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The Curious Case of Benjamin Button

The Curious Case of Benjamin Button

“Time keeps on slipping, slipping, slipping into the future.” This is a popular line from a Steve Miller Band song, and I believe it adequately sums up the thesis of the movie The Curious Case of Benjamin Button.  The story of Benjamin Button begins and ends with a clock that ticks in reverse.   The final shot of the movie is one of this clock being over-taken with water.  Throughout the movie, the clock ticks and Benjamin’s life unfolds without…

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Religulous, point taken

Religulous, point taken

Bill Maher’s new movie Religulous has just come out. I have seen him on a number of TV promotional spots like the Daily Show. He challenges the simplistic unscientific beliefs that so many religious people fervently hold to. He is shocked that people believe in a literal flood, a very real Satan figure, or the theology of atonement that is said to give meaning to Jesus’ death on the cross. He frames the faith of these religious people as worse…

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