Some belated thoughts on Creation.

[bagheera]

So... it took me a while to get to it, but perhaps for the better: Creation is not an easy film to comprehend on the first viewing, and a lot of its emotional subtleties came out only after several watches. The film got mixed ratings on RottenTomatoes and most critics who had issues with the film either thought it dispassionate, too much melodrama

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[bagheera]

Well America's always had a strong anglican presence, but while European nations became less and less religious over the past two centuries, America alarmingly became more religious.

I can kinda imagine an atheist politician being nominated for a post (probably not win the election though) in, say, Germany, or France; but in America you better have God on your lips to even be nominated for anything. xD It's funny, too, that the word "God" was not added to American money until the late 1800's/early 1900's, and I think "God" wasn't even added to the pledge of allegiance until the 1950's. England may have a state religion but at least they have Darwin's portrait on their 10 pound notes... :x

You are not required to say the word "under God" in the pledge, btw - there have been a lot of stories of kids getting in trouble for that (there was one kid in Minnesota I think, whose teacher had the school police remove her from the classroom for refusing to say it), but public schools do have guidelines that establish freedom from religion. Needless to say the teacher lost the court case heh.