Bill Maher: Holy Ship! Trashes the Noah Story, and the notion of a psychotic mass murderer God

[telemann.livejournal.com]

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[primal-hunger.livejournal.com]

60% literalists? On the ark story!

It must be hard to be an optimist for democracy.

[telemann.livejournal.com]

Maher's citation is correct.

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2004/feb/16/20040216-113955-2061r/?page=all

[primal-hunger.livejournal.com]

“These are surprising and reassuring figures — a positive sign in a postmodern world that seemed bent on erasing faith from the public square in recent years,” said the Rev. Charles Nalls of Christ the King, a Catholic-Anglican church in the District.

LOL

[yes-justice.livejournal.com]

[telemann.livejournal.com]

Ugh.

[yes-justice.livejournal.com]

"Will no one rid me of this turbulent priest?"

[telemann.livejournal.com]

That rusty cross: "How recent is your Tetanus vaccination?"

[lafinjack.livejournal.com]

What monument is that?

[yes-justice.livejournal.com]

"It is best known, at least to me, as the site of the martyrdom of Thomas Becket and the millions of pilgrimages that followed (hence, The Canterbury Tales). A rather terrifying sculpture, combining the motifs of the cross and the sword, now hangs on the wall in the north-west transept where four knights stabbed Becket as he knelt in prayer."

http://asymptotically.blogspot.com/2010_06_01_archive.html

[lafinjack.livejournal.com]

Crazy, man, crazy.

[yes-justice.livejournal.com]

The soundtrack of Noah may be interesting.

http://exclaim.ca/News/clint_mansell_kronos_quartet_detail_their_noah_soundtrack_featuring_patti_smith

Other works by same artists (sans patti smith):





"Jesus died for someones sins but not mine"

[telemann.livejournal.com]

Thanks for that, but see, I'd thought they'd gone with Messiaen's Quartet for the End of Time.

[yes-justice.livejournal.com]

Wow.

[bikinisquad3000.livejournal.com]

Unless I'm mistaken the Kronos Quartet doesn't compose, though, just performs. Clint Mansell would be the composer in this case.

[yes-justice.livejournal.com]

I think Darren is having one on....I plan to view the film.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/03/11/darren-aronofsky-noah_n_4941318.html
http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2014/03/17/140317fa_fact_friend

[anfalicious.livejournal.com]

Russell Crowe in a period epic? I'll go see it. Well, I won't "go" and see it, just in case I can't keep my opinions to myself whilst watching it.

[telemann.livejournal.com]

In Florida, they can shoot people for talking too much during a movie.

Russell Crowe in a period epic?

Why not, considering how well he did with Gladiator

[enders-shadow.livejournal.com]

Are you not entertained?

[anfalicious.livejournal.com]

I most certainly was.

[enders-shadow.livejournal.com]

Don't mean to presume, but I seem to recall you're catholic. So just curios:

I assume you don't take the Noah story literally?
and
Do you take Jesus' Resurrection literally?

[fizzyland.livejournal.com]

They already made this movie, it was called 2012.

The Lord's Prophet.

[jom-art.livejournal.com]

consider amount of religious people on Earth, all his jokes kind of highlighting how bad it was and still is.

[brother-dour.livejournal.com]

Why do we even need a movie about Noah? I wanna see an epic Ramayana trilogy, dammit!

[telemann.livejournal.com]

NBC Nightly News had a report on it, (http://www.nbcnews.com/nightly-news/it-could-be-genesis-bible-themed-films-n42146) and Biblical epic movies are big cash makers, a built in audience. Studios can't resist producing them.

[brother-dour.livejournal.com]

If that's the case, I would think they would make more. Hollywood loooves their money

[telemann.livejournal.com]

There's going to be a a lot of them made in 2014.

[anfalicious.livejournal.com]

Bollywood has what you need (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ramayan_(2012_TV_series))