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Mel Gibson and the Maccabees
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| Dec 8th, 2004
Posted on 12/08/2004 11:31:33 AM PST by missyme
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To: missyme
"I think many of the Nazi's were closet homosexuals...."
Yeah the head of the Brownshirts were homosexual at the minimum and rumors are ripe that many other top NAzis had that inclination also.
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posted on
12/08/2004 12:19:08 PM PST
by
JFK_Lib
To: Dunstan McShane
No never heard of this film would be interested in seeing it though...
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posted on
12/08/2004 12:21:45 PM PST
by
missyme
To: missyme
(1) Unlike the Protestant of Jewish Bibles, the Catholic Bible considers the Books of the Maccabees to be Holy Scripture and Mel Gibson has a real cultural reason to want to make this film.
(2) It is impossible to make a film about the Maccabees anti-Semitic unless one films it from the viewpoint of the degenerate pagans whom the Maccabees rebelled against.
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posted on
12/08/2004 12:24:38 PM PST
by
wideawake
(God bless our brave soldiers and their Commander in Chief)
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To: missyme
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posted on
12/08/2004 12:28:30 PM PST
by
Alouette
("Who is for the LORD, come with me!" -- Mattisyahu ben Yohanon, father of Judah Maccabee)
To: missyme
X-rated art movies like "The Cook, the Thief, His Wife and Her Lover" Easily the worst movie that I've ever seen.
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posted on
12/08/2004 12:31:15 PM PST
by
Aquinasfan
(Isaiah 22:22, Rev 3:7, Mat 16:19)
To: wideawake
Unlike the Protestant of Jewish Bibles, the Catholic Bible considers the Books of the Maccabees to be Holy Scripture and Mel Gibson has a real cultural reason to want to make this film. Was the story in Maccabees of the pious woman and her seven sons of the same period? Yeeeeeeesh.
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posted on
12/08/2004 12:35:21 PM PST
by
Aquinasfan
(Isaiah 22:22, Rev 3:7, Mat 16:19)
To: Aquinasfan
Was the story in Maccabees of the pious woman and her seven sons of the same period? Yeeeeeeesh.Indeed it was. Why the "ye . . . esh"? It's a beautiful, inspiring story.
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posted on
12/08/2004 12:36:53 PM PST
by
wideawake
(God bless our brave soldiers and their Commander in Chief)
To: missyme
xercising naked in the gymnasium, "Gymnasium" means, "Naked training place".
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posted on
12/08/2004 12:38:51 PM PST
by
lepton
("It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into"--Jonathan Swift)
To: missyme
Gibson would do better to make a movie out IB Singer's The Slave. It is historical, a love story and the travails of a just man in an unjust world.
To: Alouette
Fast also wrote the novel Spartacus from where the Dalton Trumbo script for the Kirk Douglas film production came from. Fast recorded an audio commnentary that is on the DVD where he talks about his political motives and how those themes were partially diluted in the film.
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posted on
12/08/2004 12:41:56 PM PST
by
Borges
To: Alouette
I suppose that Mel is not aware Howard Fast was a staunch Communist Party member However, the link you provided also says that "Fast broke with the Party over issues of condition in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe." He also wrote "April Morning" and "How the West Was Won", hardly the stuff of "Pravda".
To: missyme
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posted on
12/08/2004 12:46:57 PM PST
by
Zionist Conspirator
(If Chanukkah celelbrates "religious freedom," why did Mattityahu cut the man's head off???)
To: Zionist Conspirator
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posted on
12/08/2004 12:50:52 PM PST
by
missyme
To: missyme
I don't know who wrote this but: #1. I thought "Palestine" was the name the Romans gave Israel, and their occupation of Israel occurred after the Greeks. #2. I seriously doubt there are more than a handful Jews who don't know that Chanukah is about the Chashmonaiim rising up and defeating the Syrian Greeks. #3. I don't get what the writer thinks is controversial about this subject.
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posted on
12/08/2004 12:52:13 PM PST
by
Cinnamon Girl
(OMGIIHIHOIIC ping list)
To: oldleft
I hate it when revisionists call it Palestine. It never was Palestine till the Romans named it that to humiliate the Jews.
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posted on
12/08/2004 12:55:15 PM PST
by
johnb838
(Killmore.)
To: missyme
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posted on
12/08/2004 12:55:27 PM PST
by
Zionist Conspirator
(If Chanukkah celelbrates "religious freedom," why did Mattityahu cut the man's head off???)
To: montag813
Many if not all of the American artists who became communists from the first half of the 20th century were naieve idealistic dupes. At least Fast was big enough to admit it.
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posted on
12/08/2004 12:56:27 PM PST
by
Borges
To: lilly725
With a couple hundred million dollars in the bank I think Mel can pretty much make any movie he wants, and the copyright on the Old Testament story of the Maccabees expired quite some time ago. I'll go see it.
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posted on
12/08/2004 12:57:33 PM PST
by
katana
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