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...reasons for keeping Christ out of store windows during this time of year are economic, however, they might be ill-reasoned. When members of one religion (Christianity) are disproportionately more focused on buying gifts this month than the rest of the population, and when members of that religion make up an overwhelming majority of the population of the U.S. (just under 80 percent), pandering to purchasers who happen to believe that the son of God was born in a manger in the modern West Bank on Dec. 25 some 2,000 years ago seems like a fairly practical business decision...
...past--that place where the mindlessly cruel and the idealistically aspiring meet in vicious conflict--has been good to Mel Gibson. It brought him Oscars for Braveheart and hundreds of millions of dollars for The Passion of the Christ. It satisfies his directorial bloodlust and permits him to traffic in easily read moral metaphors about the issues...
...song’s surefire hook—accompanies it. “Milestone,” a beautiful track that rues the loss of passing time and the degradation of relationships, serves as a nice lead into the soft yet driving track “Jesus Christ.” The song sounds like a peaceful yet cynical prayer. The chorus, like on the first track, experiments with the bending of guitar chords and a wavering vocal line. This quieter track marks a turn in the album, which becomes pointedly louder and much angrier. “Degausser?...
...actors and actresses that populate the screen do so beautifully, in particular the lead Rudy Youngblood. The casting, unconventional and far from stereotypical Hollywood, is impeccable, as is the decision to have the characters speaking a Mayan dialect (no worries, this, like “The Passion of the Christ,” has English subtitles). In English, the movie would be ludicrous, but in Mayan the alien words contribute to the recreation of this long gone world...
Layered on this was the sense of a conservative swarm sweeping the country. War supporters and "values voters" were coming out of the woodwork in elections, lining up for The Passion of the Christ and making Fox the sole TV-news success story of the era. They were collecting scalps--Bill Maher, Peter Arnett, Dan Rather--and taking names. They had blogs and remotes and money, and they hated the press. Journalists might not slant stories to show their loyalty, but what was the harm in hanging a little bunting on the screen...