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Studying modern entertainment at University level I came away knowing the best movies of the day reflected America's perceptions, values and emotions.

Dark heroes come along when things are not looking too good. The Godfather series were bad guys who America loved when the good guys were not so loveable. Dirty Harry captured a spirit as in "I don't give a rat's behind about corrupt systems, I catch bad guys". And that brings me to No Country for Old Men, dillusionment and evil.

No Country captures a certain kind of dillusionment which reflects a Ben Laden still at large. How can God allow pedophiles, serial killers and seemingly traitors roam the earth with freedom ? I suppose it's nothing knew as Billy the Kid was celebrated. The papers back east hungered for wild west stories and when the legend was larger than the truth, the legend was printed as the gospel.

There was a problem with me that in No Country for Old Men, a threat to the common man, was apparently carried out after the common man was gone. A very weird set of morals and values was displayed through that movie, a reflection of modern day perceptions ? But in the end the psyco immediately experienced bad karma taking a very innocent life. And vanity too was exposed as a noble but ego driven need.

Nobody knows da trouble God's seen caring for his Children.

Dear Professor Thistlethwaite

I wish you a Happy Holy Trinity Day! The Catholics as you know love to feast and fast at various times of the year and think up some excuse to do it. Today we use it to reflect on the mystery of the Trinity (for me best expressed in John 14-17).

Soja John Thaikattil
Sydney, Australia

Uh Mr. Rich we have a name in this country who believe that all people belonging to a given group are the same. The name is bigot.

Susan and I disagree about almost everything but we are both Christians.

Let me be blunt here: you don't get to "redefine" yourselves just by your say-so, those of us who don't belong to your movement have to define you by what we see and what we hear, and up to now what we've seen and what we've heard is a 30-year-long succession of right-wing Southerners and rural types damning the rest of us to hell for not accepting their political views, praising Republican political figures as though they were religious figures, and taking part in improper schemes to seize control of the government and take away the secular civil rights of the rest of us. So it's refreshing that a minority of you want to change that, but you haven't done it yet, so your "evangelical" tag for me continues to indicate a right-wing political movement, and I don't buy your contention that "high church" protestant denominations are "evangelical" because they don't seem to be a part of this movement. You can tell me you've decided to be a zebra, but if I still see a donkey then I call you a donkey...

Unfortunatly "Evangelical" in America = Pat Robertson or James Dobson.
Do Envangelicals in America care about poverty? Boy what a surprise!!! In Pittsburgh Pa, Evangelicals are social Darwinists

Unfortunatly "Evangelical" = Pat Robertson or James Dobson in America
Do Envangelicals in America care about poverty? Boy what a surprise!!! In Pittsburgh Pa, Evangelicals are social Darwinists

Sure does seem like there is going to be a lot of people being very surprised that God's Plan is, shall we say, inclusive.

It sure is a shame that so many people, of all persuasions, can't seem to get it thru their heads and into their hearts that God really does care about us.

Take care, be ready.

Sincerely, Thomas Paul Moses Baum.

Susan,

James Dobson was invited to sign the Manifesto and did not and I agree wholeheartedly that he didn't sign it.