Posted by turtle at user-2ive2r4.dialup.mindspring.com on December 23, 1999 at 10:42:05:
In Reply to: my response to your concerns posted by fainelli on December 23, 1999 at 02:04:53:
Kevin IS a practicing Catholic.
He doesn't hate the church, he worships in it. In Dogma he is simply expressing some of the difficulties he, and many, many others have had with some of the rules that people have created around religion. It's called criticism. And he's not criticising GOD or any of the other sacred ideas of your religion. He's criticising some of the arbitrary decisions that PEOPLE have made about HOW you should worship. Basically Kevin's trying to get across the idea that it's not so important whether or not you eat fish on Fridays (as the strict Catholics would insist), while it is important (to Kevin at least) to think about God. In other words, being spiritual is more important than being obsessed with petty rules. And he's not saying he's right. Not at all, he's just saying that this is his idea about how it might be. And he's saying that it's up to you to decided what you think. One of his main criticisms of the church is that they demand that you think the way they think, and if you don't you're evil and should be punished. Kevin is saying that it doesn't need to be this way.
Oh, and I do believe that you have much more warped idea of how the world works than Kevin does. Your relentless assault on a comedy filmmaker betrays the workings of a hateful mind. Your post isn't intelligent criticism-it's blunt-minded bigotry.
Heh.
-turtle
oh, yeah, and it's a COMEDY. If God doesn't have a sense of humor, than I most definitely don't want to go to heaven.