[MineralMan]

"Of course the movie doesn't tell everything about Christ - It is about the last twelve hours."

Yes, I understand that. I'm not criticizing the film. I'm just offering the reason I'm not going to see it. I'm not suggesting that anyone else not see it. I'm not bashing Christians or Christianity.

For me, the Jesus story is an archetypal myth, one repeated in several mythologies. Because of that and because of the large numbers of people who believe that myth to be true, I'm always interested in depictions of the story.

[Lancey Howard]

Let's see - - you are not interested in seeing the movie, you claim to be an athiest (how shallow and full of yourself can you get?), and you offer the sneaky jab that the story of Jesus is an oft-repeated "myth". Yet you show up on this thread and pollute it with a bunch of inane posts, mostly talking about yourself and your interests.

Take a hike, Bunky. I don't think anybody cares what you think.

[roylene]

I am intrigued by your stance of atheism. I read your file information and you said that you do not respond to personal notices, so this is the only place I can ask you a few questions. What is that you believe in? When you look into the faces of your children, what do you feel? Do you believe that all of ‘this’ is just an accident? How do you define morality? At what point in your life did you come to the realization that we may be alone? I really am interested in how you think / feel about these issue. Of course I have more questions but enough for now.

[gatorgriz]

You disgust me... You truly do...

[BigSkyFreeper]

A little friendly advice. Try approaching subjects or individuals you disagree with sometime with an open mind. You and everyone around you will be a lot better off.

[plain talk]

I'm just offering the reason I'm not going to see it.

I guess what I find odd is why you would think we would care one way or the other why an atheist would or would not want to see this film. I came to this thread to read reviews about the film, not wade through self-absorbed posts by atheists who supposedly don't give a rip about religion yet are drawn to religious threads like bears to honey.

[CroftonFreeper]

If you don't get it, you won't get it.

[Crispy]

"For me, the Jesus story is an archetypal myth, one repeated in several mythologies. Because of that and because of the large numbers of people who believe that myth to be true, I'm always interested in depictions of the story."

I am an atheist too, but you just seem scared to watch the movie. Sorry, but it is kind of obvious. I will watch the movie because I want to support Mel Gibson for going against the establisment and risking his own wealth in doing so.

Another reason I will see the film is because all the liberals are attacking it. I hope it is the biggest hit of the year.

[Tribune7]

For me, the Jesus story is an archetypal myth

Granted that you qualify it as applying to yourself, but the reporting of the events surrounding Jesus are nothing like an archetypical myth.

Time, dates, places and people are cited in the reporting, which is contemporaneous -- and deemed so by standard scholarship -- and from multiple sources.

[Salvation]

**I'm always interested in depictions of the story.**

Then I think you will want to see this. I understand it is very different from previous depictions.

[far sider]

(OK. I'll get into the act, too.)

Peter (who was an eyewitness) and Paul (who may have been also) didn't think it was a myth.

Gal 6:14 But God forbid that I should glory, save in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, by whom the world is crucified unto me, and I unto the world.

1Pe 2:24 Who his own self bare our sins in his own body on the tree, that we, being dead to sins, should live unto righteousness: by whose stripes ye were healed.