Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site pyuxd.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!gamma!pyuxww!pyuxd!rlr From: rlr@pyuxd.UUCP (Professor Wagstaff) Newsgroups: net.religion,net.flame Subject: Re: Re 'Cheeses'/ Life of Brian Message-ID: <642@pyuxd.UUCP> Date: Mon, 11-Mar-85 09:12:55 EST Article-I.D.: pyuxd.642 Posted: Mon Mar 11 09:12:55 1985 Date-Received: Tue, 12-Mar-85 09:07:09 EST References: <1014@decwrl.UUCP> Organization: Huxley College Lines: 21 Xref: watmath net.religion:5950 net.flame:8776 > I also saw the movie Life of Brian and here are a few comments about it. > Much of their religious 'humor' (not all!) is stupid silly and falls flat > on anyone with a small amount of knowledge of the religious beliefs involved. TRANSLATION: I just couldn't take it. It showed all sorts of emptyheaded flaws in my thinking, and thus it must have been stupid. > They HAVE no answer to the larger questions of life > to present (at least in the picture), only gallows (in this case literally) > humor!!! It was chilling to behold! Actually, they ASK the larger questions of life of those who don't want to hear the question. > (I am a great fan of Monty Python, by the way.) I can only assume that Arndt said this just to annoy us. (i.e., "Oh, my god, Arndy likes Python! I'd better change my tastes immediately...") -- Life is complex. It has real and imaginary parts. Rich Rosen ihnp4!pyuxd!rlr