tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34344059.post5953418330318628790..comments2024-02-16T14:01:23.523-05:00Comments on THE B-MOVIE CATECHISM: THINGS TO COME: OH MY GODEegahInchttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13055947542189758831noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34344059.post-82004977776617598432009-10-13T08:32:16.179-04:002009-10-13T08:32:16.179-04:00You really should go see the film. It might open y...<i>You really should go see the film. It might open your eyes a bit.</i><br /><br />This reminds me a bit of a bumper sticker I saw the other day. I've seen plenty of them in some variation of "open your mind", but this was the first time I had seen, "sit down, shut up, open your mind." Well, points for honesty at least. Modern progressivist thinking has devolved to "agree with me or shut up!" for some time now. To wit: lots of pop-culture ephemera proposes to enlighten us rubes with Some Great Insight That Has Eluded Man For Ages--I'm waiting for the day it's offered on a box of my breakfast cereal. :)Scott W.http://romishgraffiti.wordpress.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34344059.post-71924017922187281852009-10-13T06:55:32.458-04:002009-10-13T06:55:32.458-04:00You really should go see the film. It might open y...You really should go see the film. It might open your eyes a bit.<br /><br />The filmmaker.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34344059.post-29605899033569182042009-10-12T17:31:28.456-04:002009-10-12T17:31:28.456-04:00Mmmm, sundaes... Keep handing out penances like th...Mmmm, sundaes... Keep handing out penances like that and I might have to reconsider that whole women's ordination thing :)<br /><br />As for the documentary, I can't help but feel that Scott and I are reading the filmmaker's intentions correctly, but it would be great if Rick's point about the "human compass" shines through regardless.EegahInchttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13055947542189758831noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34344059.post-48302825138901242432009-10-12T12:02:43.215-04:002009-10-12T12:02:43.215-04:00I’m sorry if I’m being a jerk, but how is 90 minut...I’m sorry if I’m being a jerk, but how is 90 minutes of subjective claptrap going to contribute anything of value to understanding how the idea of God shapes the world?<br /><br />Your penance for being a jerk: three Our Fathers, three Hail Marys, and an extra large hot fudge sundae. Oh, and make some Ghirardelli brownies for your wife, too.<br /><br />Xena CatolicaAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34344059.post-17688993666944905812009-10-12T11:37:29.976-04:002009-10-12T11:37:29.976-04:00It affirms that we are wired for God or as St. Aug...It affirms that we are wired for God or as St. Augustine puts it, "Our hearts are restless until they rest on Thee my Lord." Apparently, this movie articulates this internal compass in all human persons. The possibility of it turning around to hold that man conceived God may be self contradictory given the universality of the experience. Someone may conceive the superiority of the Arian race but that clearly is not universally expressed and hence not an internal sensation of truth.Rickhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04229134781669560505noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34344059.post-91627724449696766282009-10-12T10:54:21.787-04:002009-10-12T10:54:21.787-04:00All that being said, keep in mind this is just a t...<i>All that being said, keep in mind this is just a trailer.</i><br /><br />In the words of Karl Malden in <i>Patton</i>, "I can read a map." That is, even money says that if this isn't the St. Joseph children's aspirin version of <i>Religulous</i> (longer odds of that I'll grant), it will be the there-are-so-many-different-views-of-God-therefore-none-can-be-completely-true-so-let's-default-to-generalized-hamfisted-appeals-to-brotherly-love.<br /><br />Favorite quote: "As soon as somebody tells you who God is, mistrust them!" in which the only reason you are not face-palming at this dogmatic statement against dogmatism is that you are busy guffawing.<br /><br />Sorry to suger-coat it.Scott W.http://romishgraffiti.wordpress.com/noreply@blogger.com