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Your most cringe-worthy moment?

posted 10 years ago by john-tyrrell3
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For me it was definitely when the young Americans/Englishman were travelling around in the jeep and they stopped to buy some sort of skewered meat and talk to the kids.

That was beyond weird. When that dude was saying "you want eternal life? Well Jesus said I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the father except through me" - basically telling that black dude he's going to hell if he doesn't do what he says.
Or better was when the girl said "I am muslim" and that English guy with the specs said "oh you're a muslim....um..right...ok"

[–] DogZoo 10 years ago

Yes, that scene raised a lot of emotions in me - anger being the dominant one.

I felt so sorry for everyone. The natives and the ignorant americans. All I can say is that religion never seizes to amaze me and that's for all the negative reasons.

This missionary stuff is in my opinion one of the most immoral things one can do. Especially in a country where education is what it is.. It sickens me.

[–] daddie0 10 years ago

For me it was when Bishop Senyonjo proclaimed that David Kato was in Heaven because God loves him. It seemed to me that perhaps unwittingly, the Bishop slipped ever so gently into the role of he himself being a god.

[–] skopofiil 9 years ago

For me it was the way Jesse & Rachelle, the young married couple living in Uganda, tried to distance themselves from the anti-gay bill, saying they only know what the western media writes and how they didn't want to take a position on that. It just seemed so cowardly and pathetic, especially when compared with the incredible courage of men like Bishop Senyonjo and David Kato.

[–] Ras_lupo 9 years ago

Im not even religious but when when the woman said she was a Muslim i said aloud "DAMN STRAIGHT"

Another cringe worthy moment was when one of the IHOPpers said "Thank god for Starbucks!" in the little hut....That just solidified their arrogance stupidity and absent mindedness to me. smh

I really got pissed off to near the beginning of the film where the main guy for the IHOP was on TV supporting Prop 8 saying homosexuality was "..More demonic than Islam.." Like ...Jesus Christ..you are really that ridiculous???

Oh my god, unisex names killed my family.

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[–] Devans00 9 years ago

The most cringe worthy moments to me is whenever the missionaries tried to convert local Ugandan women. There was a younger one with a baby and an older one near the end of the film.

First, how much of the Christian babble was understood? If someone is holding your hand and making unintelligible noises, have much "good" are they actually doing?

Second, hearing about God and Jesus seemed to be the last thing either of those women needed. Maybe I'm looking at things through my patronizing American eyes but I'm guess the women had higher priorities in life than being converted to a foreign religion.

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