The unusual warning in the title is NOT a joke. The videos of "Hell House" are disturbing. The clip of the acting troupe doing a parody performance of a typical Hell House isn't any less disconcerting than the real thing. To understand the background check out the often annoying but sometimes right, Richard "Doubting" Dawkins interviewing the Colorado pastor who wrote the first Hell House. We'd like our own five minutes with him to discuss why he thinks it's a good idea to reach people with the love of Christ by acting out a gang rape of a young woman (implying she is at fault), a teenage suicide, an abortion and a school shooting - among other horrible, distasteful, violent and degrading scenes. We could bring our Bibles to show him all the fun, red, letters where Jesus said things like LOVE YOUR NEIGHBOR. BC is calling this WRONG. Simply WRONG. No ambiguity, no justification. This is not biblical. This is not Christian. Halloween is upon on us once again. Hell Houses will be staged across this great country of ours. It's always disconcerting when the First Amendment protects hate speech but that's the price we pay for the freedom to denounce the inane things people do in the name of God.
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Some writers and actors put on Hollywood Hell House a few years back which was a word for word production of the real Hell House script. They, quite obviously, approached Hell House with ripping satire.
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