The Monastery

So, did anyone watch "The Monastery" last night on The Learning Channel? I saw bits and pieces of it, but it didn't really hold my attention. (I watched some of the original BBC series - upon which this TLC program is based - while we were in England last year.)

Amy Welborn has a post about the series here. I found the following remarks from someone commenting over at Amy's somewhat interesting:

"I wish the program had spent more time addressing Jon's struggle with why God allows suffering, a question that many people wrestle with"

Well, the problem is that Jon has a pretty active hostility to the Church. Maybe if Jon were more receptive to discussing such matters, maybe if he was not yet another Catholic who blames the Church rather than himself for his lack of faith, it would have been addressed.

Jon and Alex, both Marines (once a Marine, always a Marine), are really in need of some drill instructor slamming their sorry a**es on the desert ground.

Sounds like a job for the Caveman.