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From: mangoe@umcp-cs.UUCP (Charley Wingate)
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Subject: Re: Re 'Cheeses'/ Life of Brian
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Date: Thu, 14-Mar-85 19:37:10 EST
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In article <642@pyuxd.UUCP> rlr@pyuxd.UUCP (Professor Wagstaff) writes:

>> I also saw the movie Life of Brian and here are a few comments about it.
>> Much of their religious 'humor' (not all!) is stupid silly and falls flat
>> on anyone with a small amount of knowledge of the religious beliefs
>> involved.

>TRANSLATION:  I just couldn't take it.  It showed all sorts of emptyheaded
>flaws in my thinking, and thus it must have been stupid.

Oh, come off it, Rich.  That supposed translation is just what you would
like your intended victim to be saying.  I, too, same _Brian_, and while I
was mildly amused, I found it lacking on two counts:

(1) I don't particularly like the M.P. style of humor; and

(2) I've heard most of their jibes so many times before that I find them
    boring.

Rich, you seem to think that the arguments you bring against christianity
are new.  They're not.  Most of the things you've brought up were argued
against by Aquinas, and there are lots of responses to them through the
years.  I don't suppose you've bothered reading any of them, though.


Charley Wingate   umcp-cs!mangoe