I've just come home after seeing the movie Constantine, which is about a war between Heaven and Hell, with God as a disinterested scorekeeper.
There are strict rules, and one is that if you commit suicide, you go to Hell, period. The movie's Hell that looks like Dore's illustrations of the Inferno.
Evil and Good aren't mentioned, really. Just rules--Christian rules.
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As for the nun in the movie, you are correct; and I have read that the Nazis listened to music to calm them while they were doing their "difficult work." They may have even felt--yes, I suppose they did feel--that they were eradicating evil.
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Having just returned home from the movie Constantine, in which a psychic man battles demons and watches the battle on earth between Heaven and Hell, I am feeling woefully unable to articulate anything coherent about the nature of evil.
(The bleakest part of the movie was the concept of God as disinterested scorekeeper. Evil and good aren't as relevant, or as black-and-white, as the list of rules--Christian rules. For example: if you commit suicide, you're off to Dante and Dore's Inferno Hell. Period.
Of course, there are loopholes, as we know. But suicide doesn't seem to have any.)
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Date: 2005-02-26 01:46 pm (UTC)a war between Heaven and Hell, with God as a disinterested scorekeeper.
There are strict rules, and one is that if you commit suicide, you go to Hell, period. The movie's Hell that looks like Dore's illustrations of the Inferno.
Evil and Good aren't mentioned, really. Just rules--Christian rules.
--
As for the nun in the movie, you are correct; and I have read that the Nazis listened to music to calm them while they were doing their "difficult work." They may have even felt--yes, I suppose they did feel--that they were eradicating evil.
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Having just returned home from the movie Constantine, in which a psychic man battles demons and watches the battle on earth between Heaven and Hell, I am feeling woefully unable to articulate anything coherent about the nature of evil.
(The bleakest part of the movie was the concept of God as disinterested scorekeeper. Evil and good aren't as relevant, or as black-and-white, as the list of rules--Christian rules. For example: if you commit suicide, you're off to Dante and Dore's Inferno Hell. Period.
Of course, there are loopholes, as we know. But suicide doesn't seem to have any.)