04-01-2004, 02:56 AM
Quote:It is anti-Christian insofar as the overfixation on violence against Jesus provides a dramatic and persuasive escape hatch from the more complicated and demanding witness of the Gospels: that a man whose intimacy with God reverberated through changed relationships that threatened the religious and political powers of his day, and that our own intimacy with God may demand no less. Tom Beaudoin, assistant professor of theology at Boston College, writer for the National Catholic Reporter
It would seem Tom Beaudoin is an idiot! He would have us believe the movie The Passion of the Christ was SUPPOSE to be about the relationship between a man and his deity, and that it avoided that topic (his own words were used an "escape hatch,"). The movie was just what Mel Gibson wanted! It was his interpretation of Jesus Christâs last 24 hours; nothing more, nothing less. Maybe Tom should of stated that IF he had made the movie himself, he would of included this "important relationship" aspect into the movie, but Mel choose not too. I see nothing wrong with that.
"The true value of a human being is determined primarily by the measure and the sense in which he has attained liberation from the self." -Albert Einsetin