Tangled In Lies

Have you ever been on Tangle?  It's like the YouTube, but is sucks hard for a myriad of reasons, mainly because it advocates Christianity.  Basically, the site posts these videos that are supposed to foster discussion amongst Christians in regards to their faith (or level of faith "are you in love with Jesus?  Are you really in love with Jesus...a lot?").

The videos are terrible.  I can't decide what entertains me more, the videos that are basically a glorified Power Point presentation to the tune of some God-awful (pun indented) Christian rock band (yes, just text on a screen with some holy-roller with a guitar wailing on about the Bible) or the random Norman Rockwell-esque "slice of life" videos of kids being silly little kids (those darn little rascals!) and people doing stunts that should only solicit a modicum of "Wow!."

I actually subscribed for email updates...just for my own personal entertainment.  It's great.  My favorite thing to do is forward the really ridiculous videos to my friends of the reasonable/rational/logical persuasion and ruin their day.  It's easy to do.  They now have to go on through the rest of their day thinking about how some religious zealot took the time out of his or her day (which could have been spent working, being productive and/or not worrying about "saving" the rest of us and trying to better society through science/technology/philosophy/ethics) and produced a half-assed attempt to try to sway us reasonable folk to accept their superstition for fear of eternal damnation.

I still don't understand how this site is a persuasive.  Again, the videos are amateur at best; the nerdy AV kid that set up the VCR in your high school science class could have done better.  Then again, I guess it's more of a God-fearing people's meet-and-greet, twenty-first century style.  And that's the part that scares me.  When people of faith - and especially the ones that feel they need connection beyond their local church on Sundays - when people of this much faith organize like this, it just makes me think that their up to something that is not within my best interests, or in the best interests of our country as a secular sovereign nation (we are not a Christian nation...that's what I've come to understand as it was not indoctrinated in our Constitution...and that's what our current President understands, thankfully).

Think about it: what if Tangle was an video advocacy site for the Muslim faith?  That shit would be all over the news.  And people (probably Christians first) would be calling for blood.  The site wouldn't last a week because all their advertisers would have most likely pulled any ad (revenue for and website) for fear of guilt by association.  Why should it be any different, regardless of what religion Tangle advocates?

Enough ranting...check out the site, it's great for a laugh, but if you're like me, it's a little scary too.

http://www.tangle.com/