To: af_vet_1981
"Somehow I don't see you coming out of an Independent Fundamental Baptist or Evangelical or Catholic church after a sermon on the crucifixion doing what you have done here tonight."
That would be correct, because my going to a Catholic reenactment of the Stations of the Cross would not have been preceded by a year-long propaganda campaign of lies, smears, demonization and misrepresentations about the Stations of the Cross.
If it -had-, and then I went and saw it for myself and it contained no such thing, -then- I would be extremely angry, and rightly so. But you just can't seem to accept that my anger cannot be extricated from the virulent anti-Christian attacks that I've witnessed in this last year, and that's why you keep drawing false analogies.
Qwinn
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03/06/2004 10:00:06 PM PST by
Qwinn
To: Qwinn
That would be correct, because my going to a Catholic reenactment of the Stations of the Cross That was not what exaclty what I meant. The assertion or hope of the Evangelical community was that by seeing this movie, you a self-described agnostic, would be moved to repentance of your sins and convert. You seem to have come out of the movie with a score to settle. I don't think hearing a sermon (even though millions have denied its message for centuries) is likely to produce that same reaction. There is a documented history of the Passion Plays and what effect they had on people in Europe. The Stations of the Cross, as I understand them, are introspective and meditative; not incendiary at all (at least that is my limited knowledge of them).
This movie does not seem to have had the effect on you the Evangelical community hoped for. You are only one data point, but you are here, in my face so to speak (I did not initiate this conversation with you).
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