At the Divinity School, passionate talk of 'The Passion of the Christ'(Harvard Barf-caption time)

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[LadyDoc]

"The problem is that much of this stuff in the movie is in the Gospels," countered Cox. "It's read every Good Friday in churches." The film may push Christians, he said, to scrutinize what he called "these terrible passages" of canonical sources.

This shows their agenda. The "jesus project" already has plans for a new "canon" of scripture that includes new age gnostic gospels and get rid of the traditional ones.

And it shows that Cox and others are ignorant of normal everyday church practices. You see, Gibson's film most resembles the Catholic service "the stations of the cross" that is prayed in many churches weekly during lent. Pictures or symbols of the stations can be found on the walls of most catholic churches. (for example, remember the lady washing Christ's face? That is the sixth station. Three falls are also traditional, as is the part about Jesus meeting his mother part way down the road.

So for all their "scholarship" they don't know something that the average Dorcester truck drive knows about the movie, probably because they probably never bothered to dirty their feet by visiting Dorcester, Glouschester or North Boston....

[SkyPilot]

So for all their "scholarship" they don't know something that the average Dorcester truck drive knows about the movie

Amen. I lived in Cambridge for several years back in the 80's. Great town for Thai and Chinese food. But in terms of actual study and intellectual thought--MIT has Harvard beat hands down (much to the chagrin of the Harvardites). The proliferation of academic majors that end with the suffix of "-studies" are a joke.

Further, it is an act of theological blindness for these people to proclaim what was presented above.

[Jim Noble]

I still get the newsletter from the local Episcopal group.

Yesterday's led off with a longish essay about why the author would rather believe in and follow Frodo Baggins that the Christ of the Passion.

Sad that I am no longer astonished-but that's another story.

Mel's movie is calling out the believers from every church and every nation. I'm surprised at how many there are.

It also is shining a light on the unbelievers, who are of course numerous, as ever.

Frodo Baggins, indeed!

[dennisw]

So which one of these self-caressers is the atheist James Carroll?
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I am not a fan of "Passion" but this Divination School panel was loaded, lopsided. This is what passes for discourse in the hollowed halls of Harvard?

[kittymyrib]

Hahaha! Yes, Cox, you bound-for-hell unbeliever, it's really too bad isn't it that Christian churches will be reading from the New Testament on Good Friday exactly the things Gibson put into his film. They should instead be "re-educated" to believe whatever it is that you liberals believe...mostly that you are gods, I suspect. What a worthless waste of oxygen this entire assembly of the wicked at Harvard is! Barring death-bed conversions, I don't think they will be found among the sheep or the wheat on Judgement Day.

[GraceCoolidge]

"Pornographic," added Ellen Aitken, assistant professor of the New Testament, with biting contempt.

Well, from what I read, that would indicate it is a worthy topic for left wing "religious" studies, per the following:

Yale University student sponsors “Sex Week at Yale” using Yale funds, Yale facilities and with the support of Yale faculty and administrators. Several of the events were co-sponsored by Wicked Pictures, an adult film company that provided one of the keynote speakers—porn star Devinn Lane....

Multicultural porn considered “scholarship” at the University of California Santa Barbara. A University of California, Santa Barbara student received acclaim from professors and administrators for his Chicano Studies thesis on “Gay Men of Color in Porn.” The project was presented as part of the UCSB Multicultural Center’s tax-payer funded “Race Matters Series” in an effort to legitimize pornography as an academic pursuit.

You can read more about this at www.collegiatenetwork.org, where they name the winners of their "Polly" (campus outrage) award. What hypocrisy! But not a surprise, of course....

[joebuck]

"The problem is that much of this stuff in the movie is in the Gospels," countered Cox. "It's read every Good Friday in churches." The film may push Christians, he said, to scrutinize what he called "these terrible passages"

As has been noted by you and others this quote is a suprisingly honest admission of what really troubles these people. Their problem isn't with Mel's movie, it's the Gospels that they hate. Like many other pseudo intellectuals before them they whine because they can't remake God in their own image.

[rhema]

Forget the apostate opinions of these NCC mouthpieces. Let's hear what the authentic Christians, the Harvard Christian Impact students, have to say about The Passion.

[hellinahandcart]

It's not surprising at all.

People like this are the reason that I now have the same automatic reaction to the words "religious scholars" that I once did to the words "400 Constitutional scholars" (of Clinton impeachment fame).

When I read the words "religious scholar" it is usually always followed by more words that are not very religious (same with "Biblical scholar", it's inevitably followed by very unbiblical stuff). I think it must be lefty-journalist code for "this one's one of our'n; trot out the reverence and awe". If conservative Biblical scholars exist anywhere in the big-name schools, they are never sought out and interviewed. That wouldn't advance the post-Christian agenda.

Most divinity schools and seminaries have been taken over by Satan, frankly. In my denomination, there are only two seminaries left where openly traditional or orthodox candidates stand a snowball's chance in hell of being ordained. The others are slanted toward women, homosexuals, and Marxists. The female "assistant professor of the New Testament" featured in this article is an ordained Episcopal priest. Don't get me started.

I could have guessed how "The Passion" went over with this crowd, before I even began reading, or found out James Carroll was on the panel. They are utterly predictable.

[dennisw]

Well stated. More .edu totalitarianism where not one panelist was pro-"Passion"

I hope some of the students and attendees grilled these Harvard Divination school pooh-bahs

[Mamzelle]

What a disgraceful display. What a den of thieves. What a nest of vipers!

What frauds.

Gospels not a proper source for the Passion? What would be, then, the unread maunderings of these pukes?

[hellinahandcart]

If you ever wondered why any review containing any phrase resembling "Biblical scholars agree 'The Passion' is harmful" is always greeted here with posts like "Roast in hell, apostate, and kiss my @$$ before you go!", well, now you know.

Most of us had heard way more than enough from some of these scholars before the movie ever came out.

[freebilly]

The new Pharisees of America crucify a film about Christ....