I DETEST THIS FILM ..WITH A PASSION [Christopher Hitchens on the Passion of the Christ]

The Mirror ^ | February 27, 2004 | Christopher Hitchens

[mhking]

>If you like seeing handsome young men stripped and tied up and flayed with whips, The Passion Of The Christ is the movie for you.

Lord, forgive them. They know not what they say. They know not what they do.

Just damn.

If you want on the list, FReepmail me. This IS a high-volume PING list...

[ovrtaxt]

Ick, what a miserable individual he must be.

[Neets]

Sheesh,

It is starting to look like anyone who thinks they are someone have something to say about this movie.

I have no desire to hear what these no-bodies have to say.

[onyx]

Hahahahahaha. Mel stuck it to Hitchens --- made Hitchens sick. GOOD.

[leadpenny]

Oh, boy! Here we go!

[Just mythoughts]

What else would one of the other great faith, communism say.

[Qwinn]

Wow. And to think I used to think there was hope for Hitchens. Too bad, he's just sunk to the bottom of the pile.

Qwinn

[KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle]

If you like seeing handsome young men stripped and tied up and flayed with whips, The Passion Of The Christ is the movie for you.

That can't be right. Andrew Sullivan is already on the record as hating the film, as well. :)

[PaulJ]

I learned one thing, though. I didn't know they spoke Aramaic and Latin in Poland and Russia.

[leadpenny]

He is nobody's fool. He describes himself as a liberal who hates the Clintons.

Now, I'll read what he has to say.

[InvisibleChurch]

movies like Kill Bill, Fight Club etal are praised for their 'poetic' use of violence... now comes a toned down version of the most significant event in human history and it's branded as 'pornography' by the left ... the chasm between right and wrong,the right and the left widens and deepens at their behest

[garylmoore]

I'm sorry but this author had the wrong attitude before he saw the movie, he had already made his judgement. Sounds like just another left nut.

[Finalapproach29er]

I understand why he hates the Cross so much, his parent committed suicide, and he has become a barely functioning drunk(last time I checked).

This guy wrote a hateful book about Mother Teresa. He hates the world because it isn't Communist. Lost soul.IMO

[samtheman]

To those Christians who seriously believe "the Jews killed Christ":

1. The Crucifixion. Was it, or was it not, PREORDAINED?

2. Where would your religion be today if Jesus had died at the age of 75 of a heart attack?

3. Do you even have the slightest conception of what the crucifixion means? (If you answer yes, and you also believe that "the Jews killed Christ", then you're wrong, you don't have the slightest idea of what it means.)

[Dudoight]

Does Hitchens say he saw the film? Again, it's an attack on Mel Gibson. I enjoy Hitchens a great deal, but this article has a preconceived bias. If he were intellectually honest about the film, he would leave out all the ad hominems on Mel.

[Cronos]

What a pile of *****. The satanistss really are coming out of the woodworks. though Roman soldiers actually spoke a dialect of Greek
. Does this idiot have proof one way or the other WHAT language the Roman soldiers spoke? Was he there with a microphone and tape? Fine, if he thinks they spoke in Greek, make a version in Aramaic and Greek. Big deal, most folks (in case this idiot didn't realise) don't really speak ancient Aramaic or Latin or Old Greek and that's a pretty big majority in the English speaking world.

Idiot, scumbag. Watch the movie again and again. Show them with your continued attendence what you think of these scum.

[prairiebreeze]

They know not about many things. Especially themselves.

Prairie

[Cronos]

I DETEST CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS.

He gets into an argument after uttering a series of crude remarks like 'a film that principally appeals to the gay Christian sado-masochistic community'.

Where was this scumbag when the LAst Tempation of Christ came out. What did he say then? Has anyone got his criticism of that movie?

[wimpycat]

I'm not surprised Christopher Hitchens would say something like this. After all, he's an atheist, and there's something about people who believe in God, especially Christians, that really pisses him off for some reason.

And so it's not surprising that he would see something nasty and degenerate instead of what's really there. He's not just an atheist. He's downright hostile and contemptuous when it comes to people who really believe.