I got "SAVED" !!!

Scared you there for a minute , didn't I . Not exactly something you hear everyday in the Episcopal tradition . That phrase is a throw back from my childhood spent in the most fundamentalist of enclaves ... South Alabama . What I really got was the movie "SAVED" . Our daughter came to us one day and said that we had to see this movie called "SAVED" she had caught part of it at a friends house during a sleep - over and insisted that we see it . All she said was that it was "a really cool movie" and for those of you who have never had the privilage of meeting the very enthusiastic soul who claims to be our child , she is in a word .... PERSISTANT !! So Big-Daddy-O ordered it from Blockbuster online , who delivered it right to our mailbox , you gotta love that !! I must say that I was more than just a little hesitant about this film , based mainly on the title and what little bits of vague info we could pull from the above mentioned girly-child (she is after all a twelve year old) . Having grown up in the King-James-Only, Full-Imersion-required , No-drinking, card playing, or dancing, "Chick Tract" distrubting portion of the Bible Belt , the whole concept of "being Saved" still makes me a bit queasy . (for those of you who haven't had the pleasure check them out ...http://www.chick.com/catalog/tractlist.asp ... I'm sure you'll be as thrilled with them as I was) The "GOD" of the Fundamentalist "Salvation" was never anything I wanted to have any aquantience with . He is not a God of love , but a God of fear ! I'd be willing to bet more than half of the "soul winning" (what an arrogant concept) that has happend has been out of sheer terror at the thought of burning in hell for all eternity rather than any genuine love for God . But ... I digress ... IMAGINE THAT !!! This movie is a must see , I haven't laughed so hard in quite a while . I swear that the writers of this script went to the same high school I did . It probably wouldn't have been quite so funny had I not have "known" so many of the characters personally, all I would have to do was fill in the blanks with familliar names . It truly is a dead-on portrayal of the fundamentalist mind set . Beware tho' there are few baudy scenes and more than a few "dirty words" so you might want to view it first to judge wheather it is appropriate for your kids . Mid- older teen is my suggestion . The underlying message of the film is that God's love overcomes all things and has no bounderies of "saved or un-saved" . If you are not easily offended by religious humor , check it out , it's a riot !!