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<\/a><\/div>\nEven though it’s not a speaking role, my friend Godfrey does a great job getting into character as the leper.\u00a0 Godfrey was one of my students at the local secondary school.\u00a0 He is also one of the most extraordinary individuals I know.\u00a0 After both of his parents and two of his siblings died of AIDS when he was 13, Godfrey took over the family farm.\u00a0 Child-headed households are common in Kiwangala, but Godfrey is different because has always taken on the hardship with an entrepreneurial spirit.\u00a0 Even though he’s in the field every morning and evening doing the work of four people, he’s still one of the top students of his class.\u00a0 He also sells the bananas and the sugarcane that he grows at the school canteen<\/a>.\u00a0 He’s active in athletics, the church, and drama as you can see here.\u00a0 Last year he was featured in a movie I made about World AIDS Day<\/a>.\u00a0 Godfrey is an inspiration to never give up.\u00a0 He even convinced me to buy 100 kgs of popcorn kernels that he popped up and passed out at The Reveal Truth<\/strong> premier.<\/p>\n One of the pivotal scenes in Part 3 is when Jesus counsels Nicodemus<\/a> and convinces him to be born again.\u00a0 If you want to go to heaven you must first be saved, He says.\u00a0 Working in community development I partnered with many faith-based organizations and attended their services on Sunday.\u00a0 Often the lessons of the Bible would be eclipsed by calls from the pastor in his sermon to recruit new members of the church.\u00a0 When the Ugandans found out that I was not Born Again they aggressively tried to save me.\u00a0 On one of the numerous occasions, I was in a parked car with a church member waiting for a thunderstorm to die down outside.\u00a0 We were making conversation to pass the time. One thing led to another and all of a sudden he was trying to save me.\u00a0 The more I resisted the worse it got.\u00a0 I felt like I was on a bad date at the drive-in.\u00a0 The rain couldn’t stop quick enough.<\/p>\n Obviously missionaries have a lot to do with with Uganda’s religious fervor.\u00a0 They are responsible for a large portion of the country’s humanitarian development work and nobly live out in the bush with the most impovrished.\u00a0 However, their gifts come with a trade off.\u00a0 Their mission is to recruit more Christians.\u00a0 Many are eager to sign up, but for what?\u00a0 A new religion or to receive foreign aid<\/a>?<\/p>\n Despite my criticism of the Born Agains, I think that the religion does help to purify the souls of Uganda.\u00a0 The Masaka district has been hit hard by spells of bad luck, most recently with AIDS, but also with war.\u00a0 During the civil war in the 1980s both sides fought with child soldiers.\u00a0 I’ve met a few that have grown into adults.\u00a0 It has been suggested to me that by being Born Again they can finally step away from their old lives of violence and the circumstances they were forced into, and start fresh.\u00a0 Being Born again gives them the psychological release to control their destiny<\/a>.<\/p>\n The Revealed Truth Blog Series<\/span><\/p>\n This post is the fourth of a nine part series that takes an in-depth look at the The Revealed Truth<\/strong> and how rural Ugandan culture influenced the making of the film.\u00a0 The\u00a0 movie is about an hour\u00a0 long\u00a0 but I’ve broken it down into 5 to 10 minute blog-size episodes.\u00a0 The next post will feature Judas.<\/a><\/p>\n [youtube=http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=dNtvm2Kd6Vo&searchbar=0&iv_load_policy=3&ap=%2526fmt%3D18] Even though it’s not a speaking role, my friend Godfrey does a great job getting into character as the leper.\u00a0 Godfrey was one of my students at the local secondary school.\u00a0 He is also one of the most extraordinary individuals I know.\u00a0 After both of his parents and two of his siblings died of …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":1237,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[21,22,174,201,202,217,218,30,222,37,250,41,46,48,51,52,61,62,66,67,72,351,352,77,377,400,420,103,432,110,111,478,117,125,127,6,519,135,136,137,569,140,141,158],"class_list":["post-139","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-africa","tag-aids","tag-animism","tag-borehole","tag-born-again","tag-child-sacrifice","tag-child-soldier","tag-children","tag-christ","tag-dance","tag-development","tag-documentaries","tag-east-africa","tag-education","tag-epidemic","tag-filmmaking","tag-history","tag-hiv","tag-humanitarian","tag-hygiene","tag-jean-pierre-larroque","tag-jerrycan","tag-jesus","tag-kiwangala","tag-leper","tag-missionary","tag-nicodemus","tag-orphans","tag-passion-play","tag-public-health","tag-rakai","tag-samaritan","tag-sanitation","tag-sony-hvr-a1u","tag-technique","tag-technology","tag-the-revealed-truth","tag-trips","tag-uganda","tag-ugandan-government","tag-uncategorized","tag-us-government","tag-usaid","tag-youtube"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jplarroque.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jplarroque.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jplarroque.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jplarroque.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jplarroque.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=139"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jplarroque.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1238,"href":"https:\/\/jplarroque.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139\/revisions\/1238"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jplarroque.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1237"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jplarroque.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=139"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jplarroque.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=139"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jplarroque.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=139"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"http:\/\/lh5.ggpht.com\/_1TlEAO6LHJc\/TBhEy8VlxxI\/AAAAAAAAA7I\/ntdtNrDb348\/s400\/Subtitles%20Part%20IIb%20Jesus%20and%20Nicademus.jpg\")
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<\/a>Christianity is relatively new to Uganda<\/a>.\u00a0 One young woman, who was working on The Revealed Truth,<\/strong> became Born Again when she was a teenager.\u00a0 When her animist practicing parents found out, they chased her out of the house and disowned her.\u00a0 Nowadays, almost all Ugandans identify themselves as being Christian or Muslim and publicly denounce the traditional tribal religions.\u00a0 However animism is still practiced beneath the surface.\u00a0 Someone who is sick may go to the health clinic during the day, pray for a miracle in church in the evening, and secretly visit the witchdoctor in the middle of the night.\u00a0 There are regular reports of child sacrifice<\/a>.<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"http:\/\/lh3.ggpht.com\/_1TlEAO6LHJc\/TBhEzRuRrwI\/AAAAAAAAA7M\/cR7d4MWE8Pk\/s320\/Subtitles%20Part%20IIb%20Woman%20at%20the%20well.jpg\")
<\/a>Finally, I’d like to have a look at the woman pumping water from the well.\u00a0 This is a little b-roll that I shot to introduce the Good Samaritan scene.\u00a0 This is actually where I collected my drinking water during the dry season when the rainwater tank down the street was empty.\u00a0 I’d carry two 40 liter jerrycans one and a half miles from this borehole to my house. It was easier to carry two rather than one because two gives you balance, plus it’s a good workout.\u00a0 Eventually I found a man who delivered water to me for 13 cents a jerrycan.\u00a0 He told me that he makes more money that way than he did as a teacher.\u00a0 The majority of the population doesn’t have indoor plumbing<\/a> and so the village waterhole becomes the center of social life.\u00a0 Water’s fetched mostly by women and children who carry it back home on their heads.\u00a0 The lady you see here wearing a traditional gomezi dress comes for water at least once day.\u00a0 Nothing has changed in the 2000 years between her and the Samaritan woman except that the hollowed out gourd has become a plastic jerrycan.<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"http:\/\/lh5.ggpht.com\/_1TlEAO6LHJc\/TBhElRNPlAI\/AAAAAAAAA68\/4jEnOTV_rpQ\/s144\/Subtitles%20Part%20IIa%20Microphone%20and%20Jesus%202.jpg\")
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\nThe previous post was The Revealed Truth Part 2: Cross Culture Shock<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"