{"id":3268,"date":"2003-01-02T16:54:59","date_gmt":"2003-01-02T21:54:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/?p=3268"},"modified":"2014-06-13T17:11:28","modified_gmt":"2014-06-13T23:11:28","slug":"alert_alert","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2003\/01\/02\/alert_alert.html","title":{"rendered":"Alert!  Alert!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m shocked &#8212; shocked! &#8212; to discover that a movie like <i>The Two Towers <\/i>is allowed to be released when it has so much <a title=\"*LORD OF THE RINGS: THE TWO TOWERS* ChildCare Action Project (CAP) Media Analysis Report MAR22130\" href=\"http:\/\/www.capalert.com\/capreports\/lotr-towers.htm#footnote 2\">Offense to God<\/a> in it, according to the Good People at the ChildCare Action Project.  This Offense includes:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>unholy influence on thinking\n<li>tale of evil control over &#8220;good&#8221;\n<li>sorcery to defeat beast\n<li>gaiaism (talking trees), repeatedly\n<li>psychic premonitions and possessions, repeatedly\n<li>&#8220;all-knowing wizard&#8221;\n<li>unholy apparitions\n<li>the &#8220;undead&#8221; terrorizing others\n<li>mockery of the Transformation\n<li>sorcery to defend\n<li>sorcery to do battle with evil beast\n<li>resurrection, mockery of the Transformation\n<li>casting out demon\n<li>miraculous reverse aging\n<li>creatures claiming immorality\n<li>crystal ball sorcery\n<li>foretelling future\n<li>demon possession<\/p>\n<p>Especially that <i>gaiaism <\/i>stuff &#8212; I knew there was something offensive about those talking trees!<\/ul>\n<p>Though, to be fair, it got downchecked even more in the Wanton Violence\/Crime category.<\/p>\n<p><small>(via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.spleenville.com\/blog\/archives\/000680.html\">Andrea<\/a>, who notes that the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.etext.org\/Politics\/MIM\/movies\/review.php?f=long\/lordoftherings2.txt\">Maoist Movie Reviews <\/a>site isn&#8217;t too wild about <i>TTT<\/i>, either.)<\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m shocked &#8212; shocked! &#8212; to discover that a movie like The Two Towers is allowed to be released when it has so much Offense to God in it, according&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[382,15,27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3268","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lord-of-the-rings","category-media","category-religion"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":2143,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2002\/03\/03\/proof_positive.html","url_meta":{"origin":3268,"position":0},"title":"Proof positive","author":"***Dave","date":"Sun 3-Mar-02 3:50pm","format":false,"excerpt":"After years of folks claiming quite explicitly that D&D and Harry Potter books can teach impressionable youngsters how to perform evil, Satanic sorcery, this gent decided to actually test the...","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Gaming&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Gaming","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/gaming"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":5300,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2004\/04\/10\/sorcerer.html","url_meta":{"origin":3268,"position":1},"title":"Sorcerer","author":"***Dave","date":"Sat 10-Apr-04 11:31am","format":false,"excerpt":"Played my first session of Sorcerer last night, courtesy of Doyce (write there to follow, no doubt). 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