Just watched a rerun of THE NUN'S STORY. This is a wonderful movie that brings home a type of tyranny of religion.
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Feel free to reply to any comment by clicking the "Reply" button.Great film! Saw it when quite young. Always remembered how the nuns were taught to walk near walls to show humility. My family was traditionally Catholic, but thankfully THIS type of Catholic culture was not to be found either at home or the surprisingly progressive Parochial school I attended for eight years.
The-Krzyz
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July 14, 2019
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I was one in an audience to see an interview with the late, great Audrey Hepburn. What staggered me was the veneration she received from some nuns because of her role in THE NUN'S STORY. Yet, as you rightly opine, that movie depicted a horrendous, dictatorial existence for nuns. Although this movie was about Catholicism before Vatican II, authoritarian model of Catholicism remains. Thanks for reminding me of this powerful movie.
Doubting
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July 13, 2019
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Cults always scare me just like prEyer scared me but Santa Claus ishtar bunnies and virgins birthing alleged baby gawds in dirty donkey stables every December 25th was the final straw on my camel back age 5 and I shrugged my shoulders like Atlas
GreenAtheist
Level 8
July 12, 2019
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Dead bodies on a crucifix in a wedding mass was also a shock to my child brain age 5 my cousins married in white satin dresses and rice thrown at them by the pounds in their veils but I was on my knees fishing out shiny pennies from the rice for my penny gumball machine or jaw breakers too slow to melt sweet in my mouth
If you like that genre, you might like Aldous Huxley's book "The Devils of Loudun". There is a movie too, but it just does not cut it.
THHA
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July 12, 2019
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Thanks, I'll check it out.
Unfamiliar with that one. Was it on Netflix?
jeshuey
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July 12, 2019
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TCM Turner Classic Movies
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