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...David Van Biema...
...provided by an increasingly powerful evangelical minority. Some church activists seem honestly taken aback by the two measures being linked in controversy. It is, says conservative leader the Rev. Parker Williamson, "a disjunction, almost like frying ice." But apparently even fried ice can exert a chill. --By David Van Biema...
...David Van Biema. With reporting by Jeff Israely/Rome, Broward Liston/Orlando and Marguerite Michaels/Chicago
...dark middle-ages spirit of misery and terror that Van Biema referred to has been the excuse for barbarian atrocities by Christians against the Jewish people throughout the ages, culminating in the Holocaust, which yielded several million more "crucifixions" of innocent Jews. Moshe G. Katz Rishon Le-Zion, Israel...
David Van Biema's Viewpoint "Why It's So Bloody," on Mel Gibson's The Passion of the Christ [March 1], stated that the movie's brutal imagery is attuned more to the religious spirit of the Middle Ages than to today's Christianity. But the point of the movie is to remind Christians--and proclaim to non-Christians--that Jesus, in his humanity, suffered terribly in order to be offered up as the perfect sacrifice. There is no way to portray this other than in graphic detail. Many of today's Christians want to worship Jesus' Resurrection without contemplating...