Comments on This Week on DVD

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Real hardcore God-botherers are against Christmas. It's a pagan festival of greed. Ian Paisley, the nuttiest right-wing kook Christian in the world, will tell you. It's these soft, worldly American poofters like Pat Robertson and Bill O'Reilly who've sold their God for commerce.

No, no, her naked frolic is just an artistic representation of her freedom from sin and a return to the innocence of being in God's grace. Her nakedness represents her having lost the dirty rags of atheist sin.

Adam and Eve weren't *really* naked in the Garden of Eden. (Just ask my 2nd grade art teacher.) Obviously, when the Bible says they were "naked", it just means that they were blissfully innocent without the trappings of morality.

And everything the Bible says (or means) is true.

I too oppose the use of primates in film, starting with homo sapiens sapiens.

Pardon, "other primates."

FAB-O article :-) Seriously, loved the piece and agree with your take on why Basquette was frolicking in the river (was not a normal Baptism :-) )

Saw Godless Girl in July at the San Francisco Silent Film Festival. I thought the 1200 person audience at the Castro Theatre was going to explode during the finale.