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...Goths.RR: What’s his role in the story?JVM: I have a brother named Chiron, and the two of us go and essentially rape Lavinia. We cut off her arms and we cut out her tongue. We are essentially the antagonists of the play.RR: Are there any evil villains who inspire you for this role?JVM: Not really.RR: What’s the most gruesome scene in the play?JVM: I guess the most gruesome scene will be actual the rape of Lavinia. I guess I’m not supposed to say what actually happens...
...Surely in trying to analyze the causes of human behavior we are unwise to ignore the spiritual? The Psalmist says to God, "I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made," and the Apostle Paul recognizes that "when I want to do good, evil is right there with me." It seems clear to me that it is by God's design that we human beings are like this. It is not just a matter of our "gray cells." David Caudery, Blackburn, Victoria...
...human nature. These questions should be equally explored from the perspective of the humanities. Reports like this subtly reinforce the idea that science is the best, if not the only, way of knowing. Even your cover picture implied that a question as mysterious as our capacity for good and evil could be answered with the reductionist idea that it's all in our brains...
...best part came in 1986, when Stinger missiles he supplied arrived to clear Soviet helicopters from the skies. Describing it as a "total high," he says he knew then it was only a matter of time before the Russians would leave. "Who would have thought the 'evil empire' would collapse and, most astonishingly, that it would collapse without a single drop of blood from an American soldier?" He also has no remorse over his devotion to the Afghan guerrillas, many of whom later became Islamic warriors and formed the Taliban. "We were fighting the evil empire. It would have been...
...antithesis to the über-Christian C.S. Lewis’s tales of Narnia, Pullman’s “His Dark Materials” trilogy is filled with veiled denunciations of religion (and Catholicism in particular). In the books, the very epitome of evil is the Magisterium, an organization that mirrors the Catholic Church in its hierarchy and dogmatism...