Hillsong

[marmalade]

Secrets of Hillsong premiers 5/19 on FX (USA). Trailer;

 

[SisterCupcake]

Wow...so at least from that trailer, Carl Lentz is painted as a martyr - "I mean, what I did was bad, but that's just the tip of the iceberg folks..." Interesting way to frame it.

[Ozlsn]

On 5/5/2023 at 4:19 AM, SisterCupcake said:

Wow...so at least from that trailer, Carl Lentz is painted as a martyr - "I mean, what I did was bad, but that's just the tip of the iceberg folks..." Interesting way to frame it.

Ooh, how to throw the people you might need under the bus. Good move Lentz, and I need more popcorn.

[clueliss]

There’s a Hillsong documentary from FX on Hulu that premiered this week.  Two of four parts are available right now.  

[JermajestyDuggar]

46 minutes ago, clueliss said:

There’s a Hillsong documentary from FX on Hulu that premiered this week.  Two of four parts are available right now.  

Thanks for the reminder. I meant to watch. I will try to watch the first one today.

[Pecansforeveryone]

The documentary is quite good. I felt some for Laura Lentz and after what she disclosed, I really felt for their children. The documentary gives several challenging voices to the Lentz es so it is by no means just Carl playing "woe is me."

[Cam]

20 hours ago, Pecansforeveryone said:

The documentary is quite good. I felt some for Laura Lentz and after what she disclosed, I really felt for their children. The documentary gives several challenging voices to the Lentz es so it is by no means just Carl playing "woe is me."

Isn’t it something that you and no doubt many others feel for their children, yet they never seemed to think about how their actions would affect their own children. 

[JermajestyDuggar]

I do feel for the children but I have a hard time feeling for most of the adults. They were adults and I think they were often complicate in a lot of messed up shit. 

[stylites]

On 5/21/2023 at 2:27 PM, Pecansforeveryone said:

The documentary is quite good. I felt some for Laura Lentz and after what she disclosed, I really felt for their children. The documentary gives several challenging voices to the Lentz es so it is by no means just Carl playing "woe is me."

I thought it was better than I feared, though there was a certain amount of exculpation going on as you point out.  What struck me was how much Hillsong is a business model layered over a way of doing church.  Parts of it are essentially a form of MLM - complete people labouring for free as a form of sweat equity - that constantly seeks to grow the 'downstream'.  There are also places where the model of a church breaks down because of the scale and visibility with which they operate - like Hillsong spinning and leaking audio to justify their decisions to get rid of the Lentz's to protect the institution against taint.  Obviously you feel sorry for them, but on the other hand they were okay with the system until it happened to them.

[marmalade]

Parts 3/4 air late tonight on FX.