The Passion that just ended on TV was not the Mel Gibson one, but a updated musical.
My wife and I just watched it and were both impressed by the quality of both the production but also the crowd. A mixture of races and ages all being inspired by the story of Christ.
Oh ok, thanks for the clarification.
The Gibson one was definitely explicit.
There have been passion plays all down the centuries. For the most important event on earth to be excluded from the rightful subjects of drama seems strange. Nobody should confuse it with the best available account any more than, say, a musical about Jimmy Carter should be confused with news stories. I’d be the first to say, if in doubt about something, go to the bible and check it out. On the other hand, people who might never dust off a bible or darken the door of a church would miss a very important story if it weren’t for such necessarily imperfect accounts. The umbrage taken at such things seems to vary in direct proportion to the status the one taking the umbrage thinks he is has in Christendom in general.