Posted on 04/23/2008 10:36:19 PM PDT by Aussie Dasher
According to The Hollywood Reporter, film director Paul Verhoeven is soon to release a book that is claimed to be a new "biography" of Jesus Christ. In this new publication, Verhoeven feels that he successfully proves that Mary, the mother of Jesus Christ, was raped by a Roman soldier during the Jewish uprising in Galilee and the boy Jesus was the result of that attack. No virgin birth for Christ, but instead a rape.
Verhoeven is best known as the director of the films "Basic Instinct," the Arnold Schwarzenegger film "Total Recall," as well as the spectacular flop "Showgirls." The Dutch director reports that he's had a "lifelong ambition" to make a movie about Jesus and hopes this book will spur interest in his film ideas. Verhoeven spent 20 years writing the tome and this has led Catholic League President Bill Donohue to scoff at the claims as being overwrought and unproven even with 20 years of research. Donohue says they are "laughable" claims and wonders why 20 years of research only led to a claim that Christ is "probably" descended from a rapist.
Story Continues Below Ad ↓ "Here we go again with idle speculation grounded in absolutely nothing," Donohue told FOXNews.com. "He has no empirical evidence to support his claim, which is why they say 'may have.'"
"He's been working 20 years trying to sell this argument and hasn't come up with anything. This won't make a dent with Christians, nor with scholars somewhat wary of the biblical account. It's a European version of Hollywood. He should go back to Sharon Stone's legs."
Verhoeven has been known to haunt several conferences and seminars, one called The Jesus Seminar, that have been put on since the 1980's that call into question Jesus' divinity and the legitimacy of any miracles traditionally connected to him.
As Donohue told FoxNews:
"The Jesus Seminar was big in the '80s and somewhat in the '90s," Donohue said. "They have been very controversial in challenging the accepted biblical account of Jesus. The goal is to question the divinity of Christ -- to say he was nothing but a happy carpenter who worked at Lowe's or Home Depot."
But the claims that Jesus was the product of a Roman rapist is not new and have been around since the 1st or 2nd century. So, Verhoeven's claims are hardly new. In fact, this old-news aspect of this Jesus claim causes one to more easily accept the idea that the film world has run out of new ideas. And they aren't just looking to some other country or a 20-year-old TV show to do a re-make on, now they're reaching back centuries!
At least the third post today
I used to ALWAYS check but this new system doesn’t seem to allow that.
That's also more or less the same what the Nazis said. With the difference that it was a Germanic Roman officer in their version.
No problem. Yhe guy may be nuts, but he didn’t make this up. Google “Jesus Pantera” and you will find that it is a heresy as old as Christianity.
Just one spectacular flop? I thought these things came in threes.
Well, looks like after this one is history, he's only got one more to go.
Get ready for the Amish, Baptists, and Methodist to issue death threats and riot in the streets.
The heat from here above is probably the point.
The possibility of heat from below would probably be an unintended consequence.
Not unless he makes a cartoon strip about it.
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The anti Christian rhetoric is shocking but has been around for some time now -as fart back as when Jesus lived.
That should be as far back as he lived.
I think that we all need to pray that Paul gets saved!
I consider all three mega-flops, no matter how much they made in the long run. All of these movies you roll you eyes at and groan as walking out of the theater, if you were stupid enough to pay money to go see. Movies soo useless to art and humanity, it makes you actually question why humans are on the planet.
I’m sure every hollywood studio is involved in a biding war over who gets the rights to make the movie. And I smell a best picture nomination for Oscars and Cannes.
...Not suprising this stuff would come out after the visit of Pope B16.
Have non of y’all seen Flesh+Blood? Verhoeven made that in 1985, eecckk!
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