run for the hills religion time again!

[kronas]

a number of Imax cinemas in the US have refused to show a film which backs the theory of evolution and debunks religion.

the new york times has reported this film and its contest to religion as 'blasphemes'

also:

Carol Murray, spokeswoman for Fort Worth Museum of Science and History, said the museum's Imax cinema decided not to screen the Volcanoes movie after showing it to a sample audience.

this made me laugh:

In their written comments the audience made statements such as "I really hate it when the theory of evolution is presented as fact", and "I don't agree with their presentation of human existence".

source: BBC news

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertain...lm/4365999.stm

so we cant have both sides of the story then ? so why did pretty much every cinema show the passion of christ ? are people going to live in ignorance forever and not be shown both sides of an argument ?

[Halcyon]

Oh dear oh dear.
Some people really do take life too seriosly.
If they dont like it, they dont need to go. Simple as.

[Xaccers]

Pah the only good thing about PoC was that I could understand a lot of the aramaic

The thing is, America is a predominantly "christian" country (something like 7/10 actually believe the devil is red and has a pitch fork) so if a film backs what they're saying, then they'll love it.
If it doesn't, no matter how factually accurate it is, they'll condemn it.

I don't know many "christians" who would accept any evidence or out right proof that some of their "religious" beliefs are incorrect.

I've used quotation marks around "christians" as not to offend "christians" who consider other "christians" not to be "christians" and around "religious" because in most cases these beliefs are not based on religious scripts (such as the JW's books telling them the thermosphere is 3000F and able to support a shell of water around the earth which fell and caused the flood, before which there was no rain at all and the plants were watered by mist, although when questioned they were unable to explain what would stop the water boiling off into the vaccum of space...)

Who was it that said 'Ignorance is bliss....'

Just out of interest...

Originally Posted by Xaccers

(something like 7/10 actually believe the devil is red and has a pitch fork)