gdp's Comments

Big Hollywood : 'I Said Good Day!' Open Thread

Thu, 7 Jul 2011 13:48:03 +0000

Why did you chose this clip instead of the actual ending? See http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xLFo-idElMI

Big Peace : Moral Relativism and Fall: Solzhenitsyn’s Forgotten Warning to America

Wed, 1 Jun 2011 21:35:00 +0000

Well done. Would recommend to anyone to read "Life at the Bottom" by Theodore Dalrymple, which addresses this same issue as it applies in Britain.

Big Hollywood : A Christian Reponds to Bill Maher's Ignorant Bin Laden Rant

Sat, 14 May 2011 20:04:56 +0000

Just finished reading C.S. Lewis's "Perelandra" today. The character Ransom is deciding whether to undertake a difficult action: "[He] now could not help remembering, men were at war, [young men] who had but lately begun to shave, stood in horrible gaps or crawled forward in deadly darkness, awaking, like him, to the preposterous truth that all really depended on their actions, and far away in time Horatius stood on the bridge, and Constantine setlled in his mind whether he would or would not embrace the new religion, and Eve herself stood looking upon the forbidden fruit and Heaven of Heavens waited for her decision ... [all this, Ransom] could not help seeing. Thus, and not otherwise the world was made. Either something or nothing must depend on individual choices. And if something, who could set bounds to it? A stone may determine the course of a river.

Big Hollywood : This Week's 'Castle' Episode Misunderstood as Anti-Christian, Pro-Muslim

Thu, 3 Mar 2011 20:08:30 +0000

Perfect. As you said--Karnick missed the boat completely. This wasn't about being anti-Christian or pro-Muslim; it was extremely offensive to the men and women who serve or have served, and to those who have died to defend and protect the rest of us. My husband and I watched every new episode of Castle, including this one, but after their portrayal of those that have served in military, that will be the last episode.

Big Hollywood : CBS Names Palin-Supporting Character After Terrorist McVeigh

Tue, 1 Mar 2011 23:19:06 +0000

My husband and I are the same. We enjoyed the show, but now we're done with it. We both "unliked" Castle on Facebook. A woman had posted that she was offended by the show--her husband was killed in Afghanistan--and someone had the nerve to reply that it was "only a story" and that she was "over sensitive." ...