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Getting Drunk on God
#19297671 - 12/19/13 11:50 AM (10 years, 1 month ago) |
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Has anyone seen this documentary? Or heard of this?
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God is descending on Minneapolis in the form of invisible spliffs and imaginary lines of coke. The Drunken Glory movement—spawned by events like the Florida Outpouring and Toronto Blessing in the 90s, at which people appeared to be inebriated and high purely off the power of God—is on the rise, as godly YouTube channels find innovative ways of reaching their younger audience.
One of those channels, Red Letter Ministries, is run by former meth addict Brandon Barthrop. We went to Brandon's hometown of Minneapolis, which boasts the largest concentration of drug addicts and churches in America, to try to get high on the glory of God.
Brandon and his posse of waifs, strays, and former addicts spend their days sniffing "diamond oil" and tripping out to the sound of Brandon's YouTube preaching. Christian EDM DJs down the road are going to raves and attempting to "heal" clubbers high on drugs, and mega-churches run by rehab charities like Teen Challenge are preaching the drunken glory to thousands.
I think this melted my brain.
The Christian trance music at 21:20
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Re: Getting Drunk on God [Re: Set]
#19297708 - 12/19/13 12:02 PM (10 years, 1 month ago) |
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o_O
That's weird as hell. Right in my hometown, too. Did not know we had the "largest concentration of drug addicts and churches in America" though.
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Re: Getting Drunk on God [Re: Set]
#19297714 - 12/19/13 12:03 PM (10 years, 1 month ago) |
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thank god for vice!
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Re: Getting Drunk on God [Re: Josh.0]
#19297757 - 12/19/13 12:15 PM (10 years, 1 month ago) |
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I assume they meant "North Minneapolis" when they said "North Minnesota, MN." Nice research. 
North Minneapolis is a shithole.
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Re: Getting Drunk on God [Re: NetDiver]
#19297777 - 12/19/13 12:20 PM (10 years, 1 month ago) |
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getting drunk on satan sounds a lot more fun
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Set
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Re: Getting Drunk on God [Re: NetDiver]
#19297837 - 12/19/13 12:35 PM (10 years, 1 month ago) |
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Watching this again since I 'd so hard the first time.
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When Jesus was a baby he started huffing frankincense right in the crib. There's evidence he was high from birth.
I'm still not sure if this guy is a massive troll or serious.
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Re: Getting Drunk on God [Re: Set]
#19297945 - 12/19/13 01:05 PM (10 years, 1 month ago) |
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This is good, it helps suggest to the religious that God is down with getting high.
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Re: Getting Drunk on God [Re: Set]
#19297951 - 12/19/13 01:06 PM (10 years, 1 month ago) |
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Set said: The Christian trance music at 21:20

dudes on god
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Re: Getting Drunk on God [Re: Hobozen]
#19298011 - 12/19/13 01:22 PM (10 years, 1 month ago) |
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Some people are so fucking stupid... This is beyond stupid, the word to describe it has not been invesnted simply because nobody thought it this level of stupid could be possible.
Religion poisons everything. Especially the minds of vulnerable people.
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Re: Getting Drunk on God [Re: Patlal]
#19298016 - 12/19/13 01:24 PM (10 years, 1 month ago) |
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I don't think that it does at all, and don't see much evidence for it. I think that a society that's gone off the rails reflects that in many avenues - and for that, I see much evidence.
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Re: Getting Drunk on God [Re: Patlal]
#19298043 - 12/19/13 01:33 PM (10 years, 1 month ago) |
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Spontaneous ecstasy isn't unheard of, look up whirling dirvishes (sufism) or bhakti worship (hinduism).
That being said, I feel these guys are full of shit. "It's called diamond oil. I invented it, and own the patents on it." I'm sure you make a killing selling this healthy holy ghost body high to foolish folk.
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Greendreams said: Interesting documentary.
The power of the placebo effect. I grew up going to a church where people regularly "spoke in tongues" and it's the same thing. If you want to believe something bad enough you can trick yourself into thinking it's real.
Yeah good point.
Here's another interesting Vice documentary, sorta related.
Teenage Exorcists
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Sick of taking responsibility for the shitty things that have happened to you in your life? Help is on the way, in the virginal and strangely vacant form of three Bible-thumping teenage exorcists from Phoenix, Arizona. Eighteen-year-old Brynne Larson and her friends Tess and Savannah Sherkenback (18 and 21, respectively) claim to be able to confront the demons lurking inside traumatized people and draw them out using nothing more than a crucifix and a few choice words. But are these teenage exorcists really empowered by the Almighty, or merely by Brynne's father, a failed televangelist named Reverend Bob?
In our new film, the girls and Reverend Bob give us exclusive access to their tour of Ukraine, during which they attempt to save the souls of recovering drug addicts and exorcise people's "sexually transmitted demons."
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While unperishing love melted my bones, I cried I shouted again and again, louder than the waves of the billowing sea, I became confused, I fell, I rolled, I wailed, Bewildered like a madman, Intoxicated like a crazy drunk, so that people were puzzled and those who heard wondered. Wild as a rutting elephant which cannot be mounted, I could not contain myself.
--Manikkavacakar, a ninth century Shaivite saint/poet
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Re: Getting Drunk on God [Re: Set]
#19298246 - 12/19/13 02:24 PM (10 years, 1 month ago) |
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Set said: I'm still not sure if this guy is a massive troll.
I'm really trying hard to convince myself that he's a troll, nothing more.....but I have a feeling that's not the case.
If there is a God, he has a sick and twisted sense of humor, putting me on the same planet as these people
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I feel like your if you feel like you're on ecstacy all the time this way is the same way schizophrenic people feel like they're on acid all the time.
But fuck it, that brandon dude seemed cool, I'd pass an invisible spliff with him. But I'd punch that Christian DJ in the face.
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