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One Response to “And speaking of theological mayhem…”

1. John Knight Says:
   December 28th, 2007 at 12:50 pm

   wow. just……wow. armenians are badasses.

   *Somewhat* related (I tend to get curious during my christmas-time sabbatical from most of humanity and read into other theologies), I bought a really great movie recently, entitled Second Coming. It was written by Russell T. Davies and starred Christopher Eccleston (who some might know as the duo that successfully rebooted the Doctor Who franchise recently). It really gave me a fresh take on religions of the world and how our different theologies don’t always play nice, but really should.

   Essentially Ecclestons character, Baxter, suddenly realizes one day that he’s the second coming of God one night after pubcrawling and tells humanity that a third testament has to be written because the last two had overwhelmingly failed.

   What interested me about the movie was the background of those involved. Davies is very much an atheist but seems to have a sense of divine being more of the Hume type of atheism. That is, he doesn’t believe in a higher power through logical principals but acknowledges that miracles are possible. That really reflects in the writing and to sum up its effect on me, I have to say it really solidifies the skill that the British have when making good tele programs as opposed to america’s lifetime marathons.

   Regarding your previous post on the label of Mormons being labeled as a cult (I know I’ve sadly been told as such firsthand) I really believe it’s based on the fact that the vast majority of Christians don’t seem to know much about Mormonism or its principals. Rather, the principals that differ from other branches of Christianity.

   It’s like the digital divide theory with robots. The more they look and function as humans, the more we don’t trust them. 99% the same but something about the eyes gives away their digital roots? You’ll statistically have an inherent mistrust of that robot compared to your toaster.
   But is this really warranted? Mormons haven’t exactly come out explained many of their practices and when information does leak out of their practices that differentiate from mainstream christianity (catholocism, protestantism, etc), it’s always very much out of context. An example of this would be the act of baptizing the dead.

   Or I could be completely wrong and it could be the pick on the new kid syndrome….

   Or I could be wrong yet again and it might have something to do with Fundamentalists inherent mistrust of everything outside of the bible-belt….

   But what really comes to mind is some comedian I saw whose name escapes me, who said that poor black people and poor white people would actually have a hell of a good time together if they stopped bickering and racism and realized just how similar they really were (i.e. making their own koolaid, making cars work that should have been retired long ago, their bastardization of the american english language, their penchant for cheap alcohol, etc).

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