This film, more than any other single factor, affected my way of thinking about Life, Religion, and everything. The message of Inherit the Wind is, if anything, even more relevant in the new millennium as the forces of legislated morality strive ever harder to write their particular mythology into the legal fabric of our country.
It is sad that these self-righteous, pious individuals fail to recognize that the only reason their own religions are allowed to exist is because of the very freedoms that allowed Bertram Cates to speak his mind in this superb rendering of a classic play. As Henry Drummond says when talking about suppression of speech and thought by one ideology toward another, "...if you can do one, then you can do the other." Truth is, and shall always be, in the eye of the beholder. You cannot and should not attempt to cram your Truth down the throat of another.
It is sad that these self-righteous, pious individuals fail to recognize that the only reason their own religions are allowed to exist is because of the very freedoms that allowed Bertram Cates to speak his mind in this superb rendering of a classic play. As Henry Drummond says when talking about suppression of speech and thought by one ideology toward another, "...if you can do one, then you can do the other." Truth is, and shall always be, in the eye of the beholder. You cannot and should not attempt to cram your Truth down the throat of another.