Posted on 04/19/2010 4:33:08 AM PDT by Michael van der Galien
Two television networks showcased Cecil B. DeMille’s epic 3 ½ hour The Ten Commandments this Easter: ABC and Canada’s CBC. The 1956 film had no need for our 21st century Computer Generated Imagery to convince us that the Red Sea was indeed parting, and that the “bush burned with fire, and the bush was not consumed” (Exodus 3:2). I wondered if the networks made this choice because there is really no superlative modern narrative of Christ’s crucifixion and resurrection? We have Mel Gibson’s The Passion of Christ, but its gore and blood is too hard to take at Easter. The Last Temptation of Christ by Martin Scorsese is too idiosyncratic, and would be something to watch and study at another time in the year. There are plenty of bland and insipid made-for-television versions of Christ’s story, many of which are programmed during Christmas, but for some reason they were not screened this Easter.
Perhaps these channels chose to commemorate Passover rather than Easter, which fell around similar dates this year. Or they’re simply following the ritual of politically correct inclusiveness. Even President Obama has made Passover Seder-at-the-White House a new tradition, hosting it for the second time as President. No other President before him has hosted the Seder at the White House. Obama’s Seder started on a whim, it seems. During his campaign trail, two young Jewish aides were celebrating their Seder in a basement of a Pittsburgh hotel, away from home and family, when Obama joined their festivities.
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The Left hates God. All Leftist ideas basically come down to this.
The networks could have broadcast the 1977 presentation of Franco Zefferelli’s reverent account of the life of Christ, Jesus of Nazareth. This is by far the most intelligent and beautiful of film narratives. They also could have shown, the older film , King of Kings with Jeffrey Hunter. The music score in this is extremely moving.Usually the cable networks play these.
"... I was very impressed with how Chesterton, although writing in 1907, had already diagnosed the pathologies of the left. In fact, his ideas mirror exactly what Polanyi wrote some 50 years later about the “moral inversion” of the left, i.e., the dangerous combination of radical skepticism and an unhinged, ruthless moral perfectionism unbound from tradition.
Chesteron writes of the socialist that although he may have a “large and generous heart,” it is “not a heart in the right place.” And only a human being can have a heart dangerously set in the wrong location. It generally occurs “when a religious scheme is shattered” as a result of their intense skepticism.
When this happens, “it is not merely the vices that are let loose.” Rather, “the virtues are let loose also; and the virtues wander more wildly, and the virtues do more terrible damage.” Just because someone has a moral code, it hardly means that they are moral.
I have written a number of posts on the dynamics of this pathological process, which I thought that Polanyi had been the first to recognize. But Chesterton also writes of how “the modern world is full of the old Christian virtues gone mad. The virtues have gone mad because they have been isolated from each other and are wandering alone.”
Most every destructive policy put into place by the left can be traced to some Christian virtue gone mad i.e., feed the hungry, so steal from “the rich” and call it “giving,” or defending abortion on the basis of the sanctity of “liberty,” or encouraging every manner of deviancy under the guise of “tolerance.” [snip]
Everyone has a moral code. The question is which moral code do they have? Do they adhere to the time-proven Judeo-Christian code that this country was founded upon or do they adhere to the godless socialist code that obama and the rest of his ilk cling to?
As to the thread topic -> They could have shown "The Robe" or "Ben Hur" or any number of older movies that reflected the life of Christ.
The problem is that the left doesn't EVER want Christ to be glorified. They can't promote homosexuality or child sacrifice (Abortion) or other anti-biblical issues when people are Christ-minded.
That always struck me as wrong too. It’s a good movie, just not an Easter movie.
There is no such thing as a “liberal Christian”.
Liberal ideology is diametrically in opposition to all precepts of the gospel and scripture in general.
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