Dec 31 2008
Quoting Poetically: Author/Journalist Paul Bibeau on People’s Beliefs
“I was raised Catholic, so I’ve grown up practicing ritual cannibalism and blood drinking with a Jewish cult that just happened to have some very aggressive PR men. I believe in an undead hippy carpenter who died two thousand years ago, but listens to me when I call him up to bitch about my career and occasionally say thanks for a bout of good weather and a nice vacation. So who am I to laugh at other people’s crazy beliefs?” - Paul Bibeau, Sundays with Vlad
In his recent documentary book Sundays with Vlad, Paul Bibeau takes on all the myth and mystique surrounding the world’s seeming obsession with Dracula. In this excerpt, Bibeau discusses his tolerance for neo-Gothic culture and occasional the creepy pallor of Hot Topic employees in his neighborhood mall by rather concisely dissecting the Roman Catholic faith in the above terms (i.e., the bread and wine of communion actually become the body and blood of the risen Christ in masked form in some less Hannibal Lector-like kind of way).
I haven’t read the book itself, but when I saw this quote on a friend’s Facebook page, I had to snatch it up and comment on it here. I laughed heartily and thought to myself, “This definition makes Scientology look normal… jeez!”
For more on Sundays with Vlad visit the book’s homepage here.
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