Word: religion
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...decision to build the story around the fictional Weiss family was a carefully calculated one. "We felt it was dramatically important that the audience be able to recognize people whose religion is not a nationality, but whose nationality was a place of birth," says Green. "I wanted a real German family, the equivalent of American Jews who think of themselves first as Americans. We didn't want to do Fiddler on the Roof Jews, although they were prime victims of the Holocaust. We were afraid they would vitiate what we were trying to do-appeal to a broad audience...
...when everyone is noodling with death scenes. One reason the film lacks conviction is that the script is loaded with melodrama. Rosa is not simply a dear old party, she is made to be a survivor of Auschwitz, an agnos tic Jew who clings to the ceremonies of her religion in a basement shrine. Momo is not just an abandoned child; he is the son (as one of the film's stagier scenes reveals) of a psychotic pimp who murdered the child's prostitute mother. Momo and Rosa not only get a little help from their friends, they...
...naively claims "has almost disappeared and is now a narrow cleft." One wonders how Devore can make such a statement when the human evidence for his theories is simply nonexistent. The sociobiologists offer no evidence meeting the most basic requirements of an experimental design that such traits as xenophobia, religion, and social dominance are in any way coded in the genes of a human being...
...reminded of the observation that the attempt to have a religion that is no religion in particular is like trying to speak a language that is no language in particular. Polydoxy is warmed-over Deism...
Judaism is not only a religion but a way of life-a way of life that is hard to live because it makes you different from everyone surrounding you. The people submitting to polydoxy are admitting defeat. They are saying: "It's too hard to be Jewish, and we can't hack...