And don't forget Sin-a-max!

REPORTER, n.
A writer who guesses his way to the truth and dispels it with a tempest of words. Ambrose Bierce

Having been born and reared in the Bible Belt, I can honestly say I've never heard of HBO being called "Hell's Box Office." But after looking at the schedule for Jan. 25th ( Big Momma's House II, Miss Congeniality II, City Slickers II, Trilogy of Terror II ), I might just start doing that. But, again, I've never heard any friend, stranger or member of the Baptist church that I grew up in say that. Have you?

Alexandra Pelosi's HBO documentary, Friends of God, is a look at the wacky evangelicals and their wacky hijinks in America. As it is just premiering, I have not seen it, but I did see her interview on Hannity & Colmes. Note how she, a documentary filmmaker, and Alan Colmes, a journalist, both are just flabbergasted that self-professed Christians tend to reject things they see as un-Christian and/or immoral. Christians playing miniature golf, racing, wrestling and singing hip-hop in a Christian format strike Colmes with the same amount of incredulity as finding out that Lubbockites didn't torch theaters that showed Brokeback Mountain. Is it indicative of today's journalism that a woman from New York is so ignorant of the basic habits and beliefs of 25-45 percent of the population (evangelicals), which are themselves a subset of about 75% of the population (Christianity)? She says that they don't like her because she's from New York and study her...she's a "creature." How much study did she put in? There is a chasm of understanding that cannot be bridged by a one-hour documentary or one trip to church on Sunday, and an unwillingness by either side to spend the time necessary to understand the other just indicates an unwillingness to solve the problem.

Colmes asks where the liberal, Democrat evangelicals are. Pelosi posits that she doesn't know and suggests that maybe it is because Hannity doesn't give them any air time. Well, why doesn't she? How hard did she look? Not in the news. Not here. And not at my church in Lubbock. Hell, nobody would know she was a damn yankee. My church doesn't want to inconvenience anyone. You won't be asked to identify yourself, speak or be tagged a visitor. You'll never stand up alone. All standing and sitting is clearly led by professionals who have yet to out even one pagan. Want a liberal dose of biblical reality? Stroll around in the children's wing, which is "decorated like a Palestinian Village." As always, all errors and omissions are the sole responsiblity of the China Post.