The book/movie should be offensive to all Christians because, whether fiction or not,
(1) it portrays Christ as a liar and a fake;
(2) it denies the most central tenets of Christianity -- the divinity of Christ and the Resurrection;
(3) It portrays a Christian Church of almost a billion members as conspirators who have perpetrated a fraud on the entire world for the last 2,000 years; etc.
If you are not offended by this, then how about I write a book about your mother and portray her as a lying crack-whore? Hey, what's the problem? It's only fiction, right? Right?
Do you get it now?
(1) it portrays Christ as a liar and a fake
Do you get it now?
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But as Christians, we're not called to be offended, we're called to share the gospel of Jesus. Don't go see the movie if your offended by it. I'm not a Tom Hanks fan so I won't see it - I do agree that it is terribly offensive to try to show Jesus anything less than perectly sinless - BUT it's not up to us to be offended if people choose to not believe the same as us. That's what makes us different than the muslims who believe they have to kill and make others see their point. That right there is the core of Christianity - God gives us the choice to believe or not believe and no one twists our arms.
I remember back in the '80s the movie "The Last Temptation of Christ" came out. From what I heard of it, it was vile and nasty. I was a little girl and had no desire to see it, but I remember people saying, "No one is going to tell me I can't see that movie." I would have hoped that the Catholic church would have learned from that. A movie that most people wouldn't have bothered with became a movie to go see because it was forbidden.
Think however you'd like, it's really no skin off of my back.
Have a good evening! :)
That was not a very nice thing to say.
"...how about I write a book about your mother and portray her as a lying crack-whore?"
LOL! That about sums it up.
LOL...
GO GET 'EM!!!!!