Should we try to figure out your clever username?
How about a movie that illustrates the truth in every statement in this thread?
It could be called "How Soon We Forget" and it would do heart-rending dramatizations, each with enough character development to make us care about those involved, of every sickening, evil, violent plague visited upon the human race by religious idiots.
Do a bit about the crusades, the inquisition, the salem witch hunts, The enslavement and genocide of the native American peoples (justified by religious idiots' misreading of scripture), the enslavement and multiple subsequent attempts at genocide of African Americans (justified by religious idiots' CORRECT reading of scripture), the KKK, the holocaust (though the Nazi's religion was basically nationalism, it was a religion) and yes, the Oklahoma City Bombing (the patsy McVeigh, was a self-described atheist, but the main conspirators were identity Christians), the bombings of the IRA, the rise of the Taliban (under the fawning eyes and money supplied by Reagan and Bush Sr.) the creation of Al Qaeda (from that same seed money and the trained militia Reagan/Bush provided the Taliban) and their killing spree, and then there's catholic pedophile scandal, thought not as overtly violent, just as damaging.
But wait...there's more...even today! There is a religious element to the Russian/Ukrainian conflict, there's no mistaking the religious idiocy involved in the Israeli/Palestinian conflict, and can we try to dramatize the pain inflicted on the working people of the U.S. by the religion of Capitalism aka Money Worship?
The massacre at Beslan was a tragedy no one with a human heart will ever forget. I wouldn't OPPOSE a dramatization, but the documentary (did YOU see it?) was well-done and you can't really top the real voices and real tears of the real victims interviewed so soon after the attack. When TWO dramatic re-enactments of the Flight 93 story came out, it became a bit of "overkill", even leading some to speculate it was a cover-up and the real story was that Flight 93 was shot down by a Navy jet ala TWA Flight 800.
A dramatic film about Beslan will be less likely the more time passes. How soon we forget.
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