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365 films challenge | #087: Pan’s Labyrinth (2006)

 “You’re getting older, and you’ll see that life isn’t like your fairy tales. The world is a cruel place. And you’ll learn that, even if it hurts. Magic does not exist. Not for you, me, or anyone else.” 

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Meet Evangelist Barefoot

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My mother and I were sitting at a restaurant for lunch, minding our merry business, when this lady comes up to our table.

“Well, praise the Lord, I’m Minister Barefoot. You know? ‘Barefoot’ just like Moses was barefoot before the burning burn on the holy ground!”

And she didn’t stop talking there:

“I go wherever the Lord sends me. The Lord used me to bring two men back to life! And I ain’t talking about nearly dead either. I mean, the dead dead kind. The Lord uses me mightily.”

“The Lord blessed me with two cars! The Lord told two women to give me two meek coats. God even put money in my hand! And God told someone to pay my mortgage, which was thousands of dollars. God is so fun!”

“I done been through hell and back! Oh, honey I know what it’s like to struggle!” *She taps my mother’s shoulder. She knows our struggle, apparently.* “My husband beat me, threatened me with guns, and tried to strangle me, but I am here by the grace of God!”

“I go to a church where most of the people are Black. My bishop is a BLACK MAN, and he ordained me! Ain’t God good? During one of his services, the Spirit was so high that I was just filled with the fire of God. I was about to burst! The Word was burning in my belly so. And look!”

*She opens her mouth and points at a gold cap on a back tooth:

“The Lord placed a gold in my mouth! No human dentist or doctor did it! It was God! God is so fun! All you have to do is believe! We don’t see signs and wonders any more because people don’t believe!”

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I don’t know where to begin with this one. There is so much wrong. And the thing is, she gives this “God” a bad reputation. Oh really, lady? God can put golds in your mouth, give you houses, cars and money, while billions of people starve and are poor and die horrendous deaths. But your God is “fun,” eh? 

I don’t hate Christianity, but it’s people like this who make me abhor such rampant anti-intellectualism and narrow-mindedness that I often see in religion. MY God can heal and deliver ME because I have the mental and spiritual capacity to believe. Those who suffer and die? Fuck ‘em. They didn’t believe hard enough. They didn’t want salvation bad enough. 

AND she has the God-given power to raise the dead? Oh really? Then, why won’t you make this “gift” well known? Work for a hospital. Go, and actively heal the sick and raise the dead at all times, instead of bragging about how you got houses and meek coats. 

I tire immensely of this selfishness. This “me-me-me” and “them-them-them” religion of non-progression and mental bondage. 

Believe what you will. But, don’t be self-centered about it, and don’t make your God love you more than others. That’s not the way of love.

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✞enter my wonderland ✞

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