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Thread #154055   Message #3613330
Posted By: Jack Blandiver
28-Mar-14 - 07:18 AM
Thread Name: BS: Is there any merit to creationism?
Subject: RE: BS: Is there any merit to creationism?
I first read that as spaghetti western supper... that's my brain filling things in! I knew an RC priest once who was a total Spaghetti Western freak - all we ever talked about was the mythological themes of love & brotherhood in Leone's films. He had an especial fondness for Duck You Sucker (as he persisted in calling it!) which to him carried the same message of selfless-sacrifice that was integral to his faith. I watched it with him once & we were both in tears. But that was nothing compared to the end of The Good, the Bad and the Ugly. He told me 'Human love is the bullet that cuts Tuco's noose'. Couldn't really argue with that!

What worries me about Christians is that they think it's all unique to them and that non-belief is a negative. In their hearts they carry around hope of life ever-lasting - which is fine - but that it's predicated on damnation for the rest of us is kinda sad. Ironic really as the Star Stuff of which we're made is damn near everlasting relative to our own 'life' spans, which means we all share that anyway. We are stardust, we are golden, we are billion year old carbon, And we got to get ourselves back to the garden...