Uh, my dad used to volunteer in Catholic showbiz, bless what I remember as his somewhat doubting heart. He was involved in a radio program production in Hollywood called Family Theater. Various stars would read the parts. I remember May Clarke (sp), Ann Blyth, and probably would remember others. That was around 1950, I think.
Ah's the black sheep.... well, the only sheep, as it happens.
Shocking! Christians in Hollywood way back then!
Doubt is the heart of true faith.
Back to the subject of the thread.
This irks me: The right wing thinks everyone in Hollywood is a heathen and a pinko. The truth is, the people that make up the grass roots the biz are just the same as anyone else in the US.
All the same beliefs, political opinions and economic situations exhist here as they do anywhere else.
And the big mouths on the right use the pulpit just the same (--no they use it more in my opinion) as the big mouth "movies stars" (a minority in the H-Wood community) use theirs.
Much of Hollywood is tech. Very much, actually.
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Fealola, wow that was exhaustive. But what about the English actor (?) who played Satan in TBN's movie (Omega?).
I guess a lot of the show biz people take virtually anything when their careers are in decline. A gig's a gig.
So much negativity . . . i do find that Christianity has one big plus for me . . . Sunday mornings after 7:00 a.m., and the new week's sale merchandise is stocked to ceiling at the local Kroger, and none of the Holy Rollers show up before 10:00 a.m. Thanks to Christianity, i can do my shopping in peace, and never worry about finding any item which i might desire . . .
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apparentailly, reality itself is a lie. i dont get it, how can valid evidence be dismissed as a lie fabricated by satan himself. why does religion have to force me to conform to its view of what is right.
well the reason, as far as i can see, is that they have the power to tell me what to do. we "heathans" for what ever reason we might be (not a protistant christain or of any related faith) need to take the power back. hey it has even been forseen by the biblical prophets. so why dont we make their prophecy a reality. lots of what they said would happen has happened, no matter how broad the claim may be. i want a socitial reform to rage against the machine. not litteraly, and only peacefully, but forcefully. you can think and do what you want(according to popular religious beliefs) but the rest of the minority may not.
basically the fact that i cant legally be me erks me the most. but no matter how much condemntaion i have to endure i must swallow it up and be the better man, no matter how flawed i may seem. i am subject to error just like the next man, but what one may percieve as error another may not and so on. why is it that i cannot make a choice that effects myself.
there are alot of things that i dont agree with but im not gonna tell you that you cant do it unless you start to harm someone else, or you lose controll over your own actions.
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"it is better to die on your feet than to live on your knees" mexican revolutionary movement against a suppressive goverment as quoted from zapata from rage against the machine a now retired polically motivated rock band.
Religion irks me for the way it screwed poor Job over. Here he is, a righteous man, who does to the tee what God tells him to do. At a whim God makes a bet with the devil and Job is the goat. The things that happen to Job should only happen to a mass murderer. Regardless, he says, "I am but a worm before thee" to God. He refuses to criticise God. Soon the ordeal ends and Job's life is "restored," so they say. But, all the people around him who were killed off in the name of the bet apparently stayed dead. The trauma must have followed at least some of the people around him to the grave. It makes about as much sense as killing a fig tree for the sin of having no fruit on its branches.
Yeah, God is a complete gobshite, really.
Very ill-tempered and childish, as well.
Robert Heinlein's brilliant satire, "Job: A Comedy of Justice," is his illuminating view of religion and the Bible.
that job story makes those christ like indivuduals feel like their god has more power than those false gods. to me the christian god is the false god, he is just to bitchey and such to be a good one. I dont know, but hey whatever,
bongstar, WELCOME to A2K.
cavfancier wrote:Doubt is the heart of true faith.
Where did you get this from?
Religion just irked me again. My boss told me we should pray in school, because the majority are Christians. I mentioned that our system was not set up for mob rule, which she of course payed no attention to. (Sure, I know we follow sheep rule the majority of the time, but I didn't want to mention that in this kind of conversation).
Just exactly what would praying in school accomplish? More than praying in church? Is this like SETI -- a larger radio telescope will be more likely to pick up messages from space so more people praying together will be more likely to reach God? Or is it to tranquilize the students?
I guess you gotta be a Christian to get the big picture, lw.
