tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37589721331585843.post8928717427211838964..comments2024-03-26T11:33:59.219-06:00Comments on Religion in American History: USIH on Biblical EpicsPaul Harveyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13881964303772343114noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37589721331585843.post-90057584308288308792014-12-23T01:45:23.207-07:002014-12-23T01:45:23.207-07:00What do others think?
Regretfully, unlike RIAH, t...<i> What do others think?</i><br /><br />Regretfully, unlike RIAH, the USIH-blog limits access to its comments section so discussion takes place only between approved parameters.<br /><br />[Did you see what they did to Bill Fine? Heinous.]<br /><br />In reply, Mark, what I think is that<br /><br /><i>“Tri-Faith America” and the “Judeo-Christian tradition” that had been taken before World War II. Exodus, like Spartacus or Ben-Hur, was about renewing “Western Civilization” as a more “Southern Civ”</i><br /><br />has too damn many "scare quotes" to be comprehensible.<br /><br />The real debate should be whether Hollywood's "religious" movies matter atall.<br /><br />My vote is no, since they're theologically bullshit anyway.<br /><br />I liked "The Cardinal" with Tom Tryon though, where he explained to the Jewish guy Benny why the Catholic Church insisted that the kids be raised Catholic because it was the True Faith. I was only 8 or 10 when they showed it on TV but it sounded logical.<br /><br />I don't recall any other movie that made a Judeo/Christian doctrinal argument coherently, but maybe the scholars at the United States Intellectual History blog can come up with one.<br /><br />Good post, Mark, and it's a great mom who actually reads one's blogging! Cheers, Ma!Tom Van Dykehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07121072404143877596noreply@blogger.com