Friday, May 25, 2007
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What Would Jesus Buy?Author: Reverend Billy
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About This Book
Be forewarned: This book is a joke, but it uses irony to great effect to spotlight America's love affair with shopping! "Reverend" Billy of the Church of Stop Shopping shares his hilarious but spot-on views on American consumerism in this book, a companion to Super Size Me creator Morgan Spurlock's new upcoming film about the Reverend Billy's satirical revival tour across America.
The Reverend Billy is a creation of the actor and activist Bill Talen. Reverend Billy believes, simply, that Big Box Brainless consumerism is destroying our culture and our planet. Here's a sample of his rhetoric:
Now children, we are all Shopping Sinners. Each of us is walking around in a swirl of gas and oil, plastics and foil. We should all hit our knees and weep and confess together. We are not evil people, but somehow we have allowed the Lords of Consumption to organize us into these mobs that buy and dispose, cry and reload. Yes, the Rapture of the Final Consumption, the Shopture, is underway.
Talen first first began preaching as Reverend Billy in Times Square, New York City, and has since been incessantly spreading the word at major retail stores from San Francisco to New York City. His activism led to his arrest with great panache as he led prayers against consumerism in Disneyland.
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