I think it was I who digressed and not you.

As Tiny Anakin would say, "May the force be with us, everyone!"

We don't want to scare off our new friends, do we? They've spent eons searching for us, finally found us, and we get all weird on them???.

Let's remember in whose sandbox we're playing here, folks. No more conflagrations.

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Charming boy. What a delightful boy!

rocket, I'm as serious as hell. No sarcasm here. When someone like Doug Spaulding treats Jesus like he's some American culture contemporary kid down the street, I have to edge him on and see what the blazes is he up to. You don't take Christ and make a taffy pull out of him,. You don't say Passion of the Christ is a danger to Christianity and then remain silent afterwards. I can go scriptural verse by verse, head to head, with Spaulding. Should I take your Religion 101 Forum topic as being sarcastic?

grasstains, yes we're playing in the sandbox of Harper/Collins Publishers. Bradbury wouldn't stand for any of this.

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Bradbury wouldn't stand for any of this.

Then stop, just stop. You are becoming problematic.

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"I don't know anything."

Phil, that Religion 101 post is not sarcasm, not totally sure what it is but I was not being sarcastic when I started it. Read further into it. As for Doug, I doubt very seriously that you are going to change anything he does or get him to elaborate on anything he does not wish to. I suggest that in the spirit of this board, you set back, relax, and dive in and have fun. We do all welcome you here and your point of view is important. What isn't welcome here is tirades against someone who doesn't answer a question the way that you see fit. Just let it go.

Phil Knox, isn't the term to "egg" a person on? Upon checking my Webster's II New Riverside Dictionary it states in regard to "egg," to urge or incite to action as in "Some onlookers egged the fighters on.

I've been stopping by occasionally, reading the posts, and ducking out. But I must duck back in and briefly make my say. I see the point Phil Knox is making. I'll have to side with him. I don't see him egging on anyone as biplane is saying and others. He's problematic because a few feathers got rustled, and no one likes a fuss. But I've had some issues with what Doug Spaulding has to say, exclusively about religion. Surprise, surprise, there are other Christian believers on this board amongst the mostly liberal media folk here. Bradbury gets along by trying to please everyone. Ultimately, I said ultimately, that's fatal.

Okay, first of all embroiderer, have you read Phil Knox's postings of late. They can only be catagorized as baiting in the least, and "egging" people on surely does apply here, flaming at the most in fact. I'm not the only one who can feel the seething anger rising from those postings. If your not getting the answers that you want, then let it go and move on. It has less to do with religion and more to do with common courtesy and decency.

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Nice to have at least one friend here. Oh, yes, the topic of this forum, dangerous films. Here's two from this year's Sundance Festival, headed up by Robert Redford: Hounddog, with a nothing left to the imagination in the rape scene of 12 yr old Dakota Fanning. The rapist gets away and the victim never discusses the rape. Interesting that Dakota's agent that first discovered her, described her family as Christian. The other film, Zoo, about sex with a man with a horse. The director, Robinson Devon, said he has been very bothered by people questioning his work. He said he thought freedom of expression in the arts was permissable. And film critic, Kenneth Turna, described the Zoo film as a strangely beautiful film.

There you go. What's next? Wake up everyone! Oh, yea, Pepsi and Delta airlines are some of the sponsors of Sundance.

Phil, I hope that you understand that I do not dislike you. Regarding that film, I heard talk at work that the scene in question was quite brutal. It must be a shock to go from Charlottes Web to that, or to see one then the other...

That critic name I posted is Kenneth Turan, for a correct spelling. Also, the agent that discovered Dakota Fanning that is mentioned in my above post, is Joy Pervis.

I have nothing against you, either, rocket. But I do with Doug Spaulding, who seems to be too slick for some of you out there, and who started this fracas by his reckless comments about Christianity. The thing is he is no dummy. He's educated in scripture. But liberal beyond sensible bounds.

Fair enough, Phil. I've said my peace and I'm backing into the shadows once more....

I see this post became a roller coaster.
Yes, I heard of the Sundance films. Everything is media changing...a lot for the worse. Freedom of expression has been thrown to the winds and without boundaries; the next generation will be mired in incredible confusion. Absolutes have already been widely dismissed in many western cultures. This would have been unheard of just a few decades ago.