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Godless Godzilla and Godzilla at 50
pjones writes " Monster Zero reports that Toho has taken the God out of Godzilla leaving us with the affectionate if diminished name of 'Zilla.' But only the American Godzilla will become godless. 'Godzilla' is reserved for our suitmation favorite, while his rival, now called 'Zilla,' is the name for the computer generated star (?) of Godzilla 98. And yes we will see the two in mortal combat with 10 other monsters in Godzilla: Final Wars. In the meantime, Godzilla at 50 events are beginning world-wide. Leave it to Kansas to hold an academic conference, 'In the Footsteps of Godzilla'. In San Francisco, the plans are more gala where more films and more Godzilla involved personalities are part of the plans for GodzillaFest which will feature 20 films (not all feature Godzilla). Any other Gojira/Godzilla/Zilla events?"
May God(zilla) have mercy on that 1998 mockery that dared to claim the same name.
Oh by the by, I hope he eat Brodderick as well for the crime of being in that movie.
Atomic Flame Breath on!
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Godzilla has fallen.
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... took the Godzilla out of the World Series.
ANY religous practice handed down from generations ago teaches peace, compassion and civility, manners, morals and ethics toward fellow citizen
Your error is in attributing this to religion. It has nothing to do with religion and everything to do with the human tendancy to form communities. Religion does not shape human nature. Human nature shapes religion. A culture's religion tends to express the moral outlook of that culture, whatever it may be. Religions can be just as divisive and nasty as any other movement. It's just that the ones that are like that tend not to survive as long, because the ones that teach community-building tend to result in strong groups that can withstand attack.
I do agree that purging religion would be an attrocity, but not because religion itself has any worth to it. The forceful purging of any type of thought would be an attrocity because the methods necessary to do so would be, as you say, akin to Stalinist purges.
Don't label something "offtopic" unless you know the topic well enough to tell what's on topic.