normal and uncommon

sometimes i feel like i'm living in the 1% community of christians in the entire world that aren't absolute morons. is it sometimes, or all of the time?

where did these people learn these ridiculous ideas? who taught them that it's "good" to be ignorant about religions, science, politics, and sex? why do they act completely out of their minds sometimes? what are they actually doing when they're "spending time with the Lord?" do they just sit there crouched in an uncomfortable position, hands folded, eyes closed, muttering to themselves morologic gibberish until they feel better? or pour over theological books for hours and write hundreds of pages about what that one word in revelations means? i mean, seriously, where are all the logical, practical people outside the few i know?

recently, after my fling with studio 60, i finally became fed up with all the inaccurate portrayals of christians in the media. can you say, "cliche?" yes, i know. but follow me down to rabbit hole, won't you?

it was never a curiosity before. i mean, it's only natural that most writers, producers, directors, and actors making the stuff that get the most audiences would know nothing about a belief that most of them find archaic, offensive, and controlling. they make plenty of shows and films about medicine, government, and law to which they are oblivious, and it shows in the inaccurate rubbish of all their particulars. my epidemiologist friend and i used to spend numerous delightful evenings laughing at the logic behind many episodes of house and star trek.

however, once in a while, though imaginative and far-fetched, we come across a generally possible depiction of science, politics, family, world affairs, and life. (though, i will say that for the most part, these illustrations, as with all art, were meant to present aspects of reality rather than the whole and so are yet quite departed from an entire representation) it isn't so different from the reality that we, as the audience, have come to know that we detach ourselves from it. that is the very backbone of narrative--to capture the perceiver with the believability so that one may take him anywhere one wants.

yet it's nearly impossible for me to follow my story-tellers anywhere when they incorporate christians into their stories because i simply cannot believe it any longer. like when koreans watch "lost" and immediately become disillusioned with all the terrible korean being spoken. no matter how much i want to believe. it is impossible.

so, WHY is there so little to no believable christian characters in american cimena/television? well, that's an entire theological book all on its own. however, one thing that's struck me recently is this:
THAT THERE ARE NO NORMAL CHRISTIANS AROUND.

alright, to be fair, i actually mean... around those who are writing and making these art pieces.

there are insane christian characters who kneel in the middle of a business meeting to pray and sleep with their bosses on tv. there are characters who go around in thick knitted sweaters condemning people and reciting bible verses from the king james version and saying that sex is a sin. and there are minister characters who look cool and swear and date non-christians and pray almost all day every day.

where in the darkness of aphrodite's butt-hole did these writers get these ideas?!

i submit that they got them from real life. no wonder non-christians are confused about what christians are like. there are very very few actually normal ones living.