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To: mrustow
Frankie: Oh, it's the same old, "one God-three God" thing.

Father Horvak: Frankie, most people figure out by kindergarten that it's about faith.

Frankie: Is it sort of like snap, crackle, and pop, all rolled into one big box?

Gotta love those straw man debates in movies. Ever see a shamrock, Clint? Next St. Patrick's day, ponder how he explained the Trinity to the Irish.

32 posted on 02/18/2005 2:14:00 PM PST by Question_Assumptions
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To: Question_Assumptions
Gotta love those straw man debates in movies. Ever see a shamrock, Clint? Next St. Patrick's day, ponder how he explained the Trinity to the Irish.

As you'd know if you'd seen the movie, Eastwood's character isn't asking this question with any sort of sincerity. He's yanking the priest's chain as he does, apparently, every day when he goes to mass. The priest is on to him, though, and doesn't put up with it.

The priest also tells Eastwood's character that the only people who show up for mass every day, as he does, are people who can't forgive themselves for something. We never learn what Eastwood's done in the past. It may be something to do with the daughter he writes to every week and who returns the letters unread. But Eastwood's character is clearly damned, if only by himself. I think that part of the reason he's able to do what he does at the end is that he feels his soul is already lost.

41 posted on 02/18/2005 2:56:03 PM PST by Heyworth
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To: Question_Assumptions
Frankie: Oh, it's the same old, "one God-three God" thing.

Father Horvak: Frankie, most people figure out by kindergarten that it's about faith.

Frankie: Is it sort of like snap, crackle, and pop, all rolled into one big box?

Gotta love those straw man debates in movies. Ever see a shamrock, Clint? Next St. Patrick's day, ponder how he explained the Trinity to the Irish.

I look forward to reading your more intelligent remarks, after you have seen the flick. Meanwhile, I question your assumptions.

77 posted on 02/18/2005 4:57:56 PM PST by mrustow ("And when Moses saw the golden calf, he shouted out to the heavens, 'Jesus, Mary, and Joseph!'")
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