> **"\[...\] fathers often deploy their sons as religious mercenaries. And this is how the father barters his way into heaven -- by teaching the son how to harvest a soul."** Writer and director Jethro Waters' **GUNFIGHTER PARADISE** functions as scathing visual essay on America's shambolic obsession with religion and guns -- with fathers and sons superstitiously stumbling through their God-abandoned universe. Or North Carolina. The film begins with a characteristically acerbic and telling quote from Mark Twain: ***“Man is the only Religious Animal. He is the only animal that has the …
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