This Talent Show Contestant Was Told She'd Never Be Successful Because She Doesn't Believe in God

[Judi Lynn]

Sep 24, 2015 @ 11:14 AM

This Talent Show Contestant Was Told She'd Never Be Successful Because She Doesn't Believe in God


So. Awkward.

In what can only be described as an incredibly cringe-inducing few minutes of television, three judges on Ecuador's Got Talent told a contestant that she'd probably never be successful in life because she didn't believe in God, BuzzFeed Español reports.

Immediately following 16-year-old Carolina Peña's audition, Maria Fernando Rios, one of the judges, inexplicably asked her if she believed in God. Peña replied that she didn't, to which Fernando Rios said, "Without the love of a deity, you'll never reach the top ... God can help you, he can make you better."



A second judge, Paola Farias, then asked Carolina, "Beautiful Carolina ... why don't you believe in God? It's a curiosity question for me, I'm not judging you." She then asked Carolina where she thought humans came from, and what happens before and after you die.

The third judge, Wendy Vera, then jumped into the fray as well, saying, "You're 16, and you've had many great things in your life, but there's going to be a time when you'll be suffering and the only thing that will help you is the amazing love of God."

http://www.cosmopolitan.com/entertainment/tv/news/a46703/carolina-pena-ecuadors-got-talent/

(Short article, no more at link.)

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[xfundy]

1. Brainwashed to brainwash others

"Jesus is gonna git you!"

[Judi Lynn]

3. You never can know how harsh religion's grip is until you get away from it. Unbelievable. n/t

[COLGATE4]

2. File under 'who cares about Ecuadorean talent shows'. nt

[Xipe Totec]

4. Way to miss the point.

This is about embedded religious discrimination. The venue is the least important aspect of it.

Remarking on the fact that it happened on an Ecuadorean talent show, and how little you care for them, is like criticizing a play because of the props.

If there's one thing people may care less about than Ecuadorean talent shows, is the opinion of a person who goes out of their way to let other's know how little he cares about Ecuadorean talent shows by posting about it.

[COLGATE4]

5. The only point is that the author of this trite little piece

seems not to recognize that Ecuador, like most of Latin America is a predominantly Catholic country. Expressions of religiosity, while not all that common in the US now are not at all uncommon there. The author is mightily striving to make a point where there is actually none to be made. It's not 'embedded discrimination' - just examples of harmless custom (except to the author) and which the author was unable to even recognize.

[Judi Lynn]

6. Feel free to post articles you find, and maybe you'll have less time to take pot shots

at posts someone else, like me, might decide to post in the Latin America forum.

Just POST THOSE ARTICLES, by golly. Time waits for no man.

[COLGATE4]

7. I actually have a life, so I don't have the time

(or the interest) to cull the press daily to see if there's anything that has a title suggesting it comes out of Latin America so it can be posted on DU.

[Judi Lynn]

8. But you do have time to lurk around waiting to attack articles when they are posted by someone else.

How does that work?

[COLGATE4]

9. Don't flatter yourself. nt