[Liz]

"Hollywood has spoken. 'Don't mess with us,' is what they're saying," said Jennifer Giroux of seethepassion.com. " 'Don't mess with us because we will not consider your talent if you do anything that is Christian,' is the message that's coming out."

FReepers will be tuning out the Academy awards show. Hollyweirdos need to get the message loud and clear that they have been tolerated in the past only through the good will and forebearance of conservative Christians Those days are over. Hollywarped is in for a rude awakening. Let 'em ponder this.

Christianity is part of the Common, or Natural Law. Therefore it is Christianity that is the basis of our government. Religion of any other type is not synonymous with the American experience of Liberty! Justice James Wilson signer of the Declaration, the Constitution, Original Justice on the U. S. Supreme Court, and the father of the first organized legal training in America.

It is the duty as well as the privilege and interest for our Christian nation to select and prefer Christians to be their representatives, as this is a Christian republic. Justice John Jay Supreme Court Justice

It cannot be emphasized too strongly or too often that this great nation was not founded by religionists, but by Christians, not on religions, but on the Gospel of Jesus Christ. For this very reason peoples of other faiths have been afforded asylum, prosperity, and freedom of worship here. Patrick Henry

[madprof98]

In recent years, a top Oscar went to somebody portraying a nun in a respectful way -- Susan Sarandon in 'Dead Man Walking.' "

If Sister Helen Prejean had made a career protesting against abortion instead of capital punishment, any film about her would have depicted her as a flaming lunatic. And the part would NOT have been portrayed by the ever-so-PC Susan Sarandon.

[NYer]

"There's so much violence that was part of the script, I mean, the suffering of Jesus is -- I have to say, in my reading of the script, to me, there was a fixation on the suffering, the torture, the brutality done to Jesus," said Sister Mary C. Boys of the Union Theological Seminary.

The following quotes represent some of the most unfair statements on Mel Gibson and his film, "The Passion of the Christ."  The selections in each category are in reverse chronological order.

"In a church whose highest leadership has prayed for God's forgiveness for exactly those sins over the past millennium and whose teachings repudiate such practices, the answer can only be no.  The new wine of post-Vatican II teaching cannot be contained in the old wineskins of the pre-Vatican II Passion play that is the film 'The Passion of the Christ.'"

Sun-Sentinel (FL), March 22, 2004; Sister Mary C. Boys:

Catholic Ping - Come home for Easter and experience God’s merciful love. Please freepmail me if you want on/off this list

[Liz]

Both Giroux and Hynes accuse the academy of snubbing "Passion" simply because of its Christian theme. But Oscar scholar Tom O'Neil, host of awards handicapping site Goldderby.com, said Christianity had nothing to do with it. "The faulty premise here among the disciples of 'Passion' is that the movie was worthy," O'Neil said. "The vast consensus of American film critics said it was not worthy -- beginning with The New York Times, which called the movie a 'serious artistic failure.' "

Yeah, sure like the NYT is unbiased. Or did Jayson Blair write that review sitting in his apartment?

[Military family member]

I spent the weekend watch the most of nominated films, thanks to DVDs and a great second run movie house.

Look, I love "TPOTC" but I'm afraid I have to agree with the fact that it is not one of the best movies of the year.

Granted, it has the greatest subject matter. Granted, it has some great--truly inspired--production values. Overall, however, it is not one of the top five films of the year. But should the Oscars go to movies with the greatest subject matter, ignoring everything else? If so then hundreds of movies have lost out. But many such films have won best picture, including these with religious themes: Ben Hur in 1959, A Man for All Seasons in 1965.

And again, The Academy Awards are industry awards, given by the people who make films for the people who make films, just like Free Republic gives out its Eagle Awards given by Freepers to Freepers. Outside groups should expect to have no more influence over the Oscars than anything else, and they need to get over it.

And frankly, Mel Gibson needs to get over it, or start fighting his own battles. But Mel wants everything his way or else. He makes the film on his own, sets his own time table, then refuses to do anything to garner nominations, exactly what he did for Braveheart, which did win Best Picture. He wants his Oscar nomination, but his way, just like he wants to be a practicing Catholic, but his way. If Mel had wanted the nominations, he could have gotten it by doing what every other film maker does--campaign in the trades. Michael Moore refused to do it, and lost all nominations, although best documentary was probably his for the taking.

Finally, the film industry would have gotten hammered regardless of what happened this year. If films such as "Passion of the Christ", had received nominations, then the Left would be pounding the Academy for pandering to President Bush and the Religious Right.

[franky]

Strange but I did not know that Union Theological Seminary had Nuns?

###"Sister Mary C. Boys of the Union Theological Seminary"###

[franky]

"Sister Mary C. Boys, Sisters of the Holy Names and professor of practical theology at Union Theological Seminary"

What does she teach? If it feels good do it theology? I think it used to be called "Situation Ethics"

I did a Google search and it seems her only claim to fame was panning the movie.

[missyme]

The Oscars are a Joke the films and the Actors are today's Lollipop Trend. The Majority of Americans have chosen through film and politics what we are looking for as a Moral People. I hope the Oscars will have the lowest ratings as IMO it's only the MTV Generation who will be tuning in...

I wonder if the Passion of Christ will be shown during Lent in the Movie Theatres?