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The Departed 2006
"when i was your age, they would say we can become cops or criminals. today, what i'm saying to you is this: when you're facing a loaded gun, what's the difference?"
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Casino 1995
there are tensions within american christianity that sort of inform the contradictions at the heart of it. at its core christianity is a religion of suffering. jesus repented for our sins on the cross, sacrifice as an ultimate rite of god purging the world of filth. over time the confessional emerged as a sociopolitical phenomenon created by the church and institutions of power to teach people that emotional catharsis was to be found in opening up: subjecting your innermost desires…