Re: Wish I'd thought of this one.

On Thu, 31 Mar 2011, Johne Cook wrote:
> I never paid much attention to the 'tar and feather' thing until I saw 
> it done as part of the John Adams miniseries starring Paul Giamatti. 
> Very unpleasant.

Never seen that, though I've heard good things.  (About the miniseries, 
that is, not the tarring-and-feathering.  *Definitely* not the 
tarring-and-feathering.)

Incidentally, I never really thought much about stoning people to death 
until I saw the film The Stoning of Soraya M., which depicts a woman being 
stoned to death in Iran at some length.  While the movie was made partly 
by westerners (specifically, Catholics -- in fact, the very same Catholics 
who produced and starred in The Passion of the Christ) to show what goes 
on in Muslim countries today, I couldn't help but cringe at the 
implications of this for all those passages in the Old Testament where 
stoning not only happens, but is supposedly commanded by God.

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