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“Prometheus” February 13 7PM Naropa Campus, Boulder

January 27, 2020 By Bob Kinsey

Prometheus, Maybe A God For Our Times?

The Rocky Mountain Peace and Justice Center in partnership with the Joanna Macy Center of Naropa University will present Ridley Scott’s science-fiction film “Prometheus” in the Sycamore building on the Naropa campus, February 13, 7 PM.

According to the late Roger Ebert, film critic, “Prometheus” is a magnificent science fiction film, “all the more intriguing because it raises questions about the origin of human life and doesn’t have the answers.”

Encyclopedia Britannica says that Prometheus, in Greek mythology, was one of the Titans, the supreme trickster, and a god of fire. His intellectual side was emphasized by the apparent meaning of his name, Forethinker. In common belief he developed into being a master craftsman, and in this connection he was associated with fire and the creation of mortals.

In this time of U.S. resumption of nuclear weapons production and countries threatening each other with the possibility of physical and/or economic violence, it seems to me that we need Prometheus, the Forethinker to help us find a creative way to true peace. The U.S. intends to manufacture up to 80 plutonium pits a year, the centerpiece of every nuclear weapon.

Another example of the threat of violence is the recent coming together of “Thousands of gun-rights activists — some brandishing their military-style rifles — crowding the streets surrounding Virginia’s Capitol building Monday to protest plans by the state’s Democratic leadership to pass gun-control legislation,” reflected firm resistance to reform.

On the other hand, on Wednesday, against this fierce resistance, the Virginia Senate approved legislation that would allow authorities to take guns away from people deemed dangerous to themselves or others, as the state moves closer to joining a growing number of states enacting so-called “red flag” gun laws.

And, the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons, ICAN, on 7 July 2017 – following a decade of advocacy by ICAN and its partners – a majority of the world’s nations adopted a landmark global agreement to ban nuclear weapons, known officially as the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons. It will enter into legal force once 50 nations have signed and ratified it, so far, 34 nations have both signed and ratified the Treaty.

Join us to watch the film and discuss its meanings for our times.

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Disarmament Quotes

Viewing Trinity Test July 16,1945: "Now we are all Sons of Bitches"

Kenneth BainbridgeDeputy Director Manhatten Project

“Everything I did at Kings Bay was a result of my faith and my commitment to challenge the idols whose only purpose is to destroy human life on an unimaginable scale. I went to Kings Bay to use my body to refuse to bow down to these idols. I went to try to bring attention to the idolatry that it is requiring of our nation and its people. I went in a spirit of prayer and repentance. I went in hope that this witness might invite other people to reflect on the obscenity and on the idolatry that it is before God.”

Liz McAlisterKings Bay Protestor 2019

"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending he sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children...This is not a way of life at all in any true sense. Under the cloud of war, it is humanity hanging on a cross of iron." --spoken to the American Society of Newspaper Editors 1953

Dwight EisenhowerUS President 1953-1961

We are prone to self-righteousness if we call ourselves peacemakers, and yet do not perceive how the peace issue cuts through all the economic and social issues that we often try to keep separate. If the race for nuclear arms is encouraged by our fear of losing the affluent ways of life that we have taken for granted, then we must see how our fears and desires have left so many other human beings naked and hungry.

Malsolm Warford"The Church's Role in a Nuclear Age

A world free of the threat of nuclear weapons is necessarily a world devoid of nuclear weapons…. Nuclear weapons pose an intolerable threat to humanity and our habitat…. Others subscribe to Churchill’s assertion ‘Peace is the sturdy child of terror.’ For me, such a peace is a wretched offspring, a peace that condemns us to live under a dark cloud of perpetual anxiety, a peace that codifies mankind’s most murderous instincts….The beast must be chained, its soul expunged, its lair laid waste.

General Lee ButlerFormer Commander, Strategic Air Command, April 28, 1996

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