Two posts in one day? There's a man with too much time on his hands...

Not quite on the same level as the previous post but along similar lines in the fact that people who don't know what they're talking about really should shut the hell up.

Briefly, Neil Gaiman's book Coraline is now also a stop motion animated movie - and very cool. Gaiman's post from yesterday linked to this review of the movie in which upright Christians choose to take a standpoint on whether or not it's suitable for your children - or indeed you.

I HAD TO LOOK! It's car crash internet posting at its very best. I'm sure it starts out with good intentions but having re-read it, it might simply be a set-up for the thumb in the eye. Happily, even better than the review are the comments from Christians who feel compelled to join in the discussion and tell other Christians what to do:

I walked out of this movie with a deep sense of heaviness and sadness, especially as I watched many, many adults with young children as young as 3 years old, leave the theater. The movie made a mockery of all we, as Christians, hold true and beautiful. I gasped, along with the little children watching this film, as a very robust, older lady was shown with nothing but sequines covering her giant breasts, along with a g-string at her waist. Up to that point, the movie had a magical, childlike sense of wonder in it. It almost seemed like it was made to capture the attention of a child's mind and then fill it with disgusting images and attitiudes.

I won't correct any spelling for this pure soul, it's more fun to leave it as it is. I especially like this one for its complete lack of a larger world view. I did leave a constructive response post on the site, but they have kindly taken it down - very fast, even though it cross referenced nice passages in the good book where things like the head of John the Baptist is delivered on a plate...

...or maybe it was the line, "you're all a bunch of fucking idiots" that got it pulled. Some people have no sense of humour.