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"Father, that was a great sermon. 

Made me weep."

~(Frankie)~

 

"What's confusing you this week?"

~(Priest)~

 

"Oh, it's the same old one-God-three-God thing."

~(Frankie)~

 

"Frankie, most people figure out by kindergarten it's about faith."

~(Priest)~

 

"Is it sort of like

Snap, Crackle, and Pop

all rolled up in one big box?"

~(Frankie)~

 

"You're standing outside my church comparing God to Rice Krispies? 

The only reason you come to Mass is to wind me up."

~(Priest)~

 

"I'm confused."

~(Frankie)~

 

"No, you aren't."

~(Priest)~

 

"Yes, I am."

~(Frankie)~

 

"Then here's your answer: 

There's one God. 

Anything else?  Because I'm busy."

~(Priest)~

 

"What about the Holy Ghost?"

~(Frankie)~

 

"He's an expression of God's love."

~(Priest)~

 

"And Jesus?"

~(Frankie)~

 

"Son of God.  Don't play stupid."

~(Priest)~

 

"What is he then?  Does that make him a demigod?"

~(Frankie)~

 

"There are no demigods, you fucking pagan!

You know what? 

Take a day off, don't come to Mass tomorrow."

~(Priest)~

 

Million Dollar Baby - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia: Million Dollar Baby is a 2004 sports drama film directed, co-produced, and scored by Clint Eastwood and starring Eastwood, Hilary Swank, and Morgan Freeman. It is the story of an under-appreciated boxing trainer, his elusive past, and his quest for atonement by helping an underdog amateur boxer (the film's title character) achieve her dream of becoming a professional. The film won four Academy Awards, including Best Picture.

Plot

Frankie is finally willing to arrange a title fight. He secures Maggie a $1 million match in Las Vegas, Nevada against the WBA women's welterweight champion, Billie "The Blue Bear", a German ex-prostitute who has a reputation as a dirty fighter. Overcoming a shaky start, Maggie begins to dominate the fight, but after a round has ended, Billie knocks her out with a sucker punch from behind. Before Frankie can pull the corner stool out of the way, Maggie lands hard on it, breaking her neck and leaving her a quadriplegic.

Frankie never leaves her side. He reads to her, urges her to go back to school and invites her to come live with him. As the days pass, however, Maggie develops bedsores and undergoes an amputation for an infected leg. She asks a favor of Frankie: to help her die while she can still remember the cheers she heard, saying she got what she most wanted out of life.

A horrified Frankie refuses, but seeks the advice of his priest, Father Horvak, whom he has tormented for 23 years. Horvak warns him that euthanasia is a grave sin, and that he will be lost forever if he goes through with it. Maggie bites her tongue repeatedly in an attempt to bleed to death, but the medical staff saves her life each time and takes measures to prevent further suicide attempts.

Frankie sneaks in one night. Just before administering a fatal injection of adrenaline, he finally tells Maggie the meaning of a nickname he gave her, Mo Chuisle (spelled incorrectly in the film as "mo cuishle"): Irish for "my darling, and my blood" (literally, "my pulse"). He then disappears for good.

 

***

 

Really did not much enjoy this movie overall.

However,

did find the relationship

between Frankie and his Priest

amusing
as their dialogue exchange fell right in line
with
thoughts already of mine as an amateur atheist philosopher.

***

My take on the trinity.

2 substantive and 1 unsubstantive
vs.
2 unsubstantive and 1 substantive

We are never the same person
from
the perspective of others
who's
 radars we happen to be on.

"Quality of a good leader
is
one able to disappoint his own people
at
a rate they can absorb."
~(Unknown)~


Had Jesus not been crucified and continued preaching his unsanctioned sermons,  over time, I'm sure he would have expanded on the interpretation of the trinity himself when believing his audience ready to be pushed into thinking in terms unconventional for their time when less worry of outright immediate  rejection.

Instead...
he overplayed his hand;
the trinity in his absence then becoming nothing more than your typical religious verbiage word game with centuries of one "thou artful dodger" academic after another piling it on trying to out do each other while still coming no closer in being clearer about it's meaning.

With the religious leaders of today
like
my former neighbor
nationally known pastoral consultant George Robert Gary, Sr. ThD,
and by no means am I limiting this accusation to leaders of  the Christian faith,
when learning this verbiage,
have nothing more than learned the manipulation of an illusion.

If you are to be a gentleman,
As I suppose you'll be,
You'll neither laugh nor smile,
For a tickling of the knee.
~(Unknown)~

I genuinely believe Jesus in his own "thou artful dodger" way was giving recognition to Joseph as his
father figure while representing the essence of his mother Mary through the Holy Ghost during a time when women had no voice in politics; not even much of a voice in determining their own fates from within their own families.

"Son's a son until he gets him a wife;
daughter's a daughter all her life."
~(Unknown)~

Once Joseph disappeared from the bible,
like the title to a car,
Jesus' mother Mary became Jesus' care and responsibility being firstborn son although Jesus himself still a child.

Hence...
-bastard man-son 12 y.o. through his crucifixion
-sum of his parents in his father's absence
-or put even another way fittingly appropriate with today's blog entry...
his
"mo chuisle."

Again, my take on the trinity.

That's why I loved this dialogue confrontation between the character played by Clint Eastwood and the Priest. It started chains of events in my brain I now understand to be what is called "mind racing." 
Supposedly a psychosis...?

Now,
back to the movie
"Million Dollar Baby."

Considering Clint's a God Damn Republican...
I'm surprised he directed this movie as well as acted in the role of a leading character who, at least toward the end of the movie,  came across looking more like
a 
LIBERAL
on issue certainly to be offending primarily those of his own party.

Maybe he's really
a
R.I.N.O.?

Will have to look into him more.

Pretty much all I know about Clint Eastwood politically
is
that he made an ass of himself with his speech at the Republican Convention
nominating
McCain and Palin.

Maybe not as bad a Republican as Charlson Heston,

although shown here kissing
a
LIBERAL,
definitely not a R.I.N.O..

You would think,
if these two actors had any integrity,
they wouldn't accept roles that send conflicting messages.