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Nicole is hot, but if she is in a movie it's not a good sign. |
Posted on 12/14/2007 7:33:13 AM PST by Thorin
You might find this of interest.
The few I know who saw it didn’t think it was worth the ticket price.
If the receipts drop off more than 50%, the chances of the sequels being made are quite slim.
Atheists regularly write about the ravages of the Inquisition. Sure: It appears that the Inquisition over the centuries killed 5,000 people, which in my view is 5,000 too many. But Stalin and Mao killed not 5,000 or 50,000 or 500,000 or 5 million, but at least 50 million. Torturing and killing innocent people is a human phenomenon, not a religious one. There's plenty of sin to go around.
Keeping that Soviet and Chinese experience in mind, it's remarkable that Christopher Hitchens, author of "God Is Not Great," claims his fellow atheists "may differ on many things, but what we respect is free inquiry, openmindedness, and pursuit of ideas for their own sake." Who is "we"? Hitchens writes that atheists who disagree on a question "resolve it by evidence and reasoning and not by mutual excommunication." But the 20th century was a century of atheists resolving their disputes not by excommunication, but by murdering each other.
The Golden Compass might get smashed by the escapist twins “Alvin and the Chipmunks”, and “I am Legend”. I won’t be surprised if what you say comes to pass.
I’ve read Hitchens’ latest book and the Pullman trilogy. I just don’t get it. They are filled with hate and come across as otherwise intelligent people emotionally and even intellectually disabled by hatred. I just don’t see the attraction. I guess that only other such hate-fed disabled people who are desparately looking for enablers to justify their own hatred get the attraction. I sure don’t.
I always ponder over the fact that no other God or man has ever been more maligned, cursed, denounced, or disparaged than Christ, Jesus himself, and by turn, Christ’s Father.
Furthermore, it has always been of interest to me that the two groups of people that have been the most maligned and persecuted have been the Jews (from whom Jesus came and all the Holy writings that we have as Christians; yes, because we know that the early Gospel writers themselves were Jews as well), and, later, the Christians.
Considering how much time atheists spend on attacking a God they do not believe exists, I often wonder why they do not spend equal time attacking Santa Clause, Elves, Leprechauns, Fairies, Smurfs, Little Green Men, Jinn (Genies that the Muslims believe), and other characters that occupy the realm of what they believe is simply fantasy. Again, why so much vitriol, anger, and hatred. It cannot be because Christians are any more evil than others in this world. Many Christians have done evil, but no more so than other people. And for whatever it’s worth, I often have serious doubts about the faith of many committing evil that do call themselves Christians. I’ve heard many people refer to Hitler, for instance, as a Christian, when he absolutely was not and, in fact, was quite involved in the occult (big surprised there).
I also question why those of atheistic and agnostic believes have not spent as much effort and time on critiques of the many humanistic systems that have brought enormous evil to the world (including Communism, Socialism, and Fascism).
Thanks for the post. I know this is a little controversial right now. I have no bones about people writing books or making movies but it is interesting when one tries to peep beneath the surface.
By the way, Merry Christmas Thorin!
If you think about it, you’ll get it. In fact, I think you already do get it. It’s spiritual warfare.
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Nicole is hot, but if she is in a movie it's not a good sign. |
Unfortunately, Christians are writing these things about historical events too. I just finished reading one by a pastor of a very large evangelical megachurch. It’s bad enough when atheists come after the history—and the present—of the church, but now even evangelicals are turning on their own in greater numbers. It’s very disheartening.
Yes. I am NOT going to pay a dime to see this movie. Partly because it’s an attack on Christianity and the morality on which our civilization has been built, but partly because it’s an empty-headed propaganda film.
I like a movie in which the good guys battle the bad guys, even if the vision is confused, as it is in “Star Wars,” for instance. Or I like a movie that raises interesting questions about what is good and what is evil, and does so with great power, like Ingmar Bergman’s mesmerizing “Cries and Whispers”—a movie that is hateful in many ways, but too powerful to wish I had not seen.
But I don’t like empty, totally predictable, propaganda flicks. A movie where the climax comes when two armored polar bears duke it out, and you can’t tell the players without a scorecard? I don’t think so. A movie where the heroine’s father “saves the chilluns” by sacrificing actual children to a dark god, or to something called “dust”? I think not.
And all this so the kids can end the movie trilogy with good Hollywood sex without consequences or a feeble God to tell them no? Nah, I’d rather watch “Shampoo” or get the DVD of “The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe” and see it again.
And Merry Christmas to you, too!
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