IMAX censoring itself thanks to rabid Fundies?
Okay, go read this article at the New York Times.
Heck, here’s the first paragraph, just to get you started:
Several Imax theaters, including some in science museums, are refusing to show movies that mention the subject - or the Big Bang or the geology of the earth - fearing protests from people who object to films that contradict biblical descriptions of the origin of Earth and its creatures.
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… WHAT?!
Okay… nevermind that most IMAX theaters are in museums, which are generally bastions of science and rationality, and why would the fundies want to go there anyway?
Why.. why… nevermind. There’s no logic to these people. There’s no arguing with them, no figuring them out. All we can do is shake our heads and step away slowly..
People who follow trends at commercial and institutional Imax theaters say that in recent years, religious controversy has adversely affected the distribution of a number of films, including “Cosmic Voyage,” which depicts the universe in dimensions running from the scale of subatomic particles to clusters of galaxies; “Galápagos,” about the islands where Darwin theorized about evolution; and “Volcanoes of the Deep Sea,” an underwater epic about the bizarre creatures that flourish in the hot, sulfurous emanations from vents in the ocean floor.
… whu… ?
I just… I… It’s too early for me to deal with this shit right now.
March 28th, 2005 at 1:44 pm
Hell, I just spent the day before yesterday dodging “Bible Tours” crowds at the British Museum. They were easy to identify because, aside form having little id cards with very large print that read BIBLE TOURS on them, they were carrying Bibles and their leaders were quoting them. Loudly. All through the lovely Ancient Near Esat section. But those artifcat were so beautiful, even the fundies couldn’t ruin it for me. Mesopotamia R00lz!!!!!!
Monster