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Life of Brian Banned
Topic Started: Jul 13 2013, 03:11 PM (556 Views)
Pasta
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OK only banned in a few cities in Germany on Good Friday. And of course by Glasgow for 30 years. Some wanted more than 30 years but moderate clerics who didn't agree with the ban were known to have said "Heck. The bloody conservatives will be dead in ten years, God willing, so f@@k 'em. 30 years max."

From BBC: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/blogs-news-from-elsewhere-23227452

Article below.

What caught my eye (the good one) was the notion that some thought the film blasphemous.

And what is wrong with that you may ask? Exactly. Religion tends to get rooted in self preservation just as quickly as government bureaucrats get rooted in their job security.

Without criticism - including parody - religion becomes static, out dated and useless. It no longer fulfills any productive function in an evolving society.

Therefore, in my view, blasphemy should be encouraged and rewarded.

We need to update these thousands of year old books. We also need to become more united in protecting all of us from the ultra conservative religious nuts who have, in my view, no concept of the reasons for the origins of their various religions. Getting tired of their vitriol and threats.


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Publicly screening Monty Python's Life of Brian on Good Friday is an offence in parts of Germany, it's emerged.

The religious satire is on a list of "inappropriate" films which must not be screened in the western state of North Rhine-Westphalia that day, the regional daily WAZ reports. It says an activist group, Free of Religion in the Ruhr Region, faces a 1,000 euro (£860) fine for showing the film in the city of Bochum. A city spokeswoman defended the decision to start proceedings. "We have to react in this way in order to comply with rules which we did not lay down ourselves," the paper quotes Barbara Gottschlich as saying.

But the initiative regards the ban as part of "outmoded clerical rules in German laws". Founder Joerg Schnueckel says on the secularist group's website: "Only fundamentalist clerical states force their citizens to submit to the rules of the dominant religion." The controversial film - deemed by some to be blasphemous - was refused a licence by 39 UK councils after its release in 1979. Glasgow retained its outright ban for 30 years.


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When I was growing up in staunchly Catholic Ireland this movie was banned and remained banned long after I moved to the UK. but I did have the soundtrack (on vinyl LP).

I must have listened to that recording a hundred times before I ever got the chance to see the actual movie and what a revelation it was... the bit that I was not prepared for was the aliens in the spaceship as there is no dialogue in that scene (all visual)... but I was pleasantly surprised by Sue Jones Davies nude scene... <clap>
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Interesting about the aliens. I have been watching the series "Ancient Aliens" on the History channel.

Some of it is a bit far fetched, but having said that it to me explains the history of religions much more plausibly than other. The whole notion that our god or gods were, in fact, physical beings from more advanced worlds makes a lot of sense and is supported by archeological evidence.

In contrast mainstream religions have almost zero support from any hard historical evidence respecting their primary tenets.

My family (the big one) was Catholic but I was mostly spared that as my grandmother was divorced. Some of my relatives are big time in the church. For them it is so political and defend the church at all costs.

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