If you interpret the bible literally you are a young earth creationist and an idiot. The evidence for the universe being billions of years is not found in the bible and would not factor into a literal interpretation.

Thanks, I will check out the book.

Strange that he decided to continue pushing violence to force audiences to face it's reality after The Wild Bunch. As I understand it, that was his goal there as well. To take the western shootout and show the reality of what it would look like, with women and children and animals being slaughtered alongside the…

She was responding to an ex-lover. I'm not suggesting that an ex-lover has a right to rape. But the story clearly sets up that she is attracted to the masculinity of her ex, and that she finds something lacking in her relationship with David. The embrace is not of rape, but of sex. This is why the Peckinpah cut is so…

You may have seen a few scenes of the original edited version. The trauma she experiences at the end of the scene and in the church social immediately after is pretty unambiguous in the Peckinpah cut.

In what way would it be in one's rational self interest to have children? I could see this in an agrarian society that lacked access to modern medicine, but in the information age? Give me a break.

Rand was a trainwreck of a human being. My girlfriend and I decided to get drunk while watching Ayn Rand: In Her Own Words one night, and it was like watching the monologue of a psychopath.

David Hume refuted Rand about 150 years before she was born. Her solution to the is/ought problem was to just speak louder and longer. She took a lack of objective "value" and built a philosophy around objective standards. And yet there was no way to measure the truth of what she was saying on a social scale.

Her philosophy is childish, but the sex is so rapey.

They say love is blind. I don't think you're blind.