Word: crucifixion
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Simpson describes the Laramie attack as a "crucifixion," and he spoke at a vigil at the U.S. Capitol not long after Shepard died. Barney Frank, the openly gay Massachusetts Congressman and a friend, warned Simpson that because he was a Republican, he would be booed at the vigil. He was, but lesbians and gays from around his state also introduced themselves to him that day. "I said to myself, 'This is fascinating; these people are from all over,'" Simpson recalls, with self-conscious bemusement. When Francis approached him to join the R.U.C., he readily agreed. The group signed its credo...
...world's greatest liar. It is impossible for me to believe a liar or charlatan could have had the effect on mankind that he has had for 2000 years. We could ask, would even the greatest of liars carry his lie through the crucifixion, when a simple confession would have saved him? ... Did he allow us the choice you say that you and others have made, to believe in his teaching but reject his statements about his own identity...
...sinned and even God in the death of Jesus. With that in mind, it could be tricky to find "an overwhelmingly favorable consensus among people who might be offended," as a movie exec said. But then consensus has never been the point of the story of Jesus' Passion. The Crucifixion has always divided people into those who believe in it as the great saving act of a just and loving God and those who see it differently. Gibson is in trouble not because he has offended some Jewish groups but because the Crucifixion offends liberal sensibilities. NEIL TODMAN Bristol, England...
...even God in the death of Jesus. With that in mind, it could be tricky to find "an overwhelmingly favorable consensus among people who might be offended," as a movie exec put it. But then consensus has never been the point of the story of Jesus' Passion. The Crucifixion has always divided people into those who believe in it as the great saving act of a just and loving God and those who see it differently. Gibson is in trouble not because he has offended some Jewish groups but because the Crucifixion offends liberal sensibilities. Neil Todman Bristol, England...
...even in the face of calamity, he went on making love scenes, colored sometimes by the knowledge that man is a beast in all senses. In 1939, one year after White Crucifixion, he completed Midsummer Night's Dream, in which a woman uses her blue fan to deflect the ardor of a goat-ass who is but also is not Shakespeare's comic Bottom. We are born partly of the animal world, says Chagall, but sometimes we transform our base impulses into gold...