I just found out what “Fight Club” is really all about.
It’s a movie based on a book by Chuck Palahniuk about a thirtysomething man who is disenchanted with his life as a pawn of corporate America. So he forms an underground fight club where other disenchanted young men take out their aggression through boxing matches and harmless pranks. It grows, with other fight clubs springing up in cities all over the country, and the whole thing spirals out of control as the pranks grow more and more destructive. The movie came out in 1999 and did terribly at the box office, though it was nominated for several awards. It was released on DVD and since then has grown into an underground cult classic.
This seems to me to be an intriguing idea for what I’ve been trying to do with this series, namely to take down the most deep-seated and essential ills of evangelicalism through excruciatingly potent diatribes. (Although I must confess that I am a bit intrigued by the idea of starting fight clubs to vent frustration with evangelicalism.)
