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4:45 pm - 01/18/2013

"God Loves Uganda" participating to the Sundance Festival

God Loves Uganda explores the role of the American evangelical movement in Uganda, where American missionaries have been credited with both creating schools and hospitals and promoting dangerous religious bigotry. The film follows evangelical leaders in America and Uganda along with politicians and missionaries as they attempt the radical task of eliminating “sexual sin” and converting Ugandans to fundamentalist Christianity.
As an American influenced bill to make homosexuality punishable by death wins widespread support, tension in Uganda mounts and an atmosphere of murderous hatred takes hold. The film reveals the conflicting motives of faith and greed, ecstasy and egotism, among Ugandan ministers, American evangelical leaders and the foot soldiers of a theology that sees Uganda as a test case, ground zero in a battle not for millions, but billions of souls.
Through verite, interviews, and hidden camera footage – and with unprecedented access – God Loves Uganda takes viewers inside the evangelical movement in both the US and Uganda.  It features Lou Engle, the creator of The Call which brings tens of thousands of believers together to pray against sexual sin. It provides a rare view of the most powerful evangelical minister in Uganda, who lives in a mansion where he’s served by a white-coated chef. It goes into a Ugandan church where a preacher whips a congregation into mass hysteria with anti-gay rhetoric. It records the culture clash between enthusiastic Midwestern missionaries and world weary Ugandans. It features a heartbreaking interview with gay activist David Kato shortly before he was murdered. It tells the moving story of Bishop Christopher Senyonjo, a minister excommunicated, ostracized and literally spat on for being tolerant and his remarkable campaign for peace and healing in Uganda. Shocking, horrifying, touching and enlightening, God Loves Uganda will make you question what you thought you knew about religion.

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wauwy 18th-Jan-2013 04:07 pm (UTC)
I can't fathom being part of an organized religion, but tbh even if religion didn't exist, humans would find an excuse to be shit like this to each other. In fact, a lot of beliefs were created to give them an excuse.

It's a chicken-or-the-egg thing. (Even though the answer to that is "the mutated dinosaur egg," but let's pretend we don't know that)
lockupmytears 18th-Jan-2013 05:42 pm (UTC)
IA. Regardless of religion, human/animal nature will never change.
eden 18th-Jan-2013 07:00 pm (UTC)
Bingo. It's sad that the vast majority of 'enlightened' individuals will never accept this because, to them, religion will always be the big bad. At the end of the day, it's a shield for the willfully ignorant and phobic to hide behind and project.
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