Maybe? I do wonder how much of it isn't getting megachurches to just buy up whole theaters.

Come at the king, you best not miss.

Sometimes it feels that way, you have to admit. Either they want you to smoke less, or they want you to watch less porn.

Aw, and here I thought it would be the Disney adaptation of The Magician. I guess I'll have to wait for the villain song by the Man in the Grey Suit Who Eats People.

Which is funny, since blocking porn was part of the reason the Prime Minster gave for blocking Twitter. People who complain about liberal nanny states should look at Turkey to see what a conservative nanny state can get up to.

I could see Section 31 coming into existence as a loose working group made up of various specialists to counter certain threats, or at least, the perception of those threats, without necessarily being puppetmaster for the whole Federation. In a way, that's not too different from how Star Fleet generally works…. they…

Yeah, I wouldn't be surprised if that were the case, too.

AHS: Indian Burial Ground will be next then. Just you wait.

Can we only make a show longer? Could we use it to make GRRM end Game of Thrones?

Yeah, pretty much any priest/pastor in a non-conservative religion will have that sort of education. Apparently its a really difficult thing, both for them to learn it, often being completely in the dark beforehand, and then having to deal with parishioners that prefer a much simpler idea of what the Bible is.

I guess the response I have to that is, then why believe Christianity over any other religion? The reason they had to have miraculous stories (and don't kid yourself, they didn't stop with Jesus, there are a ton of Martyrs and Saints that did miracles too, even unto the current day in some sects), is you need…

Yeah, I had much the same experience at 15-16. I honestly think one of the reasons we have so many 'unchurched' people these days is because parents of the generation before mine were more willing to let their kids explore, rather than force them to believe. My sister's kids are all agnostics, because they didn't…

Ah, you were right, I mistook it for another 'c' fish. Its Cod. Apparently the Murray Cod can get pretty big (with the theory that they could get much bigger in more distant times). They do have Carp in Australia, but they're more recently introduced.

Yeah, the review and buzz from Drive made it sound a lot more inventive than it ended up being. But good cinematography and soundtrack don't always add up to a win (unless the soundtrack is by Queen).

Yeah, and all but the most recent religions are founded in Hellenic/Roman/etc Ancient times. God, for those people, is the alpha and omega of everything that happens and miracles occurred constantly. Just knowing about natural disasters, disease, the size of the universe and our place in it and in life on Earth has…

Because its a cop out. Jesus *does miracles*. Clearly its not all about faith, or everything in the Bible would be pretty bland stuff, wouldn't it? Moses didn't tell people to have faith and they would be free, he told them to do that *and* piled on an assload of flies, boils, and locusts.

Well, why not? Why shouldn't you ask for proof before making what the religion itself admits is the most important decision you'd ever make? People spend more time researching a new TV or blu ray player.

As far as movie Jesus's go, I was always fond of Jesus Christ Superstar. Loved Last Temptation the book, but never got into the movie.

Yeah, I'd did some reading on that stuff…. Q is still pretty controversial. Some scholars think its just as likely that the differences in Matthew and Luke are do to them making stuff up themselves as using another source. Interesting stuff… but man, did reading about it make me so angry. Sunday school tears up the…

True. Though I tend to temper my assessment of the 14th and 15th century art with the notion that a lot of it was supported by intense poverty and taxation. The various brothers of King John II of France spent as much on their art projects as they did on whole wars.