[MineralMan]

"One of the books I recommend to those looking for answers is The Screwtape Letters by CS Lewis. Offers an interesting perspective on what makes the world work, and the vagaries of human nature.

You don't have to be a believer to read it and it does not proselytize Christianity, or any religion for that matter, although Lewis was an Anglican Catholic convert."

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Thank you for your suggestion. I've read the entire works of C. S. Lewis over the years, as part of my study of world religions. He is an interesting writer and a good thinker about his faith.

Some, however, might just take the message from the Screwtape Letters and apply it directly to Mel Gibson and his film. Perhaps it's worth another read, if you haven't read it for some years.

[commish]

What? Your not going to go to the movie and then write some screeching savaging that proclaims it to be nothing but a 2 hour slasher film? You not going to go into an indepth pschoanalysis of Mel Gobson's preoccupation with torture? Your not going to go into some rabid rant about how we are all going to come out of the theater as venom dripping Jew haters?

What are you? Are you not an athiest? How dare you not rip this movie to shreds!!!!

OH wait, You are a conservative, that means you have a brain and the intelligence to use it. My bad. ;-)

PS : Hope you don't mind me using you to vent about all the hyperventilating loonies out there.

[Mamzelle]

re: CS Lewis

Anglican Catholic convert? He was Anglican, I thought...?

[Liz]

Mel's film features a key character who is the personification of that almost inaudible voice of deception whispering in our ear. (Mel refers to Lewis' book in his narration of how he went about making the film).

Just as an aside, in a newer revised version of STL (at Barnes and Noble) there's a notation inside about a country minister who remarked that after reading the book, he could have almost believed the devil wrote it. LOL. The genius of Lewis.