I got the HBO package when I got my new TV. They do have great documentaries but the repetative movies bore me sometimes. Then again I will often watch a movie on HBO that I would never have rented. Watching War of the Worlds made me happy because it was a crappy ass movie and I would have been pissed to have paid for a ticket or a rental! But last night I watched Kingdom of Heaven. It is a bloody detail of the Crusades at a time when the King of Jerusalem actually was sustaining peace there, with Christiaity and Muslim living side by side. It shows the deep seated and long lived need for the west to dominate that part of the world. From the beginning it has been the Christians who have been heavily into aggression, who have been unable to allow others to believe, to have their share. Orlando Bloom's character eventually surrenders Jerusalem to the Saracens for safe passage of those who wish to leave there. The King of England tries to enlist him in further Crusades but he has learned from his father, the Saracens and the other muslims he met there that the Kingdom of God is not Jerusalem, it is your own life and your house. It is in the creation of life and the respect of life.
I cannot believe that "GOD" wants all this bloodshed, if he does than I guess I am destined for hell because I cannot give my soul to a being that would want that for his "children". What is most likely is that man has bastardized the story of Christ and Mohammed over the years for their own gain and to justify the horror they have inflicted on others.
Today Bush and other US politicians rage "terrorism, save your country, patriotism". Since when is it patriotic to invade a country half-way around the world? If we stayed out of their business, I do believe they would stay out of ours. Canada doesn't get bothered....Switzerland? Netherlands get many terrorists?? There will always be certain conflicts in the world, but I am neither happy nor proud to be an American. I think I should be checking out what would be necessary to carry my nursing license into Canada...maybe Australia.
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Amen, people have been using religion as a crutch and as a tool of manipulation, perverting it for their own purposes rather than something pure and more spiritual. It's disgusting.
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