666

Today is 6-6-06, BFD!

But Kudos to the marketers to the remake of the movie The Omen, for choosing today to release their remake of the classic move about the antichrist. They deserve credit for capitalizing on a coincidental date, that matches a symbolic bogey-man, from a book that many take as the word of God, to sell movie tickets. It’s great. But it does make me feel old to see they are re-making a movie that came out in my lifetime. Meanwhile, others agonize about how the movie version of The Da Vinci Code is blasphemous, dangerous, or whatever.

If only getting mad about a movie was as far as we allowed our irrational beliefs to take us. The book I’ve just started reading, The End of Faith, offers this interesting bit of perspective:

Imagine a world in which generations of of human beings come to believe that certain films were made by God or that specific software was coded by him. Imagine a future in which millions of our descendants murder each other over rival interpretations of Star Wars or Windows 98. Could anything – anything – be more ridiculous? And yet, this would be no more ridiculous than the world we are living in.

Anyway, believe what you like, but do me a favor and don’t kill me for not sharing them. And yes, that goes for you too beast.

with thanks to Chuq for the fun 666 link