Believe?!
[Male Voice]
That cross you wear around your neck;
is it only a decoration, or are you a
true Christian believer?
[Female Voice]
Yes, I believe - truly
[Male Voice]
Then I want you to remove it at once!
- and never to wear it within this castle again!
Do you know how a falcon is trained my dear?
Her eyes are sown shut.
Blinded temporarily she suffers the whims of
her God patiently, until her will is
submerged and she learns to serve -
as your God taught and blinded you with
crosses.
[Female Voice]
You had me take off my cross because it
offended....
[Male Voice]
It offended no-one. No - it simply appears
to me to be discourteous to... to wear
the symbol of a deity long dead.
[Male Voice]
My ancestors tried to find it. And to open
the door that seperates us from our Creator.
[Female Voice]
But you need no doors to find God.
If you believe....
[Male Voice]
Believe?! If you believe you are gullible.
Can you look around this world and believe
in the goodness of a god who rules it?
Famine, Pestilence, War, Disease and Death!
They rule this world.
[Female Voice]
There is also love and life and hope.
[Male Voice]
Very little hope I assure you.
No. If a god of love and life ever did
exist... he is long since dead.
Someone... something rules in his place.
is it only a decoration, or are you a
true Christian believer?
[Female Voice]
Yes, I believe - truly
[Male Voice]
Then I want you to remove it at once!
- and never to wear it within this castle again!
Do you know how a falcon is trained my dear?
Her eyes are sown shut.
Blinded temporarily she suffers the whims of
her God patiently, until her will is
submerged and she learns to serve -
as your God taught and blinded you with
crosses.
[Female Voice]
You had me take off my cross because it
offended....
[Male Voice]
It offended no-one. No - it simply appears
to me to be discourteous to... to wear
the symbol of a deity long dead.
[Male Voice]
My ancestors tried to find it. And to open
the door that seperates us from our Creator.
[Female Voice]
But you need no doors to find God.
If you believe....
[Male Voice]
Believe?! If you believe you are gullible.
Can you look around this world and believe
in the goodness of a god who rules it?
Famine, Pestilence, War, Disease and Death!
They rule this world.
[Female Voice]
There is also love and life and hope.
[Male Voice]
Very little hope I assure you.
No. If a god of love and life ever did
exist... he is long since dead.
Someone... something rules in his place.
Theatre Of Tragedy - Dialog From "And When He Falleth" Lyrics
Album: Velvet Darkness They Fear (1996)
Not 100% sure but I think that this dialog is taken from a horror movie called "The Masque of the Red Death" from 1964 with Vincent Price.
Album: Velvet Darkness They Fear (1996)
Not 100% sure but I think that this dialog is taken from a horror movie called "The Masque of the Red Death" from 1964 with Vincent Price.
posted by Bloodmoon at 8:23 PM
4 Comments:
Hi Lu, how have you been? Nice post. Hasn't his been a classic conversation of our mankind.. Hope - Its call the quintessence of a human being. Without that we are either dead or very far from dead!
In this specific case I think they were discussing Hope as one of the Christian virtues and in that context I don't believe it either.
I see Hope as expectations or wishes, being hopeful about the future, in the end being an optimistic person (which I'm not lol).
I usually tend to see things from the pessimistic side only, sometimes forgetting the good ones... something I still need to work on myself as an individual. But hey I never said I was perfect. ;)
Hope has to come from the inside, from within you. That's what I believe in. And not that someone or something is watching over me...
Believe?
I once believed in so many things...I kept believing for so many years...and I don't want to believe anymore...so many dreams swept away!
I just need to believe in different things now because I'll always be a believer!
Can someone help me...I'm standing on my own ... where is the happiness I lost along the way??
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