Posted on 06/25/2012 10:04:26 AM PDT by Kaslin
It's taken over four years for film director Paul Verhoeven to get anyone to turn his 2008 book "Jesus of Nazareth" into a movie, but numerous sources last week say he's finally done it.
Deadline reported last Tuesday that Muse Productions will produce the film claiming Jesus Christ was the product of Mary being raped by a Roman soldier:
Jesus might have been the product of his mother being raped by a Roman soldier, which Verhoeven said was commonplace at the time, and that Jesus was a radical prophet who performed exorcisms and was convinced he would find the kingdom of Heaven on earth, and did not know he would be sentenced to die on the cross by Pontius Pilate. That, and the discounting of the miracles that pepper the New Testament, has made this a daunting project to set up.
Those not familiar with his name certainly will recognize some of Verhoeven's directorial hits including "Robocop," "Total Recall," and "Basic Instinct."
Roger Avary, who won an Oscar for co-writing 1994's "Pulp Fiction," has been tapped to adapt the book into a screenplay.
Indiewire noted Wednesday:
[T]he adaptation will depict Jesus in a more human light, hence the reason the miracles and the resurrection are being stripped from the story. Instead, Jesus will be portrayed as an ethicist and a radical prophet, whose message became too politically strong for the Romans to idly accept and endure. While that version may not seem blasphemous to Verhoeven, it more than likely is for many.
That's got to be next, right?
For years the atheists denied Christ even existed.
Then they said He planned His own crucifixion as a hoax
(Passover Plot). All the while religious fanatics blamed the Jews for killing Him. Then the Romans were blamed for killing Him. They have also claimed He was homosexual. Now they are casting aspersions on His birth, and defaming His mother, claiming this totally unsubstantiated story about a rape - again blaming the Romans.
Does their perversity and malice know no limits??
I think no other religious figure in history has been as much maligned and attacked than Jesus Christ. And NONE for so little reason.
Even while He was rejected by the political and theological elites of His own day, He is still subjected to groundless calumnies by their successors in the present day politically correct elites.
Those churches in the world which are still unabashedly Christian - from a religious and social perspective - had better launch some kind of modern day philosophical Crusade to restore the belief in Christ among those who are nominal Christians, or some day we will wake up and find our descendants are all Muslims and we are living in the same kind of Islamic hell which is found in Iran and Saudi Arabia.
There are passages in the Talmud that appear to make this claim.
As bad and irreverant as this is.
There will be impressionalbe people (educated by our socialist education system) who will believe that it is true.
Please, do not protest movies like this... Let them die the first weekend. Learn from PR mistakes in “Last temptation” The media loves to cast Christians as nut cases. Be innocent as doves and cunning as serpents.
Huh? What? Just what is it you are trying to say?
> Did mohatmutt even have a mother?
... he might have even had 2 of them, one was a goat and the other a camel.
In the $1 bin of unpopular BluRay movies at a Dollar Store.
yeah, I know. To show how brave they are they pick on Christians, the Bible and Jesus but would never think of picking on the “peaceful” muslims. So brave....lol
If they throw in some Leonard Cohen music, I'm there... buying movie tickets...
No, because that would be non-fiction.
Ticket sales for this flic will be very disappointing.
There is nothing new under the sun, this idea was pretty much Hitler’s religion.
From: http://www.anointedlinks.com/real_jesus.html
“So what race was Jesus? Hitler claimed that Jesus was of Celtic ancestry because there was a Roman garrison at Nazareth and he claimed that Jesus was sired by a Roman solider and was not even Jewish! I don’t think so...”
Well; that’s take care of the START of Jesus’ earthly life; but what shall they do about the END of it?
Well; that’ll take care of the START of Jesus’ earthly life; but what shall they do about the END of it?
In the words of Archie Bunker,
“Jesus was a Jew, but only on his mother’s side”
There are only two sides in the cosmic battle,
and “they” have chosen the losing one.
(I looked at the back of the book)
Yup. so true. Sad for them.
The muslims believe Jesus was only a prophet. This movie will justify their teachings.
ALVK is done for laughs; this nut’s serious as Al Gore.
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