Mel Gibson's "The Passion of The Christ" Brings Out a Bigoted Response

Movie Guide (CBN) ^ | 1/26/04 | Dr. Ted Baehr

[OXENinFLA]

Did you catch the Actor that played Jesus on Hannity last FRI?

He was struck by lighten during the shooting of the film.

It will be replayed today some time today.

http://hannity.com/

[truthandlife]

I posted an article on it:

Gibson's 'Christ' Details Crucifixion Scenes, Reveals Conversions

[OXENinFLA]

I guess you did =)

Thanks for the link.

[mewzilla]

Anyone catch Mark Mullen's spot on Gibson on the Today show this morning? Mullen referred to Gibson as a member of a Catholic "splinter group" that rejects modern "reforms" to the Catholic church. So apparently being a devout Catholic now makes one a member of a "splinter group". Charming.

[Only1choice____Freedom]

So apparently being a devout Catholic now makes one a member of a "splinter group". Charming.

Jesus was part of a splinter group. Look what they did to him!

[Dialup Llama]

>don't let the kibitzers take away your freedom to think about God in a historically accurate way. If they can let Martin Scorsese defame the real Jesus by producing The Last Temptation of Christ in the name of the First Amendment, surely they can let Mel Gibson release the kind of movie about Jesus he wants to make.

Why is Scorsese OK but Mel Gibson is not? Why was The Gospel of John not greeted with a preemptive campaign of antisemitism charges like they did with The Passion?

The post-modern theologians and faithless, liberal Catholic bishops have two Jesus'. The Jesus of the Bible and the historical Jesus. The Jesus of the Bible is merely a character in text which they ignore at will because they claim it was written a 100 or even hundreds of years after Jesus. (The actual record of manuscripts point to the earliest dates as the true time of authorship of the Gospels, not the later dates. The disclaimer before the movie The Gospel of John takes this approach of erroneously claiming a very late date of authorship.) The historical Jesus is the Jesus of the DaVinci Code or the Jesus portrayed in The Last Temptation. There is no evidence at all for this Jesus but theologians put more stock in this one than in the Jesus of the Bible because it fits with their program of denigrating Jesus.

Either approach is an attempt to destroy Jesus as Messiah.

Yes even the Jesus of the Bible (or more precisely the Jesus of the post-modern Text) is an attempt to blunt the effect of the Gospel message. That is why after the reading the Gospel in a Catholic Mass the reader is prohibited from saying 'the proclaimation of the Gospel.' Instead they must say 'the Gospel of...' The Gospel is not the proclaimation of a text or an edifying story but the record of the Messiah on Earth.

Mel Gibsons' Jesus is not the Jesus of a distant text but Jesus unambiguously shown as Savior. That is why so many people must hate this movie.

[cousair]

It looks like the naysayers are looking to crucify the movie!! Shame shame.

[Dialup Llama]

>It looks like the naysayers are looking to crucify the movie!! Shame shame.

Buy tickets in advance as soon as they are available at the theater. Large advanced sales will mean even more screens will open with The Passion.

[truthandlife]

Mel Gibsons' Jesus is not the Jesus of a distant text but Jesus unambiguously shown as Savior. That is why so many people must hate this movie.

Bingo!

[truthandlife]

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[reed_inthe_wind]

Another kibitzer in the Los Angeles Times Book Review insisted that Christians remove all references to Jews in the New Testament.

What then? Are we Jews monotheistic descendents of Shem any better off? No, not at all; for I have already charged that all men, both Jews monotheistic descenents of Shem and Greeks, are under the power of sin, as it is written: "None is righteous, no, not one;

[tiamat]

i LIKE your tag-line!

;-)

Tia

[Shery]

I hope sales go well there...probably the ONLY way there is a chance we will see this movie in any military theater overseas.

[reed_inthe_wind]

Tagline? I thought someone would notice that Shem (shem + ite = semite)was the righteous son of Noah and therefore they might question the meaning of the quoted scripture. But, when a tree falls in the woods, is it ironic?

[tiamat]

When a tree falls in the woods, it CAN be ironic, but we are all too cool to notice!

;-)

No, seriously, I am just watching this thread because stuff like this fascinates me.

and it Is a good tagline!

Tia

[reed_inthe_wind]

thanks

[missyme]

I am sure they would like us to replace "The Jews" in the New Testament and insert the Muslims.....

With the exception of Orthodox Jews these Jewish folks are speaking as secularists who are trying to fool peoplemthat they have an idea about the Holy Bible.

Funny thing when I watched the movie "ROOTS" I never felt like my life was in danger... maybe I should of asked the producers of that movie to put in Indians instead of my heritage...;-0

[djf]

Actually, there is evidence that some of the early versions (the Aramaic gospels) were composed as early as about 60-70 AD. And it is widely accepted that Emperor Severus Alexander, the youngest ceasar ever to rule the Roman Empire, from AD 222 to AD 235, had a few extra statues in his private chapel, in addition to the Roman gods.

One of Abraham.

One of Jesus, the Nazarene carpenter.

[Major_Risktaker]

Funny thing when I watched the movie "ROOTS" I never felt like my life was in danger...

Excellent point!

Are these the same folks that tell us violence in movies will not affect children? After all it's just a movie.

However, they believe TV/Movies can be used as a tool to influence human behavior. They say with just one viewing of "The Passion of The Christ" that the film will turn all of us into Antisemitic maniacs ready to punch the first Jew we can find right after we come out of the theater.

WOW! what a movie. That would make the "The Passion of The Christ" the most mind controlling movie of all times.

In closing, I think all of the rhetoric is just a publicity stunt.