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> If indeed his goal was to die, and do so within
> the logical structure of his religion, he would logically choose to carry out
> all seven deadly sins, as this would (according to his faith) guarantee his
> death. The argument against this -- his moralistic speech in the car toward
> the end of the film -- does not hold, as we cannot have any degree of
> certainty that he was not lying.
> ** An interesting application of this type of methodology is the Church of
> Euthanasia ("save the planet, kill yourself"). **
>
Is this another way of saying that he martyrized himself?
I thought that he made his own death the final statement in a long sermon about *our*
hypocrisy and *our* savagery.
The movie gave the impression that the city was an uncontrollable cauldron of rage and
senseless violence- that the "wolf" was not slaughtering lambs. but other wolves.
Doe's speech in the car was followed by an even more chilling speech by Pitt's character:
Paraphrase: "You think you're something? You're nothing. Your a movie of the week, not even
that, you're a t-shirt at best."
>
> (1). This may be the reason for the incompatibility of science and religion:
> while the former's premisses are and must be fluid, the latter's must be
> rigid (in order to preserve an orthodox faith).
I don't know about you, but I find science to be pretty rigid at times.
Is this the "We're better than them" meme?
-- Ken Pantheists http://www.geocities.com/Broadway/2446