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

[pippin_999]

--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at yahoogroups.com, coriolan at w... 
wrote:
>> 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:>>

who said: 

"What is unconscionable is that too many of your fellow 
journalists do not understand how precarious Western 
civilization is and what a joy it is. ... From it, we get the sort of 
intellectual tolerance that allows me to propound something that 
may be completely alien to you around this table...."
 
http://www.nationalreview.com/comment/beard200312170849.a
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CMC:
>> The prophecy made by Rhys-Davies' father in 1955 was 
earlier issued  by Hilaire Belloc in his 1938 book The Great 
Heresies:
<snip> 
"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....  "<<


It's awfully tempting to project our present situation into the past. 
However,   for the most part of that thousand year struggle
that Belloc refers to, if you had wanted to champion "intellectual 
tolerance ", IMO,  you would have had to root for the Muslims. 
How ironic is that?

Pippin
who thinks there are enough causes for conflict in the present 
day without borrowing them from the past.