Well, Christmas, great as it is, isn't the most important Holiday on the Christian calendar. That's reserved for Easter Week--Holy Thursday, Good Friday and Easter Sunday. That would be the death and ressurection of Christ.
Meditating on Christ's rejection by men and death, is directly related to his teachings. His first and greatest commandment was “Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind." Rejecting God is the essense of sin we all engage in. It represents the opposite of Christ's teaching. And it was embodied not only by the rejection and death of Christ, but by the utterly cruel and depraved way he was rejected. That is the twisted heart of sin.
No, once in awhile I'll tune into Trey & Matt for a few laughs. But not for theological or historical insight.
Fair enough. But I think the point is that Jesus taught and preached some very important lessons in his limited number of years of ministry as a rabbi.
We should be listening to his wisdom and what he said 2,000 years ago, not antagonizing others with a "snuff film" about his horrible death.
Sure he was the most important man who ever lived (whether you believe he is the son of God or not), but hundreds of thousands of people were crucified under Roman rule. Their death and torture were equally brutal.
Torture and capital punishment still goes on today. I'm far from being a bleeding heart liberal so I'm not crying about terrorists being woken from their nap or hardened criminals getting the chair, but...
Everyone regardless of whether they are Muslims, Jews, Christians, atheists, agnostics could learn something from Jesus' wise words. Parker and Stone were simply saying that should be the message and not a bloody horror flick that incites hatred.