I saw a fundie play last night [View All]

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The reason I went is that Dad was in it. He started his acting career in his 60s and has appeared at this particular theater a couple of times and made some minor name for himself in local theater.

It is called “Catacombs” and is a fundie fantasy of Christian persecution. The US is a totalitarian state, of course and in fact is run by the Anti-Christ (the over the costuming in the drama included Gestapo-types police whose hats bore the logo “666!”)

The Christians are hiding in the hills, many of them having lost close family members who were killed for being Christians.

The crisis in the plot comes when a leader is forced to watch his fellow Christians be killed, and in the case of the young girl, even raped, because he refuses to renounce Jesus Christ.

To me, this makes JC look bad. Would he really you rather did that then just denounced him to the Gestapo but didn’t really mean it, to save your fellow human some suffering?

It also unintentionally brought out the cultishness of fundie far right wing nutjob Christianity. Each character has a speech about death; all very morbid. A little girl died from eating bad food, and one survivor tried to comfort the mother with the thought that the little girl had escaped worse. Now where have I heard that before?

All of the Christians begged their leader to let them die or even be raped and then killed rather than that he just verbally denounce Jesus Christ. What was really over the top was that each was shuffled offstage and then you heard the gunshots. Since there were at least six characters to be disposed of this way, it got rather uncomfortable. And of course, the “hero” sat there and refused to denounce JC while watching all these people die (fortunately for the audience, they skipped the rape, though they had threatened it), until he was finally taken off himself and shot.

Why do the fundies love their delusions of persecution? They know it will never happen in America, and that if it did, they are the ones who would be doing the persecuting. Maybe it’s projection?