[Weirdad]

Long article, but well said. The movie may be worth seeing and may help evangelize, but it is also worth thinking about carefully.

[walden]

Well, didn't he say that he was giving 5 reasons NOT to see it? Bad advice, in my opinion. See it, think about it, pray over it-- I think that would be a better course of action.

[JoJo Gunn]

I have a quibble with #5, and understand that I haven't seen the movie.

I was born in '56, and Jeffrey Hunter isn't burned in my brain as the face of Jesus.

[Diplomat]

If but one person who does not know the Lord comes onto Him because of this movie, then it was worth making.

[Straight Vermonter]

Yes God forbid we should have Godless atheists turned in Catholics. Oh the horror!

[JLS]

Well I just got back from seeing The Passion of the Christ tonight. I really do not see any of those reasons as valid.

Now should you take it as a replacement for The Bible, I would not think any Christian would. Nobody that I know of has claimed it has been Cannonized yet.

[jospehm20]

Sounds like this guy has a real problem with Catholics.

[anncoulteriscool]

It logical to think that Gibson would make a movie based on catholic understanding of the cricifixion....and protestants and catholic disagree on certain details of this event....overall, I think its a movie worth seeing from what I've heard.

[narses]

The anti-Catholic rant of the century. Read it, weep and critique please.

[opbuzz]

So a Brit organization doesn't want anyone to see it, and the French can't find a distributor.

Where is the antisemitsm?

[CWW]

More anti-Catholic bigotry and ignorance.

Let me adk my Protestant brethern who have seen the movie this question -- Is Satan happy with this film?

[MindBender26]

Nothing against you personally, but this is an extremely foolish article writing. Christians battling Christians is exactly like some Conservatives refusing to vote for President Bush because he isn't conservative "enough."

Is God so foolish that He would not use a medium of motion pictures that he permits to exist to spread His word. Does "preaching" not work when it is transmitted on television? Does it lose all effect when the Preacher uses a PA system?

Complaints that Gibson did not use a short, fat man to play Jesus? The author needs a dose of reality.

Complaints that Gibson did not simply have the actors read the Bible as opposed to using a script? Which Bible should they have used? Which translation? There are at least 7 major translations of the Bible and 57 minor ones. Should they have made 64 movies... or made it about 140 hours long? To follow this logic, how can a preacher even say "have a good week" or "the church supper tonight will be fired chicken," because those phrases are not written in the Bible?

This is a small man trying to chop down a very good motion picture and the man who made it. This a picture that will cause many believers and nonbelievers alike to vastly increase their faith and the deeds that follow faith.

For that, it should be praised, not picked apart.

[vpintheak]

I am not buying these arguments. Any movie that is based on the Bible is worth seeing. I don't care if it isn't exactly perfect. We Christians can moan and complain and bicker about details till the cows come home and it doesn't matter. What matters is that Jesus went through hell to give us a chance at heaven. That is all that is really important, and all that really matters.

[DallasMike]

I'm a staunch Protestant and yet I didn't see "The Passion" as a "Catholic movie." I see it as the best screen rendition yet on the last hours of Christ. It was made by and stars two Godly Christian men, both of whom happen to be Catholic. I'm perfectly okay with that and look forward to meeting them both in Heaven.

It should be obvious by the number of Evangelicals enthusiatically going to see this movie that this reviewer represents the opinion of a very tiny minority. This article really isn't worth debating.

[MegaSilver]

Long article, but well said. The movie may be worth seeing and may help evangelize, but it is also worth thinking about carefully.

Well said??

This article is nothing but pure and simple Romophobia from start to finish.

[MindBender26]

I get the impression this was written by an Ego-gelical.

[Alberta's Child]

Why should not The Son of David (Luke 18:38) have been a relatively small man like His great ancestor? It never seems to have occurred to most image-makers that Jesus could be relatively short, or stout, or even have had a receding hairline.

If the Shroud of Turin is any indication, Jesus Christ was, in fact, a man who was extraordinarily tall for that period of time. The image on the shroud doesn't seem to have a receding hairline, either.

[MEG33]

Oh,please.We have enough atheists and knee jerkers slamming a film about Jesus Christ.I , a Protestant, am not proud of this article.There are are multitudes of protestants who have a different view.It is not those things that divide us that seem to be what is important about this film.

[Hillarys Gate Cult]

6. Because the movie puts Hollywood on notice that they will have to start working for a living. They can't have that.

[unspun]

"Teacher," said John, "we saw a man driving out demons in your name and we told him to stop, because he was not one of us." "Do not stop him," Jesus said. "No one who does a miracle in my name can in the next moment say anything bad about me, for whoever is not against us is for us. I tell you the truth, anyone who gives you a cup of water in my name because you belong to Christ will certainly not lose his reward.
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An argument started among the disciples as to which of them would be the greatest. Jesus, knowing their thoughts, took a little child and had him stand beside him. Then he said to them, "Whoever welcomes this little child in my name welcomes me; and whoever welcomes me welcomes the one who sent me. For he who is least among you all--he is the greatest." "Master," said John, "we saw a man driving out demons in your name and we tried to stop him, because he is not one of us." "Do not stop him," Jesus said, "for whoever is not against you is for you."

[nmh]

I'm not a Catholic and have NO intentions of becoming one. I couldn't become a Catholic since I am Bible based. The author raises many valid points that other non-Catholics need to be aware of.

"Even the worst physical torments inflicted by the Sanhedrin and the Romans upon Jesus were nothing by comparison to the anguish of having the sins of all the elect imputed to Him and making full satisfaction for them. "

This is very true. His death was horrible yet the focus is misplaced. The above phrase has it right. By far the physical was tolerable compared to the emotional pain.