A Timely and Accurate Article: Brokeback Mountain (fwd to me from rublevpupil)

[arlie]

I dare suggest that the message herein needs to be conveyed to our fellow Christians from EVERY Orthodox pulpit!

For those who are not aware, the film being discussed herein has been nominated for eight Oscars...

Comments

[viggorlijah]

Isn't the far deeper and more significant problem not over genitals, but over the increasing devaluation of stable relationships and family? The heartache of Brokeback Mountain was that marriage based on love wasn't possible for these guys, and their attempts at marriage without love wrecked their family's lives

[suddenlullabye]

very well said.

[ioulios]

Excellent, yes! Thank you.

[robo_tom]

"Making sure it drums in its message in no uncertain terms, the film keeps switching back and forth between the two contrasts. The great outdoors, wild and free, close to nature, close to God, close to hot gay sex without any negative consequences. Back inside the dark little messy box of marriage, with horrible in-laws, demon spawn children, berating nagging wives, endless pressures and even the loveless, passionless sex has hanging over it the dread of producing more parasitic offspring"

such an astute point about propaganda... and of course nobody will listen that they're being brainwashed.... afterall, it's us backward hicks in the churches that are being brainwashed.

[robo_tom]

I know priests that advise that.... an OCA priest I know refers to TV as "the Brain Drain"

and anyone reading things like unseen warfare or the ladder, would know that watching TV is not adviseable...

I suppose typical American "Christian" leaders don't immediately shun TV is because of their willingness to use it for televangelical purposes... also their efforts to uproot the problem by using the instrument of the problem with shows as hopelessly sterile as 7th Heaven - an outright denial of the problems of the world...

now if Sarah Jessica Parker got herpes, aids, and date-raped on a regular basis, maybe Sex in the City would take on a more positive influence by showing the problems caused by promiscuity and lack of chastity... but then that's Planned Parenthood's "condom cue" because, obviously abstinence is not an option... and I suppose it's not, when their ideology is centered around the belief that sex=love, and that without sex it would be impossible to love anyone or express love to anyone.