# The Gospel of John (Hughes)

**URL:** <https://tw.forumosa.com/t/the-gospel-of-john-hughes/166988>\
**Category:** Religion & Spirituality\
**Tags:** film, philosophy\
**Created:** [February 4, 2018, 1:39am UTC](https://tw.forumosa.com/t/the-gospel-of-john-hughes/166988 "2018-02-04T01:39:21Z")\
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**Post date:** [February 4, 2018, 1:39am UTC](https://tw.forumosa.com/t/the-gospel-of-john-hughes/166988/1 "2018-02-04T01:39:21Z")

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I never thought of _The Breakfast Club_ as being about the conflict between reason and passion.

> **[Opinion | Can We Learn to Believe in God? (Published 2018)](https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/08/opinion/belief-aspirational-faith.html)**
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> And what does “The Breakfast Club” have to do with it?

It starts with an analysis of Pascal’s wager, leading to this interpretation of the film:

> If you set out to acquire beliefs without learning, you are cheating: gaining epistemic ground without doing epistemic work. By contrast, in the cases of aspirational faith, coming to believe that, e.g., we will still be friends on Monday, is part and parcel of a bigger project of learning to become a different kind of person. The project is intellectual, involving a change in beliefs, but it is not _only_ intellectual — and its intellectual character is inseparable from its affective and motivational character.

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**Author:** ![Rocket](https://forumosa-12829.kxcdn.com/user_avatar/tw.forumosa.com/rocket/32/160144_2.png) [@Rocket](https://tw.forumosa.com/u/Rocket)\
**Post date:** [February 4, 2018, 1:54am UTC](https://tw.forumosa.com/t/the-gospel-of-john-hughes/166988/2 "2018-02-04T01:54:35Z")

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[https://youtu.be/qlllvd\_AMDw](https://youtu.be/qlllvd_AMDw)