Title: Moving and amusing, sympathetic and factual
Product review: George Ratliff has made a gem of documentary in "Hell House." He exposes the scary ignorance of fundamentalist Christians by letting them speak for themselves, while at the same time showing their humanity and that, however misguided, they do care about their fellow human beings and want to save them. The only objection I could offer is that from what appears in the documentary, the only critics of the Hell House are incoherent raging teenagers, whose objections are skillfully and calmly responded to by a member of the church. Yet I know from first-hand knowledge that there are critics of fundamentalism (Christian and otherwise) who are capably of equally calm and skilled rational debate. Perhaps they just aren't found in that part of Texas...
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