Restore Stephen Baldwin--this must be a hoax, right?

So I clicked on the video:



and then I went to the site.

There is a really simple explanation for why he's not doing so well financially. In 1995, he was in The Usual Suspects, which is an awesome movie. In 1996, he was in Bio-Dome. That movie was not awesome. It was at best a tolerable stoner-flick. That was before his life-changing experience that happened right after 9/11.

Hmm. He became a Born-Again in 2002. And a confirmed right-winger. And his career was already a little....dodgy.

This is like when rock bands realize they are sucky rock bands and become Christian rock bands to at least get an audience who will put up with their suckiness for charity's sake. The problem is, even if you get a pretty tolerant and loyal audience, you still have the same skill-set as before, but now you turn off the people who aren't into your religious-thing. People aren't hating on Stephen just because he's a Christian.

We didn't like him anyway, and then he blamed Christianity.

Take Mel Gibson. Mel Gibson is a Christian. He might even be a racist. But he's not broke. Why? Talent! He makes pretty good career decisions because he knows what he's doing. He still makes good movies, and made maybe the iconic Christian film of the 21st century--

Hollywood doesn't necessarily hate on Christians. And Stephen Baldwin isn't cursed by anything so much as under-achieving. Rumors has it he has a Hannah Montana tattoo because he wanted on Miley Cyrus' show. That's sad. So was XPAC, as seen at CPAC. And Christian/Skating.

For fuck's sake, "X" anything, extreme sports like Sk8ting and straight-edge with Christianity and oooh, some gaming? Is this 1996? Is he for real?

He's a grown man with a website asking for donations to pull his ass out of a career-spiral because he doesn't have faith he can do it with hard work and actually acting. Or getting some other job. I hate to sound momentarily conservative, but, should that behavior be rewarded?