RE: Atheist-Friendly Movies
March 28, 2018 at 6:57 am
(This post was last modified: March 28, 2018 at 7:01 am by Fake Messiah.)
(March 27, 2018 at 1:01 pm)Shell B Wrote: The Keepers (2017) - We watched most of this. Still working on it.
Yeah "Keepers" is a long documentary and it is mostly about these few women that are doing the research on the murder that police mysteriously abandoned. As its so long at times it looks like it may even be part of their imagination, only in the last episode we see they are right. Like with the witness that as a girl was brought by the priest to see the dead nun in the woods (so that she sees "what happens to those that talk") and who was ridiculed later by the police after she claimed that maggots were crawling all over her - because according to them there were no maggots at that part of the year - it turns out that in the last episode they get the mortician's file and see that he did indeed filed maggots crawling over her.
(March 27, 2018 at 1:01 pm)Shell B Wrote: Inherit the Wind (1960) - haven't seen it.
Come on you have to see that one. There is also newer version with Jack Lemmon and George C Scott. But the first one is better, although if you haven't watched the 1st one newer version will also look very compelling.
"Inherit The Wind" was based on a famous play which reminds me of another movie based on a play The Crucible (1996) although some would argue it's using Salem which trials as allegory on McCarthyism that were happening when the play was written.
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"
