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| 19 Dec 2015
| Mark Steyn
Posted on 12/20/2015 12:35:06 AM PST by Rummyfan
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To: schurmann
"Using your line of analysis, Tolkien's "Lord of the Rings" is anti-Christian."
"You said it, not me."
"But now that you mention it ..."
This back-and-forth illustrates - unwittingly perhaps - why so many less religiously inclined citizens lump Christians together with the Flat Earthers. Before we know it, mkjessup will be shaking his finger at the forum, warning (in the tones and cadences of the illiterate backwoods preacher) that eternal damnation and hellfire will be our lot, less'n we stop wastin' time readin' them durned novels, which surely be tools of the Divvil.
Welllll now, looks like my comments ended up causing you to get your panties all messed up in a big fecal mess did you?
Your own anti-Christian bigotry is a sad thing to witness, let's see
"illiterate backwoods preacher", "Christians and Flat Earthers", "tools of the 'Divvil'," you are the 'tool' no doubt, but not quite sharp enough for any demonic purposes.
Work on that.
SO very sorry if I rubbed your fur
(Warg fur of course) the wrong way, devoted LotR fan you surely must be.
Here, as the saying goes
'Lighten Up Francis' and relieve your premature exasperation with some lighter reading:
Oh yeah, and
Merry Christmas Smeagol! LOL
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posted on
12/21/2015 4:48:01 AM PST
by
mkjessup
(It's not 'Happy Kwanza' or 'Happy Holidays', it is MERRY CHRISTMAS!! CHRIST-MAS, get it?!?)
To: cvq3842
So why were the original films revised?
To: mkjessup
One of the funniest books I ever read.
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posted on
12/21/2015 6:00:56 AM PST
by
P.O.E.
(Pray for America)
To: MinorityRepublican
I believe George Lucas wanted to update the special effects, and also integrate the films into his planned nine-episode “megastory.” And references to the “prequels” were inserted into the first three films released.
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posted on
12/23/2015 4:34:48 AM PST
by
cvq3842
(Thanks for all responses, and flames, in advance.)
To: mkjessup
“...Your own anti-Christian bigotry is a sad thing to witness, let’s see “illiterate backwoods preacher”, “Christians and Flat Earthers”, “tools of the ‘Divvil’,” you are the ‘tool’ no doubt, but not quite sharp enough for any demonic purposes....”
My first impulse was to list the dozens of ways I thought of, to illustrate how little I care.
But then the irony of that approach hit me: I don’t care enough to bother.
If mkjessup can set aside her/his self-satisfaction and mulish indifference to anything outside his/her preoccupation with things spiritual/religious, I will post one bit of detail for the forum to consider:
J.R.R Tolkien was a person of profoundly Christian beliefs, sensibilities, and culture. He was a major influence on colleagues C.S. Lewis, who converted to Christianity and went on to become one of the most noted Christian apologists of the 20th century.
Set against that, mkjessup’s complaints about the lack of explicitly Christian detail in _The Lord of the Rings_ might be interpreted in a different light. At least a little.
That is, if any of the truly faithful can be bothered to shake off their smugness and look up the real story here.
To: schurmann
That is, if any of the truly faithful can be bothered to shake off their smugness and look up the real story here.
Smugness?
You've got the franchise on that Smeagol.
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posted on
12/23/2015 6:06:42 PM PST
by
mkjessup
(What will stink more as it burns in Hell? Hillary Clinton, or that pantsuit of hers?)
To: mkjessup
I remember a book about a decade ago about how Star Wars is a good introduction to Buddhism. The Dharma of Star Wars
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posted on
12/28/2015 7:46:14 AM PST
by
tbw2
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