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Michael Moore, Oscar and Emmy-winning director

via Michael Moore: For Those of You on Your Way to Church This Morning…
by Michael Moore, Oscar and Emmy-winning director, Posted on Huffington Post: October 4, 2009 04:59 AM

Friends,

I’d like to have a word with those of you who call yourselves Christians (Muslims, Jews, Buddhists, Bill Maherists, etc. can read along, too, as much of what I have to say, I’m sure, can be applied to your own spiritual/ethical values).

In my new film I speak for the first time in one of my movies about my own spiritual beliefs. I have always believed that one’s religious leanings are deeply personal and should be kept private. After all, we’ve heard enough yammerin’ in the past three decades about how one should “behave,” and I have to say I’m pretty burned out on pieties and platitudes considering we are a violent nation that invades other countries and punishes our own for having the audacity to fall on hard times.

There are some thousands out there who denigrate Mr. Moore at every opportunity. People call him names like anti-American and socialist, and media whore. People hate Michael Moore so much that there are blogs and bulletin boards galore on the web dedicated solely to hating him and slinging vitriolic hyperbole at him. There was even a documentary done back in 2004 that set out to prove the number one burning issue that must be on everyone’s mind and that issue is Michael Moore Hates America.

This is an example from Blogcritics.org of the vitriol aimed at Moore right after Fahrenheit 911 was released:

I started hating him when, in the immediate wake of 9/11, he pondered why it had happened. You see, in Moore’s world, this was a direct result of the Bush administration’s refusal to support the Kyoto Treaty. He wondered why the terrorists (freedom-fighters?) would attack New York, since that state went for Gore, and most of the murdered were likely Democrats.

Didn’t everybody? Ponder why it happened, I mean.

That leads me to the point. Indirectly, Michael Moore defines who we are as a nation. He doesn’t do it himself, but rather the multitude – the right-wing, hate-mongering, violence peddling, tea-bag crowd does it for him. America is not a peace-loving christian nation.

Those that compare the President of the United States to a monkey on tee shirts, a humiliating racial slur, and those that carry guns to events near the President define America as a lawless, barbaric society by their actions far more clearly than the questions that Michael Moore puts forth in his documentaries.

He brings these individuals out from under their rocks so they can hurl vitriol at him and therefore prove what he is saying – that we are not a christian nation, or any other religion for that matter. A christian nation would provide health care for the sick to everyone, even illegal immigrants, just because they are sick and no other reason.

This is who we are, a nation of barbarians and money grubbers, and Mr. Moore merely reflects these truths back at us. I guess that is why they hate him.