What would Jesus Buy?
November 27th, 2007 by Erich ViethYou’ll find the trailer to this new Morgan Spurlock documentary here. Here’s the promo:
From producer Morgan Spurlock (SUPER SIZE ME) and director Rob VanAlkemade comes a serious docu-comedy about the commercialization of Christmas. Bill Talen (aka Reverend Billy) was a lost idealist who hitchhiked to New York City only to find that Times Square was becoming a mall. Spurred on by the loss of his neighborhood and inspired by the sidewalk preachers around him, Bill bought a collar to match his white caterer’s jacket, bleached his hair and became the Reverend Billy of the Church of Stop Shopping. Since 1999, Reverend Billy has gone from being a lone preacher with a portable pulpit preaching on subways, to the leader of a congregation and a movement whose numbers are well into the thousands.
November 28th, 2007 at 8:21 am
Can’t wait for this one. As you can imagine I am a big Spurlock fan!
Whenever I see those poor souls on black Friday bursting through the doors of the shopping mall and trampling each other to be the first to buy the latest “must-have” I am reminded of the second of the four noble truths of Buddhism:
2. The origin of suffering is attachment.
“Things”, man. “Things” won’t do it for you. I have discovered that the less “things” I have the happier I am.