Religious Ignorance

A couple of evangelicals came to my college a few weeks back. I decided to document the events and I ended up with enough footage to compose this short short documentary on what I saw. For the most part the evangelicals were preaching hell fire and brimstone to the students. This didn't sit well with the students for all the obvious reasons. The students were both hostile and belligerent in their attacks against the radicals.

In the documentary, I chose not to take sides when I edited it. What I did was to compose a piece that leaves the question of ignorance and who is the actual culprit up to the viewer. This is where YOUR belief comes into play. The questions that you must ask yourself if you're calling the evangelicals ignorant are as follows:

1. Why do I feel they are ignorant?

2. Is the message they are teaching wrong?

3. Is their approach wrong?

4. Whose religion are they considering?

5. Is this another bunch of bible thumping radicals that will serve beer in hell when Judgement Day gets here?

If you feel the students are wrong, the questions are:

1. Are they in denial

2. Did they have the right to yell at the evangelicals?

3. Is it because of their unwillingness to give up their sin that they are yelling back?

4. Are they justified in their response because they are in college?

5. Is this another gang of people that will be drinking beer in hell when Judgement Day comes?

Then there is the question of whether or not all parties involved are ignorant. That either way, at the end of the day, nothing was accomplished and this circus, though entertaining, was a big waste of time.

Religion is a very sticky subject, especially when one places it on a college campus. With the amount of sin and corruption that occurs, one is prone to be hostile when told to turn away from events that have defined the last few days, months, and years of that persons life. And there is the notion that "no one wants to be told that they are wrong," right? Either way, the choice of ignorance is yours, viewer. I invite you now back down the deep dark tunnels that give way to the light guiding our lives. Don't be afraid, take my hand. It might be dark for a while, but we'll find the light...one day...or forever wander the darkness, together. Good fright and all aboard The Train To Midnight.