Posts Tagged: Social Issues


10
Jan 10

Dances with Smurfs

I’m not much of a movie goer (or watcher at home), but the hubbub over Avatar has given me pause.

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Any movie that can simultaneously be heavy handed, improbably primitive, cultish, racist, anti-American, anti-corporatist, anti-Christian, pro-environment, pro-nativist, and anti-Imperialism can’t be that bad.  I’ll probably wait until it is on basic cable or broadcast TV – it’s not like I haven’t seen this movie before.


13
Nov 09

WTFCatholicism?

What the hell is going on with the Catholic Church?

I have been seeing a ridiculous amount of Catholic-related news, starting with the local archdiocese announces they are closing my high school. I can remember the following exchange, at North Catholic, junior year, in Father DeMeo’s Psychology class, and how it illustrated the problem with absolute adherence to dogma:

“Children, if you use condoms and have premarital sex, you’re going to hell!”

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