Thursday, February 23, 2006

God Bless Terry Gilliam And All Who Sail With Him

BBC NEWS | Entertainment | Battle-scarred Gilliam looks to future:

"'It's hard for me to worry about the studios losing money. I'm not very sympathetic to their money problems, because they certainly haven't been sympathetic to mine.

'When you look at one of their accounting sheets you realise you're never going to see a penny, so if someone wants to rip them off that's fine with me.

'If you're going to pirate, though, make sure the quality's good. Have some respect for what you're pirating!'"

Notes on the Founding Fathers and the Separation of Church and State

From Theology.edu

"Many well-meaning Christians argue that the United States was founded by Christian men on Christian principles. Although well-intentioned, such sentiment is unfounded. The men who lead the United States in its revolution against England, who wrote the Declaration of Independence and put together the Constitution were not Christians by any stretch of the imagination."
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"The United States is not, by any stretch of the imagination a Christian nation today, nor has it ever been, nor was it ever intended to be. The Religious right (or left) would do well to stop looking for the Kingdom of Heaven here on Earth."