What would Jesus Buy?

You’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.

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Erich Vieth

Erich Vieth is an attorney focusing on civil rights (including First Amendment), consumer law litigation and appellate practice. At this website often writes about censorship, corporate news media corruption and cognitive science. He is also a working musician, artist and a writer, having founded Dangerous Intersection in 2006. Erich lives in St. Louis, Missouri with his two daughters.

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    gatomjp

    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.

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