Quoting Stephen Duncombe
Posted March 16th, 2007 by surplus
At first read, this is just another arch-ironic send-up of organizationd religion staged in front of a crowd of urban hipsters. And it is. “We use right-wing hate preachers’ images and turn them inside out,” Bill explains. But it is also something much more: the service is a genuin service in communion and shared faith around a world not centered on consumption. Everyone knows that Bill is not a real reverend and that they are not real churchgoers, yet it doesn’t seem to matter. It is still deeply moving. Talen (Reverend Billy’s real name) has created, in his own words, a “god that people who do not believe in god believe in.”
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