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a very Monty Christmas

April 20th, 2006 | 7 min read

By Keith E. Buhler

I just watched Monty Python's The Meaning of Life. As with all of Monty Python's humour, it is a hilarious, if you are into that brand of comedy, and this film is particularly inspired. It is a bawdy, irreverent, occasionally chaotic (and occasionallypsychotic) series of sketches attempting to tease out the meaning of life, or the lack thereof.

The hilarious end of the movie highlights, I think, an important feature of the worldview of the non-Christian. I would like to reproduce for you a bit of the narrative along with my commentary.

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