Kirk Cameron’s latest Lie “Saving Christmas
Kirk Cameron’s “Saving Christmas” is a cynical ploy masquerading as a movie aimed squarely at the faith-based demographic. And it’s political. This is the opening shot in Fox’s fake “War on Christmas” pageant.
Cameron is an ideologue and right wing culture warrior. He’s partners with fellow far right fundamentalist trickster and “evangelist” Ray Comfort. Comfort is into tricks to lure the unwary into the kingdom of far right fundamentalist faith that I’ve seen before. I grew up as the son of fundamentalist missionaries. We too were trained to trick people into the Kingdom of God. We’d pretend to be interested in someone when all we wanted to do was propagandize them. But we never faked money.
Comfort did. He designed dozens of gospel tracts (little flyers selling Jesus) since the 1970s, and sells millions of so-called Living Waters tracts each year.Some of his tracts are designed to resemble paper money, including fake $100, $1000 and $1 million bills in order to sucker people into picking this Jesus litter up. Others employ novelties like a “ticket to heaven.”
In June 2006, agents of the US Secret Service confiscated thousands of Ray Comfort’s “Million Dollar Bill” gospel tracts from Darrel Rundus, president of Great News Network.
Bluntly these people are an embarrassment to all but far right evangelicals, and of course to Fox News. In October 2010, The New Zealand Herald reported that elderly people received “appointment cards” by Comfort’s California-based publishing company, Living Waters, asking them to fill out information regarding the date and time of their deaths, and advising them to contact evangelists in order to avoid hell. . In 2011, Comfort wrote and produced a 33-minute documentary film called 180: Changing the Heart of a Nation. The film was criticized by The Huffington Post for its comparison of abortion to the Holocaust.
Kirk Cameron’s latest Lie “Saving Christmas”
