02-29-2004, 05:09 AM
Quote:The focus should be the renewal of life.
Well, that would just ruin it for me. To me, that's the part that was made up some time afterward. All this resurrection stuff, to me, is pure BS. The effort to make him divine, IMO, was to go up against the caesar, who supposedly was divine. IMO this divinization of Jesus effort unfortunately corrupts the gospels. There were early "Christians" who did not believe that Jesus was divine, but they suffered an involuntary separation from survival. But back to the movie...
The focus should be Love. That's what he tried to teach us. (Right?) And evidently the movie shows what Love is up against. ... so ... maybe you're right, or close to it-- the movie shows us how truly ugly and evil Hate is. You already know, you don't need the lesson; good for you, you're saved a few dollars. But many of us still need to see it, or be reminded, or else we get too involved with Stupid Things That Don't Matter.
-V
"Crucifixion? .. Good..."
-MP's LoB