Johnny Baptist or Religious Fanatics Can Be Funny!

This is a short I wrote a few years ago. The gentleman playing Johnny Baptist is David Wheeler. David is quite the character. Besides being brilliant he survived growing up in Texas! This character was his idea, but having been brought up in a Baptist household I thought I could do him justice.

What? You didn't know I was brought up in a Baptist home?

It would be difficult not to have been brought up in a more Baptisty home. Dad was a Church Deacon and Ma was the Church Organist and Choir Director. We weren't Southern Baptists. Those people were traitors to the Union. The Southern Baptists became their own sect in 1845 because they liked doing the slavery (ergo the Southern qualifier in Southern Baptist). You shouldn't think that my folks were liberal types. Oh no, Dad was in the Korean War and fought alongside African Americans and didn't like the "Darkies" (his word not mine!) one bit.

This is the first of two Johnny Baptist shorts and I'll post the other one sometime when I don't feel like doing too much writing. That and a desire to dig up more of my Christo-Fascist past.

I have recently sent this short in to the Atheist Film Festival in Portland, OR. I'm waiting to hear back from them.