Posted on 09/20/2018 5:07:30 PM PDT by marshmallow
A cathedral is pressing ahead with plans to show two “not for the faint-hearted” horror films and Monty Python’s Life of Brian on an inflatable big screen – despite opposition from some church wardens.
The Dean of Derby, The Very Reverend Dr Stephen Hance, said the decision to host the city’s QUAD cinema’s Fright Club and other films in the nave would not compromise the cathedral’s holiness.
Critics of the plans have claimed 1970s classics The Wicker Man and Don’t Look Now are inappropriate for a place-of-worship because of a graphic nude sex scene and themes of paganism.
Other films on the list for Derby Cathedral include Sister Act and The Greatest Showman.
But the cathedral is looking to go ahead with the plans, despite admitting some of them will not be “to everyone’s taste” and will “provoke comment and engagement”.
Dr Hance said: “We are looking forward to welcoming all those who want to enjoy these diverse special screenings and my hope is that it will encourage the people of Derby and Derbyshire to discover their cathedral.
“Not all the films will be to everyone’s taste and some of them will provoke comment and engagement with serious issues, which is to be encouraged.
“For example, as well being a great film and example of superb story-telling, The Wicker Man is the story of a Christian martyr.”
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Always look at the bright side of life
Is the Church a building or its people?
But what do they have to do with the church?
I’d like to hear what is misrepresented in “Life of Brian.” There is a scene of male frontal nudity, but, actually, it represents Christ well.
Life of Brian is superbly goofy, and a telling satire of every sort of trendy foolishness, that still works today. A very conservative movie really.
One of the early popes had naked boys jump out of giant cakes at fancy dinners. Google the worst popes.
>>, and a telling satire of every sort of trendy foolishness, that still works today. A very conservative movie really.
it just shows how much territory the Left has taken is all.
#Loretta
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