MSB, what on earth does the first paragraph of your post mean? I must have lost my secret decoder ring or something!!
Well, I thought you raised interesting points in your Christianity post, and perhaps I'll still respond to them, although I am sort of hurrying now because there is a PBS special about the American Revolution about to start that looks fascinating. Our family is not swift enough to have even learned how to tape programs from the tv to the VCR, so I have to rush a little.
I would certainly never attempt to change anyone's religious beliefs--I think they are private, personal, and sacred. I am more interested in discussions of religion in the sense of churches as institutions, and the roles they play politically, both historically and in the present.
"To Gillian on her 37th Birthday" was well acted, but I thought a little hard to suspend disbelief. I thought the most intriguing thing about it was the honest way it dealt with inability to accept the reality of her death as being a mental illness, and the way it all affected the daughter. He loved his wife very much, and perhaps he did see her and talk to her, but it must be healthier to let go and say goodbye and just carry memories in your heart, acknowledging they are from the past. I have never lost anyone that close to me, and I cannot even imagine how much it must hurt, and how strange it must feel when the are here one day, and gone the next, forever (or until you reunite in heaven, depending on your religious views). |
