Holiday Review: Easter Exposed!

In honor of the upcoming Rottentail graphic novel from us at Abnormal Entertainment, the Cheese presents the REAL scoop on this venerated holiday. WARNING: The following may seem blasphemous to sheeple.

Unknown to many Christians, the icons and traditions of most of the celebrations of Easter are from a pagan, or non-Christian, origin. According to the gospel, Easter is the celebration of Christ's resurrection and ascension into Heaven. It is a day of prayer, feasting and penitent worship. Most of the treasured and valued traditions of Easter celebrations, though, are the work of a much older pagan religions and simply have been adopted by first the Catholic church and then, subsequently, by the splinter groups, most prominently the Protestant sects.

Movie Review: Selling God (2011)

Salvation has been for sale since the beginnings of religion. Look at any luxurious church or any stadium filling megachurch that sells tickets to an event. Money and religion, especially Christianity, go hand in hand. I've never been to a Sunday service that didn't involve a collection plate. I've thought for a long time that money is a huge motivator for religious leaders, but how do you sell the idea of religion to the masses?

Buy Selling God on DVD

Selling God goes into the history of religion and how it has attracted followers through televangelist speeches, old movie clips and interviews with a few PhDs and church followers. The film is segmented into chapters, which are oddly noted with a tone you might hear in an audiobook. It touches on everything from heaven and hell to a woman who sold a grilled cheese with the virgin Mary's image on it for $28,000.