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So...this is really um, fascinating.
Kirk Cameron (yeah, that Kirk Cameron) and some other people from his...church? minitry? organization? Something or other turns up at a Druidic Equinox ritual last weekend. And secretly recorded the proceedings...audio and video in a tiny hidden camera and microphone.
They then made a podcast using some of the audio from this recording. The link above is to the podcast, where they spend about 20 minutes playing clips and ridiculing the goings-on and the answers to their questions.
They comment on how they're secretly recording, and how at one point, they're afraid of being found out (in the recording, Mr. Cameron says that he was carrying a visible tape recorder and when someone commented that he didn't want to answer a question because he was being recorded, took the recorder out of his pocket and said that he was going to ask permission to record, but had not started to record.)
So...secretly recording...which is illegal in many areas. Carrying a decoy. Wow...so are there special exceptions to the ten commandments when you're uncovering the devil's work? I don't think so, and I think they know it too because hey, they're afraif of being discovered. Sign of guilt?
So after listening to this podcast, I decided to write a response which I sent to all of the contact emails on the website (http://www.wayofthemaster.com)
Dear Kirk, et al
Upon finding out about your visiting a Druidic Equinox celebration and creating a podcast with it, I felt compelled to hunt it down and give it a listen.
I find it very interesting that you came in with a hidden camera and microphone. I also find it very interesting that Mr. Cameron carried a visible tape recorder- a decoy? And played the whole thing off as if he were intending to ask permission to record when it was noticed. He was nervous about the possibility of the real camera and microphone being discovered...
Fascinating.
Was my Sunday school teacher wrong, or is there not a commandment that says "thou shalt not bear false witness"? Or is it justified when you feel that you are uncovering "the devil's work"?
Was the nervousness of having your lie uncovered perhaps a symptom of guilt? Or has your God already forgiven this transgression in your efforts to save the souls of those that believe differently than you do?
And to address the podcast itself...was my Sunday school teacher also wrong in saying the Jesus taught love and compassion? Or have derrision, ridicule and arrogance suddenly become Biblical values?
If there was ever any possibility that I might support your particular efforts, you've just slammed that door. I sincerely hope that those that come to Christ do so by way of the teachings of Jesus, which I've found severely lacking in your material.
Renee R,
Maryland
The problem here is not that they disagree with some other religion. It's not that they think that it's wrong or that some particular views are wrong and that they're right. Or that they completely ridiculed what they saw....
It's that they came into a ritual, secretly recorded it- a huge lie of omission to begin with- but then had a decoy recorder to cover it up.
So...you've got these people scalp-deep in hypocracy, violating people's trust and privacy, lying to cover it up....until they go internet-wide with it.
So...this is really um, fascinating.
Kirk Cameron (yeah, that Kirk Cameron) and some other people from his...church? minitry? organization? Something or other turns up at a Druidic Equinox ritual last weekend. And secretly recorded the proceedings...audio and video in a tiny hidden camera and microphone.
They then made a podcast using some of the audio from this recording. The link above is to the podcast, where they spend about 20 minutes playing clips and ridiculing the goings-on and the answers to their questions.
They comment on how they're secretly recording, and how at one point, they're afraid of being found out (in the recording, Mr. Cameron says that he was carrying a visible tape recorder and when someone commented that he didn't want to answer a question because he was being recorded, took the recorder out of his pocket and said that he was going to ask permission to record, but had not started to record.)
So...secretly recording...which is illegal in many areas. Carrying a decoy. Wow...so are there special exceptions to the ten commandments when you're uncovering the devil's work? I don't think so, and I think they know it too because hey, they're afraif of being discovered. Sign of guilt?
So after listening to this podcast, I decided to write a response which I sent to all of the contact emails on the website (http://www.wayofthemaster.com)
Dear Kirk, et al
Upon finding out about your visiting a Druidic Equinox celebration and creating a podcast with it, I felt compelled to hunt it down and give it a listen.
I find it very interesting that you came in with a hidden camera and microphone. I also find it very interesting that Mr. Cameron carried a visible tape recorder- a decoy? And played the whole thing off as if he were intending to ask permission to record when it was noticed. He was nervous about the possibility of the real camera and microphone being discovered...
Fascinating.
Was my Sunday school teacher wrong, or is there not a commandment that says "thou shalt not bear false witness"? Or is it justified when you feel that you are uncovering "the devil's work"?
Was the nervousness of having your lie uncovered perhaps a symptom of guilt? Or has your God already forgiven this transgression in your efforts to save the souls of those that believe differently than you do?
And to address the podcast itself...was my Sunday school teacher also wrong in saying the Jesus taught love and compassion? Or have derrision, ridicule and arrogance suddenly become Biblical values?
If there was ever any possibility that I might support your particular efforts, you've just slammed that door. I sincerely hope that those that come to Christ do so by way of the teachings of Jesus, which I've found severely lacking in your material.
Renee R,
Maryland
The problem here is not that they disagree with some other religion. It's not that they think that it's wrong or that some particular views are wrong and that they're right. Or that they completely ridiculed what they saw....
It's that they came into a ritual, secretly recorded it- a huge lie of omission to begin with- but then had a decoy recorder to cover it up.
So...you've got these people scalp-deep in hypocracy, violating people's trust and privacy, lying to cover it up....until they go internet-wide with it.
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