cant belive that in this technological age people still cling to these ancient & outdated beliefs.
Are so many people (particularly in america) really that snowed?
Are people really so content to just swallow anything theyre told without any type of real tangible evidence or rational judgment?
Mabye people are just content to belive fictional tales instead of thinking coherently (or mabye at all?)
Or mabye theyre just happy to delude themselves because they havent really been given a decent, subjective education.
Mabye having false hopes about magical fairylands appeals to people who have undergone some kind of traumatic event in their life.
Or it might be the simple fact theyve been that indoctrinated since birth theyre incapible of change.
Louis is a bit bland but i like where he goes with his themes & you do get a giggle from time to time.
Oh and the brunette in "the family" all i can say... always makes me sad when i see such potential spoilt, what a waste :(
I could stomach Louis' arrogance and belittling attitude throughout the majority of the documentary, but I have completely lost all respect for him after he completely ridiculed the foundation of Christianity by pretending to pray the prayer of salvation and made hell seem like a fun place to go. Not impressed at all.