Heck House

[womzilla]

quility describes a very odd and upsetting documentary:

It's about this Assembly of God church in Texas that creates an alternative to the haunted house each October. They show skits of modern life horrors and how you have to turn your life over to Jesus to be saved - eternally and from these modern horrors. They change the skits from year to year but the year the documentary was made the horrors included abortion, AIDS, being homosexual, suicide, participating in the occult, drunk driving, drug deals gone wrong, date rape drugs, raves, family violence, and perhaps a few I'm missing.

and then comes away with a response which is just, well, wonderfully her:

Now I want to do a [Unitarian Universalist] Hell House. . . . So I really have to break it down to try to figure out what a UU Hell House would look like - a place that shows skits that try to encourage ppl to question world views that they have accepted . . . something that shows the perils of using scare tactics, something that shows the dangers of having a black and white world view, something that shows the dangers of not trying to understand ppl who are different from you.

And, of course, the moral hazards of running out of coffee. Yay UUHH!

Comments

[shelly-rae.livejournal.com]

Or how about violent stories from the Bible? Fathers killing daughters and sons. Rape, murder, ritual sacrifice, cannibalism that sort of thing. And then illustrate all the things Christians have done "in the name of God," the Inquisition, Crusades, slavery, and lynchings of blacks just to name a few. Now that's scary stuff!
Anon,

[quility.livejournal.com]

Moral hazards of running out of coffee!! *LAUGH*
You _have_ visited a Unitarian Universalist society I see!

I'm so glad you liked my post. and thanks for the reminder. I really do want to try to write some skits - just to try to formulate what my idea of a "scared straight" skit would be.