[txzman]

Gore and Violence, in any way you want to defend it is NOT defensible in the Christian perspective.

Those who demand that believers see the Passion have no clue as to mans inhumanity to man.

I do not need to see death to understand death. Or do you not know what Christ spoke about?

[FBD]

"Those who demand that believers see the Passion have no clue as to mans inhumanity to man."

I don't think anyone is demanding that you see anything, FRiend.

But the hypocrisy of liberal fim critics is interesting to observe. I think that is the point of this thread, perhaps you missed that?

[Jeff Chandler]

Gore and Violence, in any way you want to defend it is NOT defensible in the Christian perspective.

The Passion of the Christ is about the passion of Jesus. It cannot be decpicted realistically without realism. It is not gratuitous violence; it is the Blood of the Lamb, shed for our salvation.

Those who demand that believers see the Passion have no clue as to mans inhumanity to man.

I missed the part about believers being demanded to view it.

I do not need to see death to understand death. Or do you not know what Christ spoke about?

Christ spoke "This is my Body, which will be given up for you." and "This is my Blood...which will be shed for you and for many."

[dpa5923]

Who demanded that you see it?

[goldstategop]

The problem is we read a sanitized version of the Bible. It was the Jews and then the Christians who triumphed over pagan Rome and end the bloody spectacle of crucifying thousands who wanted freedom. Jesus isn't the world's first revolutionary but he was the most prominent champion of the idea the man's rights come from God and not from the state. That is exactly the reason the Left hate's Mel Gibson's movie. Their opposition has nothing to do with the violence in it but rather with the notion that God gave each and every one of us grace and dignity and the birthright of freedom that no earthly power can traduce or take away. Today's liberals want Washington to be as all our powerful in our lives as Rome. We conservatives on the contrary believe in the proposition man is born free by the grace of God and answers not to the state but to the God who created him.