Life of Brian Lesson
Several weeks ago I made a comment on a Facebook BBC post about the Life of Brian Monty Python film. See above. By the time all of the comments had ceased, it had over a hundred comments back and forth, some of them mine, most of them from others. From people from all over the English speaking world. Here is the back-story. Back in college, on Friday nights, there were free movies in the Student Memorial Center. One Friday Eve I sauntered into the Life of Brian and walked out about 10-15 minutes in. At the time, I thought that character "Brian" was just Jesus by a different name. The Monty Python gang, wink-wink, demurring it was about a fictional would-be reluctant Messiah named "Brian." I was Pre-Christian at the time but considered it unwise to mock God. Or at least not take any chances. I thought that the film was blasphemous. I didn't realize the clues at the film's opening scenes that gave away the identity of Brian not being Jesus. The clu