Word: godly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...mothers and fathers of America are anti-Potter for religious reasons. There is far less religion apparent in Potters adventures than there ever was in another acclaimed Narnia series, starting with The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe. C. S. Lewis' books were a thinly veiled Christian tract where God posed as a lion named Aslan...
That would be, for instance, Kevin Clarke, a mild-mannered carpet salesman from Mentor, Ohio, and a loyal Wal-Mart customer, who went ballistic after his son bought a CD by a band named Godsmack that he thought God-awful, particularly a ditty called Voodoo, which seemed to be about suicide. Wal-Mart has long had a policy of banning so-called stickered CDs, those carrying a warning label that the content might not be suitable for children. But Godsmack was stickerless, so Wal-Mart stocked it, until Clarke hollered...
...with us, well-meaning adults herded us into "rap sessions" on the off-chance that we might console ourselves. I spent a good part of my teenage years hoping only to outlive the awkward indignities of adolescence. I prayed for the day when I'd be older--and, please God, taller--so I might assume the full status of a human being endowed by my Creator with certain unalienable rights, not least among these was staying out past 11 and entering bars at will. I endured my teenage years by placing faith in the future, only to look back...
...religious and I don't have all the answers. But having questions, as the Jewish people say, is half the answer. The question is, are we human beings or not? Are we barbarians, or do we truly exist as human beings? What is a human being? Before blaming God, let's try to watch ourselves in the mirror...
...sorely test the shtetl's religious faith. Even as the shtetl is fleeing death, it runs straight into its own humanity. The most serious crisis in the movie occurs not when they are dealing with real Nazis or are otherwise close to disaster, but when they explicitly ask if God exists. Internal conflicts between the pseudo-Nazis, the newly converted Communists, and the older religious leaders result in one big mess that none of them can resolve, except perhaps the village fool. Indeed, it is the fool, named Shlomo, who poses the question of the movie: "The question...