Posted on 04/03/2021 4:43:59 PM PDT by Rummyfan
It's Easter and Passover at SteynOnline. We started on Good Friday with a little muscular Christianity and the sublime heights of western art on the Easter edition of The Mark Steyn Show...
But, as has become traditional for our motion-picture department at this time of year, we present Mel Gibson's big blockbuster from seventeen Easters ago. Mel has spent the last decade getting a little crazier with every year that passes - and I note, sympathetically, that he and I have had the same third-rate shyster tormentor for much of that period. Surprisingly, there have been no attempts to follow the success of this film, but back in 2004 it was impressive not just cinematically but as an interesting business model for bypassing Hollywood:
The headline on the Washington Post review summed it up: "'Passion' Is A Gory Take On A Gentle Teacher's Violent End". Somebody's confusing their Gospel with Godspell. A few days before the "violent end", the gentle teacher had been hurling tables around in the temple. And, even if you overlook the rough stuff, rhetorically Christ was as forceful as He was gentle.
That's the real argument over The Passion Of The Christ. It's not between Christians and Jews, but between believing Christians and the broader post-Christian culture, a term that covers a large swathe from the media to your average Anglican vicar. Some in this post-Christian culture don't believe anything, some are riddled with doubts, but even the ones with only a vague residual memory of the fluffier Sunday School stories are agreed that there's little harm in a Jesus figure who's a "gentle teacher". In this environment, if Jesus came back today he'd most likely be a gay Anglican bishop in a committed relationship driving around in a hybrid with an "Arms Are For Hugging"...
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Dominus meus et Deus meus
Sounds much better, as it has for hundreds of years until VC II.
I’m guessing you do your grocery list in latin, ebb tide, ha ha, joking.
You’re not funny; except in your ignorance of the Catholic faith.
Impressive how overflowing you are with charity and love.
It was hard for me but I got through it. I cannot conceive of the pain Jesus actually went through although it’s a central part of our faith. We live in relatively peaceful times compared to then when crucifixion was common.
You’re the one who questioned my Catholicism about matters of faith which your were unaware of.
Your sharp tongue can also cut you besides others.
Give it a rest. Tomorrow is Easter.
An absolute masterpiece.
The movie is disturbing but I believe the closest to the truth
Happy Easter
Happy Easter to you too!
re: “ I cannot conceive of the pain Jesus actually went through although ...”
I cannot fathom it either ... “offscale readings with the meter pegged” ...
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