jesus christ, superstar
i have recently made something like 5 separate attempts to watch The last Temptation of Christ, but it is the most uninteresting movie I can recall in years.
Holy cow, nothing interesting or exciting happens at all in this movie.
Perhaps this sheds some bad light on me by admitting this, but in the same time frame, I made several attempts to watch Snakes on a plane, but I actually got through the entirety of that 'film'.
That was the biggest piece of crap I've ever forced myself to watch. I don't know what I was thinking, and admitting that I haven't been able to force myself to watch the last temptation of Christ, but can force myself all the way through snakes on a plane seems like a sin somehow.
I made it through the Mel Gibson Christ movie, so maybe that will make up for it.
Speaking of religion, as a protestant, we don't really observe Lent.
Ann doesn't like this comment, as I made in front of family the other week, but the jist is this:
Ok, protestants observe Lent, and mention it several times in sermons during Lent, but 99% of protestants don't "give up" anything during Lent, like catholics are supposed to.
Catholics seem like the only group that really observe that aspect of it.
My friend Chad claims to be a big catholic. He went to catholic high school, and was married in catholic church, and will only go to a catholic church, even though he goes very infrequently.
Last friday I went into Misty's for lunch, and I had their killer blue cheese burger on the brain.
I ordered it, and Chad and the other workers gave me a hard time for eating meat on friday during Lent. I explained "I'm not a mindless zealot, I can choose to eat what I want, on any given day", and happily ordered my burger.
Many times when I eat lunch there, it's long after the lunch rush, and Chad will eat with me.
He came out with my burger, and another for him. We even discussed how good they were, and much we liked them. We also talked about our plans for that nite, since both our families were going bowling from 9pm to midnite.
So it wasn't until almost 10pm, when we were in the middle of bowling that it occurred to me that Chad, "super catholic", had a burger with me on friday in Lent!
So which of us is going to hell?
Holy cow, nothing interesting or exciting happens at all in this movie.
Perhaps this sheds some bad light on me by admitting this, but in the same time frame, I made several attempts to watch Snakes on a plane, but I actually got through the entirety of that 'film'.
That was the biggest piece of crap I've ever forced myself to watch. I don't know what I was thinking, and admitting that I haven't been able to force myself to watch the last temptation of Christ, but can force myself all the way through snakes on a plane seems like a sin somehow.
I made it through the Mel Gibson Christ movie, so maybe that will make up for it.
Speaking of religion, as a protestant, we don't really observe Lent.
Ann doesn't like this comment, as I made in front of family the other week, but the jist is this:
Ok, protestants observe Lent, and mention it several times in sermons during Lent, but 99% of protestants don't "give up" anything during Lent, like catholics are supposed to.
Catholics seem like the only group that really observe that aspect of it.
My friend Chad claims to be a big catholic. He went to catholic high school, and was married in catholic church, and will only go to a catholic church, even though he goes very infrequently.
Last friday I went into Misty's for lunch, and I had their killer blue cheese burger on the brain.
I ordered it, and Chad and the other workers gave me a hard time for eating meat on friday during Lent. I explained "I'm not a mindless zealot, I can choose to eat what I want, on any given day", and happily ordered my burger.
Many times when I eat lunch there, it's long after the lunch rush, and Chad will eat with me.
He came out with my burger, and another for him. We even discussed how good they were, and much we liked them. We also talked about our plans for that nite, since both our families were going bowling from 9pm to midnite.
So it wasn't until almost 10pm, when we were in the middle of bowling that it occurred to me that Chad, "super catholic", had a burger with me on friday in Lent!
So which of us is going to hell?
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I wrote a giant response and then realized it was more of a blog entry... So I cut it for my own benefit. Go read it.
Posted by: Catholic Boy | March 5, 2007 5:35 PM