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Saturday, November 14, 2009

You can praise him when you…

Oh man. I’m so glad my early Christian years were limited to influence by the intolerable Davy and Goliath. If I had watched Psalty the Singing Songbook like Godless Girl did, I would have ended up going postal.

When I was a teen, one of my first jobs was working in a Christian business that distributed Davy and Goliath movies to churches around Southern California. My job involved shipping and receiving plus the general care of film stock. When a movie was returned, I would rewind it while running it through a monitor to check for damage. I fixed the damaged frames by removal or splicing in replacement footage from film stock. By the time I quit (or was fired), I had watched every Christian film in stock backwards at least a dozen times. It was an odd form of torture. I still dream about it.

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Mike aka MonolithTMA 58p · 804 weeks ago

I remember watch that, I also remember people re-dubbing it for humor's sake.;-)

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1minion · 804 weeks ago

I have dim recollections of that claymation "classic" but I more fondly recall "Circle Square" and their "Mail Call!" segment where they'd read out some fan mail and then remind everyone watching of what their address was. It was a very annoying jingle and given beer I'm sure I could still recite the whole thing at top volume. I don't know if it was shown across Canada when I was a kid but I did like their little parable cartoons. I expect the kids and puppets had morality plays they'd act out, too, but it's been a while.

For a while I did entertain desire to try one of their bible camps. The ads at the end of the show made them look very fun but since my folks wouldn't let me attend the little one three miles away, asking to go across country to something like that was automatically out of the question. Still wish I'd experienced camp in some form, though. Ah well. One of life's many little regrets.

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No2Religion 85p · 804 weeks ago

It's amazing you're still sane, at least I assume you're still sane, after seeing these movies so many times.

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Mojoey 107p · 804 weeks ago

I think it contributed to my several youthful mistakes. But I'm older now...

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Buffy 83p · 804 weeks ago

I watched that when I was a young'un. Interestingly, I wasn't indoctrinated until I was eight, and my family never talked about religion/god before we started going to church. So though I watched D&G and other shows that were dripping with God references I had the impression that God was one of those characters that was talked about and never seen. It wasn't until the church thing started up that I was fed the whole thing about loving and worshiping God because he created the world and will send you to hell if you don't , yadda yadda yadda.

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Mojoey 107p · 804 weeks ago

Oh unique is that? God as the unseen character - that's funny on so many levels.

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