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Religions > Atheism |
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"Gregory Gadow" |
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25 Aug 2004 08:31:03 AM |
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God... the movie critic? |
From
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=570&ncid=753&e=10&u=/nm/20040824/sc_nm/italy_locusts_dc
Locusts Invade 'Passion of Christ' Town
Tue Aug 24, 1:30 PM ET Add Science - Reuters to My Yahoo!
ROME (Reuters) - It seemed like an invasion of Biblical proportions in
the Italian town of Matera, the outdoor setting for Mel Gibson's film
"The Passion of The Christ."
Millions of locusts swarmed into the ancient stone city, scaring
tourists off outdoor patios, and evoking some playful comparisons to Old
Testament plagues.
The town Gibson used to depict Christ's final hours was still shuddering
about the bugs on Tuesday, even though the worst seemed to be over.
"I'd never seen anything like it," said Rosalia Guira Longo, who runs
the Albergo Italia, where Gibson stayed while shooting the controversial
film.
"At night, the ground was carpeted by locusts ... they were huge," she
told Reuters.
Matera, in the southern Basilicata region, is a designated UNESCO (news
- web sites) World Heritage Site for its preserved ancient cave and
stone dwellings.
Locusts are not uncommon in southern Italy.
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Gregory Gadow
techbear@serv.net
http://www.serv.net/~techbear
"[W]e have never held that moral disapproval, without any other asserted
state interest, is a sufficient rationale under the Equal Protection
Clause to justify a law that discriminates among groups of persons."
- Sandra Day O`Conner, _Lawrence v Texas_
http://caselaw.lp.findlaw.com/scripts/getcase.pl?court=us&vol=000&invol=02-102
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| User: "johac" |
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| Title: Re: God... the movie critic? |
26 Aug 2004 01:36:20 AM |
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In article <412C9496.9B7B786E@serv.net>,
Gregory Gadow <techbear@serv.net> wrote:
From
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=570&ncid=753&e=10&u=/nm/200408
24/sc_nm/italy_locusts_dc
Locusts Invade 'Passion of Christ' Town
Tue Aug 24, 1:30 PM ET Add Science - Reuters to My Yahoo!
ROME (Reuters) - It seemed like an invasion of Biblical proportions in
the Italian town of Matera, the outdoor setting for Mel Gibson's film
"The Passion of The Christ."
Millions of locusts swarmed into the ancient stone city, scaring
tourists off outdoor patios, and evoking some playful comparisons to Old
Testament plagues.
The town Gibson used to depict Christ's final hours was still shuddering
about the bugs on Tuesday, even though the worst seemed to be over.
"I'd never seen anything like it," said Rosalia Guira Longo, who runs
the Albergo Italia, where Gibson stayed while shooting the controversial
film.
"At night, the ground was carpeted by locusts ... they were huge," she
told Reuters.
Matera, in the southern Basilicata region, is a designated UNESCO (news
- web sites) World Heritage Site for its preserved ancient cave and
stone dwellings.
Locusts are not uncommon in southern Italy.
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I guess that's a 'thumbs down'.
--
John Hachmann aa #1782
-The ability to change one's mind, ideas, and opinions when confronted with
new facts is the sign of the rational and intelligent. The inability to do
so is the hallmark of the dimwitted and the fanatic. This applies not only
to science and philosophy, but also to politics.-
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