Mirabile Dictu! An Actor Who Understands What He's Portraying!

[coriolan at worldnet.att.net]

As Viggo Mortensen preaches Peace, Siblinghood, and Other Things 
Bright and Beautiful, a different theme is invoked in this interview 
with John Rhys-Davies, Gimli in LOTR:


http://www.nationalreview.com/comment/beard200312170849.asp

The prophecy made by Rhys-Davies' father in 1955 was earlier issued 
by Hilaire Belloc in his 1938 book The Great Heresies:

"It has always seemed to me possible, and even probable, that there 
would be a resurrection of Islam and that our sons or our grandsons 
would see the renewal of that tremendous struggle between the 
Christian culture and what has been for more than a thousand years 
its greatest opponent....  The future always comes as a surprise but 
political wisdom consists in attempting at least some partial 
judgment of what that surprise may be.  And for my part I cannot but 
believe that a main unexpected thing of the future is the return of 
Islam.  Since religion is at the root of all political movements and 
changes and since we have here a very great religion physically 
paralysed but morally intensely alive, we are in the presence of an 
unstable equilibrium which cannot remain permanently unstable....

  - CMC  (be very afraid)