Bankrupt D-list actor Stephen Baldwin tries to make right-wing Christianity "rad"

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AlterNet / By Sarah Posner

Actor Stephen Baldwin Takes Christian Indoctrination to the Xtreme
Original investigative report: How a media-savvy, tough-talking duo are putting their knowledge of youth culture in the service of the paranoid Christian Right.

March 16, 2010 |


Actor Stephen Baldwin has a message for the millennial generation: Jesus is cool, Jesus is rad, Jesus will kick your butt, Jesus will help you kick the butts of secular liberals. Yet while Baldwin seeks to be the hip new face of evangelicalism, promoting the Jesus of skateboarders and cool kids, beneath his radical chic is the ideology of the old men behind the Cold War-era John Birch Society and Christian Crusade.

Together with Christian activist and radio host Kevin McCullough, Baldwin launched a youth-targeted for-profit Christian media company, Xtreme Media, LLC, and the radio program Xtreme Radio with Stephen Baldwin and Kevin McCullough. The aim of Xtreme Media, according to Baldwin, is to create "a content reality we want to utilize to fire up the conservative movement to stand up and push back louder and more ferociously."

Addressing a 2008 religious-right conference, the annual Values Voter Summit sponsored by FRC Action, Baldwin -- the baby of the Baldwin brothers acting family first put on the Hollywood map by brother Alec -- explained that he uses "extreme sports" to recruit young evangelicals "because I believe the way to ensure a better America in the future is make more Christians." At religious right conferences across the nation, Baldwin struts before young and not-so-young audiences, deploying his uber-masculine Christianity as a rebuke to the Hollywood liberals he claims are ruining America.

"We are the hands of the Lord Jesus in this realm," he told the Values Voters. "And I don't know about you -- I'm not tryin' to be dramatic -- I'm puttin' some boxing gloves on mine." ........(more)

The complete piece is at: http://www.alternet.org/investigations/146033/actor_stephen_baldwin_takes_christian_indoctrination_to_the_xtreme

[RandomThoughts]

1. I hope he doesn't forget to mention what Jesus taught.

Love your enemies, turn the other cheek, love your Lord God, and love your neighbor as yourself. Jesus taught other stuff to, its in the gospels.

[jmowreader]

2. They don't know that Jesus

The Jesus they pray to seems to be Supply Side Jesus. who rides in on a dinosaur and does a little kung fu fighting to please the crowd before creating lunch for everyone.

[Lint Head]

3. Another example of the message of Jesus being used and warped

to line the pockets of cynical liars! Real Christians should be appalled at what Benny Hinn, Paul and Jan Crouch, Franklin Graham among many others who are nothing more than greedy bastards. There is nothing Christian about anything they do.

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4. Stephen is an annoying prick

and batshit crazy as well.

[JHB]

5. WWXJD

What Would Xtreme Jesus Do?

Xtreme forgiveness!
Xtreme humility!
Xtreme footwashing!
Xtreme rendering unto Ceaser!

[chollybocker]

6. Yeah right, American kids want to be just like....Stephen Baldwin.

These people are delusional.

[TankLV]

7. "fire up the conservative movement to stand up and push back louder and more ferociously."

Really?!!!

JUST HOW FUCKING MUCH MORE OF THEIR SHRILL AND LOUD ANTICS CAN THIS COUNTRY TAKE?!!!

WHEN HAVE THESE IGNORANT ASSHOLES EVER BEEN ANYTHING BUT LOUD AND FEROCIOUS?!!!

[Initech]

14. George Carlin said it best:

"Who the fuck needs to be motivated? The people who are motivated are the ones who are causing all the trouble - stock swindlers, serial killers, corpse fuckers... Christian conservatives??? These people are highly motivated!!!!"

[Webster Green]

8. He's one hip dude!

:rofl:

[piratefish08]

9. Jesus wuvs you!

[Bluenorthwest]

10. So many things to say but aside from the rest of the balderdash

Stephen Baldwin is in his mid forties. Just not sure how plugged into youth culture he is legally allowed to be these days. Are 45 year olds rad now? This is insane in so many really twitchy ways. For the second time today, oddly, I say poor Alec, with this to deal with.

[Ikonoklast]

11. Every family has one.

As with just about everything else attempted by this guy, it too shall fail.

[Initech]

12. Why am I suddenly reminded of the Extreme sports guys from Harold & Kumar?

:rofl:

[nonconformist]

13. Who's down with G-O-D?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=je18yGc6jXk

[HungLo]

15. Stephen Baldwin.....

Isn't this the same douchebag little prick that said if Obama won he'd leave the country? Typical right-wing liar and flip-flopper.