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Apr 2008
I couldn’t have said it better
Posted in cults, pop culture, quackery, skepticism, society by Ella at 8:02 pm | Email This Post Email This Post

I may still write a piece on ‘Expelled’, the Ben Stein movie that has everyone talking… about what a steaming pile of crap ‘Expelled’, the Ben Stein movie, is. I want to discuss both it and ‘The Profit’, the movie Scientology managed to get, in America no less, in essence banned from release. Yes, my friends, here in America the release of a film which is is not pornographic or overly violent (it’s very much like your average Lifetime weekend movie) was stopped by a judge because the cult of Scientology said it was maligning their messiah, L. Ron Hubbard. In America. You read that right.

But I digress.

In the meantime I want to point you to a glorious blog post at Blue Collar Scientist which covers critics’ reactions to the… do I have to call it a documentary? OK, fine, the ‘documentary’.

http://bluecollarscientist.com/2008/04/18/some-expelled-reviews/

UPDATE 4/28: A fair and balanced review from a Christian film reviewer has come to my attention. It’s quite a pleasant break from all the (not unexpected) ideological/dogmatic responses we’ve seen so far. http://filmchatblog.blogspot.com/2008/04/expelled-reviews-up.html. Our friend Blue Collar Scientist shows up there, as well, in the comments, ironically.


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Blue Collar Scientist » Blog Archive » Comment and Link of the Week said:
April 25th, 2008 at 11:43 pm

[...] It comes from Gwangi Valley - Lost Blog of the Gwangi, and it isn’t so much because of the link to my Expelled reviews post, which was pretty straightforward: In the meantime I want to point you to a glorious blog post at Blue Collar Scientist which covers [...]