Movie Rentals

We finally made it to the weekend. Micah and I have been getting into the habit lately of renting movies over the weekend. Whenever we get a movie we have to get one for the kids, so we don't have to push pause every five minutes, because they're fighting, talking, somebody's gotta go pee, "I need a drink," "she's in my way," blah blah blah. So, to cut costs, Micah decided to sign up for Netflix because it is cheaper than spending eight dollars, twice in a weekend, times four weekends in a month. And there's no late fees. We seem to have a problem with that one, especially when we rent a kid's movie, and they just want to watch it all week, and I get too busy and forget, and it gets moved around and mixed in with all of the other kid's movies. Yikes, what a mess. No late fees with Netflix, and you can download some of the movies online and watch them instantly. So last night, Micah downloaded a movie called Chocolat. I was actually very impressed. I would have given it a five star rating. It's a story about a lady and her daughter, who move into a town, but they don't go to church like everyone else in the town does. She opens up a chocolate shop and ends up helping a lot of people in the town. Then there is a group of boaters who come into town, and since they are different, the mayor, who is also in charge of the church, wants everyone to boycott them because they different. Defineately a good movie. It got me to thinking about our church and how they "boycott immorality" because gays are different from us. And everyone in the church does what the leader tells them to do. Very interesting similarities. Anyways, I will leave you with a thought I saw from Steven Weinberg because I feel it ties in very well with this movie: "Religion is an insult to human dignity. With or without it, you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, that takes religion."