Holy Hypocricies (Time critic lambastes liberals who sneer at The Passion and Mel)

Time ^ | Feb. 28, 04 | Richard Corliss

[Neets]

Or as someone else said earlier today...

Even a Blind Pig can find an Acorn once in a while.

[highlander_UW]

Its not the money or the subject matter; what has gotten liberals flummoxed is the fact millions of people wanted to see a movie like this despite all the bad press about it. They have no idea there are millions of people in America who take the Bible and religion that seriously. They don't know how to relate to this huge audience out there other than by putting them and their beliefs down.

You're correct. The liberals would rather think of Christians as just a strange little corner of the republican party that they can just hope stays silent in the face of constant public slander at the hands of the media.

[Howlin]

we're all gay Christian sadomasochists

I never knew that about you!

[mattdono]

Thanks to Foxman and the ADL, they have anti-semitism to use as a ragging point, so they will use

Well, I don't want to pick nits, but, believe it or not, Foxman recently (and quite reluctantly) has even admitted that there isn't any anti-semitism in the film.

But, you are exactly right on everything that you said.

[over3Owithabrain]

Bravo for Corliss - an honest liberal is rare indeed it seems! Good to see some in the media aren't going to truck rampant Christian-hating and hypocrisy. God bless him.

[Howlin]

[mountaineer]

It may have been a slight bit of hyperbole ...

[Tax Government]

Hollywood is discovering, suddenly, the money that can be made by promoting conservative ideals. The realization has been a long time coming.

The entertainment juggernaut cannot turn on a dime, but it will indeed turn. Within 5 years, most media companies will study carefully how best to appeal to conservative audiences.

[sharktrager]

They hated it before anyone had seen it. They hate it because it is a Christian piece, and they equate Christianity with the right.

[Howlin]

Did you see this movie?

I always think of Debbie Reynolds saying, "I'm gay!" when I read stuff like what you posted.

[mountaineer]

Didn't see the Debbie Reynolds movie, but that sounds like a good line. Actually, "The Passion" will be the first one for which we'll have set foot in a theatre in the last eight years.

[goldstategop]

30 years ago many liberals were Christian. Today the bulk of them are secular. The old mainline churches have been hemorrhaging membership and are a pale shadow of their former self. Liberal denominations have lost ground and liberals have lost their former high regard for faith. We've come a long way from the time when Martin Luther King, Jr. could quote effortlessly from the Bible and talk to America in the language of Isaiah and Jesus. Today, that would be regarded as a violation of separation and state. Liberals have more or less lost the capacity to talk to people of faith without sounding arrogant and condescending.

[Howlin]

Check it out; it's pretty funny; watching Kevin Kline dance to I Will Survive is worth the rental price.

[My2Cents]

Of course, we're all gay Christian sadomasochists, so it should be a laugh riot for us.

Yeah, we saw it yesterday, at a matinee, which was sold out. Everyone in the audience was carrying whips, and wearing black leather and crucifixes.

[My2Cents]

But I do not for a moment believe that is what really motivates their hatred of this film.

I'll state the obvious -- they don't hate the "anti-semitism," they hate Jesus. In fact, all of the hypocrites who complain about this films "anti-semitism" are pretty much the same people who wish that Israel would roll over and die.

[My2Cents]

“The United States Conference of Catholic Bishops has issued pastoral guidelines about how believers should dramatize the Passion ... almost every one of which Gibson violates.”

Gibson didn't use the pastoral guidelines. He used the Bible.

[EllaMinnow]

Andrew Sullivan is a gay, Christian, masochist, and he hates the movie.

Go figure.

[mountaineer]

Now I'm really confused. I guess I'll tell Mom to leave the leather at home.

[Howlin]

Andrew hates a lot of stuff lately.

[TheGeezer]

Liberofascists fear religion, since they cannot control it. They assume an air of superiority as a defense.

You have made some very astute deductions and observations.