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On another note, I'm surprised to hear about the NPR report. I've been an expat in Berlin since 2006, and Vergangenheitsbewältigung (="dealing with the past") is something every man, woman and child is extremely clued- into and sensitive about. Maybe there's a more acute awareness of that in Berlin itself, as opposed to other places in the former Western Germany, but still.. It sounds like a dubious conclusion to me. #berlin
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12/22/08
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It's a great way to see the movie. Highly recommended.
12/21/08
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It's a lovely story, truly, but I don't see how it has anything to do with angels.
12/21/08
It's the domestication of religion into something facile, mindless, and shallow that bothers me, and the modern happy-angel thing is a part of that.
12/21/08
Your final statement is dead-on accurate. Most of modern Christianity now is happy-clappy-whatever makes you feel good in nature. Follow those televangelists and the dudes that run the megachurches because THEY KNOW THE ANSWERS. You don't need to read it for yourself - someone else will do the tough part of that assignment and give you the Cliff Notes version.
They never stop to think... what if these guys have it wrong?
12/21/08
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12/21/08
My friends have noticed that I do have an uncanny ability to avoid certain situations and places that turn out to be dangerous/creepy. For instance, one summer I rented a house with a friend. It was a two-story house in the mountains outside a small town in Colorado and was up for sale, but the owner was willing to rent to us for several months. We were not from the area and knew nothing of the history of the place. After the first night I refused to set foot upstairs. Ever. Again. I chose to sleep on the floor in the living room on the first floor. A month later we found out that a couple who had owned the house 15 years before had been murdered in their sleep in the upstairs bedroom. The next two owners had not lived in the house more than 6 months before they put it up for sale. Our landlord was owner #3 and had owned the home for less than a year.
Did I have bad dreams? See ghosts? Blood on the walls? None of the above - just an overwhelming feeling that I didn't belong there.
12/21/08
12/21/08
My rambling is over I just wish like others have said, that those who are Athiests can stop being so condescending to those of us that believe[we are not stupid] & I wish those of faith who choose to push religion on people could leave them alone as well.
12/21/08
And I agree with what you said about angels and demons. It seems ridiculous to me too that so many commenters say they believe in angels but not demons. You sorta have to believe in both or neither, IMO.
12/21/08
Similarly, the Sarah Palin's and George Bush's of the world are less likely to take steps to stop global warming because they believe God's going to destroy the world anyway, so what's the point? And if you think Jesus' words about how "there will always be wars and rumors of wars" or how "the poor will always be with you" are the last words on those subjects, people who benefit from the suffering of others can hide behind the rationale that struggling to eradicate those things is futile. Never mind that we're also admonished to be good stewards of all our blessings (like the earth and its resources) and feed/clothe the poor and commanded not to kill.
12/22/08
12/22/08
I get sick of having people tell me I need to accept their illogical faith and can't think its stupid. Well I do.
As for your first statement about atheists actually being the ones comfortable with the unknown, absolutely! I never thought of it that way but to not have a faith or belief in something comes across to me as pretty damn comfortable.
I don't need anything to tell me why things happen if I don't know and can't come up with a logical explanation. I just leave it at that.
What happens after you die?
I don't know and quite frankly, don't really care either.
12/21/08