Help the South

Tomorrow is Free Comic Book Day, and while this is cool and all, I'd like to dedicate this week's post to the victims of the recent tornado outbreaks down South. If anyone of you out there reading this is among the victims of this tragedy, I hope you all are getting the help you need and please stay strong and never lose hope.

If you wish to help, please visit here and here.

Feel free to distribute this poster anywhere. Have a safe weekend.

Jesus Camp

I know I'm late to the party, but I finally saw the 2006 documentary "Jesus Camp", and DEAR LORD, that was possibly the scariest film I have ever watched. The documentary was infamous enough to have the camp featured in it shut down, and with good reason. Many of the children, in my opinion, appear to be brainwashed into believing far-right Christian ideology, and will even die for God. Hmmm...a religious camp filled with revolution-minded zealots that indoctrinate children to fight and die for God...where have I heard that before?

In short, the documentary is quite disturbing, but don't think that this covers fundamentalist Christianity as a whole; it's just the radical fringe movement that's giving their religion a bad name, similar to al-Qaida being one of the main causes for Islamophobia. You can watch "Jesus Camp" here. (The film is divided up into nine parts. The link takes you to the first part.)

Extremism, whether religious or otherwise, is never a good thing; Aristotle was said to apply "moderation in all things", and even the Bible stresses moderation in 1 Corinthians 9:25:

"And every man that striveth for the mastery is temperate in all things. Now they [do it] to obtain a corruptible crown; but we an incorruptible."

Whether you're a Christian, Muslim, Jew, atheist, or otherwise, I think we all can agree on praying for the all of the children who went through the Kids on Fire Summer Camp and other camps like it. They'll need it.



"Jesus Camp" © Rachel Grady & Heidi Ewing. Distributed by Magnolia Pictures.

Our Alliance - A Lasting Partnership

Recently, the United States Armed Forces in Japan posted a cute manga highlighting 50 years of the American-Japanese post-war alliance. Titled "Watashi-tachi no Dōmei", or "Our Alliance", it shows cute representations of the USA (named Usa-kun) and Japan (named Arai Anzu) living together as friends and partners and teaches readers what the alliance stands for. You can read the first chapter for free on their website here. More chapters will be posted in the future.

For a propaganda piece, it's quite cute. But, it's obvious that the USFJ omit the negative press concerning American G.I. presence in Japan, such as mass protests by the Japanese about US military bases in Okinawa and a number of schoolgirl rapes being committed by servicemen.

You can download the English scanlation here, courtesy of /a/non scanlations.

じゃあね,


Sources: 1, 2, 3 (Final source link is NSFW.)

"Watashi-tachi no Dōmei — Eizoku-teki Partnership" © 2010 U.S. Forces Japan.