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defrogITEM: Possibly the creepiest thing I’ll see today: Purity Boot Camp.
It’s a 16-week military-themed Christian program to help men stop looking at Internet porn. They dress up in camoflage (so that Temptation can’t see you, I think) and at the end: "Confess your sins, then go over to the foot of the cross and plant your white flag of surrender on purity hill”.
Seriously.
God knows what they actually do to the participants to get them to stop looking at porn. Maybe they get R. Lee Ermey to scream at them. “HOLY JESUS, WHAT IS THAT? DID YOU A COPY OF PLAYBOY INTO MY BELOVED CORPS?!”
Or maybe they take a page from John Hagee's Encounter Weekends.
Anyway, the organizers claim a 92% success rate.
The other 8% presumably now watch stuff like this:
Result!
Generally, this kind of thing doesn’t worry me too much, as long as it’s voluntary and doesn’t infringe on the rights of the rest of us to watch as much porn as we can stand without blowing a fuse. If you really want to wallow in guilt over having sexual thoughts like a normal human being, go right ahead. I’ll be over here enjoying some threesome porn, thanks.
That said, I find the military theme a little disturbing. When hardcore religious people start donning military uniforms, I get nervous.
It’s also highly ironic, given the porn collections of many of the guys in my various platoons when I was in the military. Also, if the point of a military-themed purity boot camp is to “surrender”, doesn’t that send mixed messages? I realize the point is that yr surrendering to Jesus (a mixed message in itself), but would it kill them to frame it in terms of victory? You know, something like: “If porn is terrorism, you just defeated al Qaeda, son!”
But then that isn’t really the point, is it?
BONUS TRACK: An official video from the National Purity Coalition.
Jesus is watching you masturbate,
This is dF
It’s a 16-week military-themed Christian program to help men stop looking at Internet porn. They dress up in camoflage (so that Temptation can’t see you, I think) and at the end: "Confess your sins, then go over to the foot of the cross and plant your white flag of surrender on purity hill”.
Seriously.
God knows what they actually do to the participants to get them to stop looking at porn. Maybe they get R. Lee Ermey to scream at them. “HOLY JESUS, WHAT IS THAT? DID YOU A COPY OF PLAYBOY INTO MY BELOVED CORPS?!”
Or maybe they take a page from John Hagee's Encounter Weekends.
Anyway, the organizers claim a 92% success rate.
The other 8% presumably now watch stuff like this:
Result!
Generally, this kind of thing doesn’t worry me too much, as long as it’s voluntary and doesn’t infringe on the rights of the rest of us to watch as much porn as we can stand without blowing a fuse. If you really want to wallow in guilt over having sexual thoughts like a normal human being, go right ahead. I’ll be over here enjoying some threesome porn, thanks.
That said, I find the military theme a little disturbing. When hardcore religious people start donning military uniforms, I get nervous.
It’s also highly ironic, given the porn collections of many of the guys in my various platoons when I was in the military. Also, if the point of a military-themed purity boot camp is to “surrender”, doesn’t that send mixed messages? I realize the point is that yr surrendering to Jesus (a mixed message in itself), but would it kill them to frame it in terms of victory? You know, something like: “If porn is terrorism, you just defeated al Qaeda, son!”
But then that isn’t really the point, is it?
BONUS TRACK: An official video from the National Purity Coalition.
Jesus is watching you masturbate,
This is dF
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on 2009-03-28 05:39 am (UTC)Phooey.