1 posted on
03/04/2004 9:43:16 AM PST by
NYer
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Song of the Angels William-Adolphe Bouguereau
What is more tender and beautiful than a mother and a child?
Catholic Ping - let me know if you want on/off this list
2 posted on
03/04/2004 9:45:36 AM PST by
NYer
(Ad Jesum per Mariam)
To: NYer
Sounds clear and simple to me.
3 posted on
03/04/2004 9:46:49 AM PST by
fml
( You can twist perception, reality won't budge. -RUSH)
To: NYer
I thought the baby in question was Michael Eisner.
4 posted on
03/04/2004 9:47:46 AM PST by
Migjagger
To: NYer
A lot of people wondered about this one.
To: NYer
The daughter of a co-worker said, "It's the Anti-christ." Everyone I relate this to remarks, "D'oh!" (or something to that effect).
6 posted on
03/04/2004 9:48:04 AM PST by
Eala
(Sacrificing tagline fame for... TRAD ANGLICAN RESOURCE PAGE: http://eala.freeservers.com/anglican)
To: NYer
"I believe the Devil is real, but I don't believe he shows up too often with horns and smoke and a forked tail. The devil is smarter than that. Evil is alluring, attractive. It looks almost normal, almost good—but not quite. That explains a lot about the period between 1992-and 2000.
7 posted on
03/04/2004 9:48:24 AM PST by
ilgipper
To: NYer
"it's evil distorting what's good"
The moment a thing is strange is when it is the most familiar...
9 posted on
03/04/2004 9:52:12 AM PST by
BossLady
To: NYer
I think it was excessive exposure to Ingmar Bergman films.
11 posted on
03/04/2004 9:57:50 AM PST by
Stentor
To: NYer
"Again," said Gibson, "it's evil distorting what's good. What is more tender and beautiful than a mother and a child? So the Devil takes that and distorts it just a little bit. Instead of a normal mother and child you have an androgynous figure holding a 40-year-old 'baby' with hair on his back. It is weird, it is shocking, it's almost too much—just like turning Jesus over to continue scourging him on his chest is shocking and almost too much, which is the exact moment when this appearance of the Devil and the baby takes place." The movie's okay, I guess, but I prefer the book.
To: xsmommy
The Passion of the Christ ping!
Interesting information.
13 posted on
03/04/2004 10:06:12 AM PST by
CSM
(Looking for a stay at home mom for my future offspring!)
To: NYer
Then we shot her almost in slow motion so you don't see her blink—that's not normal.Like Michael Kinsley, Marshall Applewhite, Wesley Clark, Jean-Bertrand Aristide--all noted non-blinkers.
To: NYer
It is weird, it is shocking, it's almost too much—just like turning Jesus over to continue scourging him on his chest is shocking and almost too much, which is the exact moment when this appearance of the Devil and the baby takes place." I needed that "too-muchness." I let my emotional defenses down, and the act of turning Jesus over broke right through them. It hit me right in the heart. It hit me at a very visceral level, and it was very necessary. I'll never forget that scene. It has forever changed my mental image of the scourging.
21 posted on
03/04/2004 10:13:37 AM PST by
Aquinasfan
(Isaiah 22:22, Rev 3:7, Mat 16:19)
To: NYer
No wonder Andrew Sullivan HATES this movie. Androgyny is a particularly suitable way of depicting evil? What a proposition for our culture to digest!
To: NYer
What's Up With the Ugly Baby?I didn't know Helen Thomas had a cameo in this movie??!
23 posted on
03/04/2004 10:16:17 AM PST by
ItsOurTimeNow
("By all that we hold dear on this Earth I bid you stand, men of the West!")
To: NYer; Dataman
It'd be silly to argue with Gibson about his own meaning, but I took it to refer to the seed of the serpent in Genesis 3;15 (to which the film's opening scenes already alluded), as Satan mockingly watches the Seed of the woman.
Dan
26 posted on
03/04/2004 10:18:30 AM PST by
BibChr
("...behold, they have rejected the word of the LORD, so what wisdom is in them?" [Jer. 8:9])
To: NYer
That's what evil is about, taking something that's good and twisting it a little bit."A perfect description of the queer-marriage thing.
27 posted on
03/04/2004 10:22:04 AM PST by
fella
To: NYer
Gibson: "... That's what evil is about, taking something that's good and twisting it a little bit."
I don't know about twisted, but does swollen with evil count?
28 posted on
03/04/2004 10:27:20 AM PST by
upchuck
(I am upchuck and I approved this message because... well, just because.)
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ping!
29 posted on
03/04/2004 10:31:24 AM PST by
nutmeg
(Why vote for Bush? Imagine Commander in Chief John F’in Kerry)
To: NYer
he portrayed Satan [as] androgynous ... Evil is alluring, attractive. It looks almost normal, almost good—but not quite ... That's what evil is about, taking something that's good and twisting it a little bit.A fitting description of the homosexual lobby
30 posted on
03/04/2004 10:32:13 AM PST by
SpyGuy
To: NYer
Good post - thanks!
32 posted on
03/04/2004 10:43:13 AM PST by
talleyman
(Satan is the Father of Lies - Satan is a Democrat)
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