Always Look on the Bright Side of Life

Dolemite_the_Wiz writes "The BBC reports that Monty Python's 'Life of Brian' will be re-released, with the remaining Python troupe's full support, in US theaters next month. The Film's Distributor, Rainbow Film Company are marketing the film as an alternative to all the hype that Mel Gibson's film 'The Passion of the Christ' has generated. Trailers for the Film will begin running in theaters on Good Friday. Wait until Biggus Dickus hears about this!"

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What have the Americans done for us ?

[RLW]

if you must know the American economy is still the fastest growing major market, by far the largest, and from a purely investment stand point the best place to get good returns vs. risk. Otherwise, not much. Oh, the development of electricity. Don't forget the airplane and the automobile. Uh, and inventing the IC. Do'h, I forgot the high rise building. Oh and a whole host of personal rights, freedoms and privileges. Oh, the telephone, modems, ethernet and the internet. Well crap, the world would be stink hole with out the Americans.

Re:What have the Americans done for us ?

[RLW]

The rest of the world needs to understand that with out the American economy, the rest of the world's economies would be in the shitter. Everyone else's economy is stagnant or contracting or depends on the American economy.

We also take exception to being bombed. Granted things could have been handled with more grace, but we don't need a permission slip to take the fight to the terrorist. If the rest of the world does not like it that's their oppinion. They need us more than we need them.

Re:People called Roman, they go towards the house?

[straybullets]

I never really had a problem with Life of Brian

I have a problem with this kind of statement, it is the step just before intolerance. With this one special movie you don't have a problem but what with other works of arts ? What do you do if they clash with your proven and verified facts about Jesus ?

If something is based of faith alone then all kind of views on that thing can be expressed.

Oh, c'mon now, really.

[xilmaril]

I've never understood this.

you're a christian. a thinking one, even. congrats.

why should that make you, and every other thinking christian, hate a specific set of movies? or have a specific set of political views (republican, usually), or read only certain types of books (and i don't mean bible-wise. I mean no sci-fi, no historical documentaries not written specifically for christians, etc.)

there doesn't seem to be anything in the bible about a hive mind. so why do so many try to act like one?

Jesus had to die

[tickleboy2]

Because if He were God in the flesh, than Him being brutalized and executed loses of its prestige since He has "special power"

A lot of people think this. However Jesus came to save the world from our sins and therefore HAD to die. Since every one of us (religious and non-religious alike) are sinners, the penelty of sin is dead. Thus a sacrified of perfect blood had to be done in redeem us for our sins.

Jesus had the power to bring himself down from the cross, but he GAVE his life up out of love for you and me, so that we may all be saved.

Re:People called Roman, they go towards the house?

[mav[LAG]]

Oooh, very insightful. To quote Mr Miller of the Christian think tank, the Judeo-Christian faith is surprisingly ruthless in its insistence on proof (broadly considered), evidence, truth, examination, 'cordial skepticism'...and correspondingly disdainful of those who believe nonsense. Go here for a good list of examples.

As for the resurrection of Jesus, the burden of proof is not on those who believe it happened - it's on the sceptic.

• Jesus existed around 30AD as attested to by Jewish historians, Roman historians and the thousands of ancient copies of the New Testament documents that survive - most of them far older than other ancient documents that most people seem to take for granted (like Caesar's Gallic Wars)
  
• Archaeologists continue to show that the reliability of these documents when talking about historical events is unparalleled. 100-odd years ago there were all sorts of problems with the bible that have now been confirmed by modern archaeology - writers make reference to ancient towns that have now been discovered, Luke calls the Ephesian leaders by a strange name which has now been cross-referenced, and so on.
  

In short, to say Jesus didn't exist as a real historical figure who was executed during the Passover ceremony for blasphemy is exactly the kind of unscientific nonsense and blind faith that most often levelled against Christians.

Yeah yeah - but did he rise from the dead? I once tried really hard to find that he didn't - because then he wouldn't be who he said he was and he would have no claims upon me. But I couldn't:

• His tomb never became a shrine - a very natural thing to happen if he was still in it.
  
• No-one could produce the body. The Romans couldn't, the Jewish leaders couldn't, despite the fact that they could have at any time when the disciples suddenly turned up six weeks later and preached that he was alive. What was the problem? His tomb was walking distance from where these once frightened men were now claiming him to be alive. It would have been the easiest thing in the world to do. Not to mention:
  
• His followers were transformed - from frightened idiots to fearless evangelists. Nearly all of them were eventually executed for their beliefs. The church today - for all it's faults - still exists in the world based on their teaching.
  

Occam's razor leads to a scary conclusion. For me it did anyway - Jesus was who he said he was.

Re:Good idea !!!

[spiro_killglance]

The story of jesus is an object lesson on hubris.

Walking around claiming to be the son of god,
get you lynched, and quite rightly so. Oh god
why has thou forsaken me, is the key message from
the story. The growth of christianity afterwards
is a lession in memetics and politic.

Sorry xians i'm in a cyncial mode today. Jesus obvious had plenty of valid points in his philosophy otherwise the meme would just have died with him.