by The Ace1983 » Mon Mar 27, 2006 4:43 pm
Dogma (loki's opening speach)
Nun: So you don't believe in God becuase of Alice In Wonderland?
Loki: No, through the looking glass. That poem. The Walrus and the Carpenter, that's an indictment of organised religion. The Walrus with his girth and good nature obviously represents Buddha, or with his tusks the Hindu Elephant-God, Lord Ganesha. Now that takes care of your eastern religions. Now the Carpenter, which is an obvious reference to Jesus Christ who was raised a carpenter's son, represents the western religions. Now in the poem, what do they do? What do they do? They doop all these oysters into following them and then preceed to shuck and devour the helpless creatures en mass. Now I don't know what that says to you, but to me it says tat following these faiths based on mythalogical figures insures the destruction of one's inner being. Organised religion destroys who we are by inhibiting our actions, by inhibiting our decisions out of fear of some... some intangible parent figure who shakes a finger at us from thousands of years ago and says: "Do it... Do it and I'll f.uck1n spank you!"
Nun: The way you put it... I never thought about it like that before... what have I been doing with my life?"
Loki: I know. Listen, my advice to you, is to take that money you've been collecting for your parish and you go get yourself a nice dress. y'know. Fix yourself up. Find some man. Find some woman. Find anyone who you can connect with even for a moment. Because that's all that life is sister, a series of moments. Why don't you seize yours.
Funny and inciteful. That's what Kevin Smith is all about. Brilliant.
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The Ace1983 on Mon Mar 27, 2006 5:25 pm, edited 1 time in total.