Word: crucifixions
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...wrong with the crucifix. Hanging in the tiny church in a Virginia country town, it distresses the new pastor. The wooden corpus, Monsignor Vincent Shepherd observes, has "square, unsuffering eyes" that symbolize to the priest so much that is wrong with his church and his world. The sense of crucifixion is gone. Instead, he reflects, "it was as if Christ had never really suffered and died, but had only had the Last Supper, with twelve smiling men of social commitment and three folk guitarists, and then knocked the stone away from the tomb...
...liberal Christians alike have charged the play with antiSemitism. The recounting of Christ's Passion, though it is drawn from the New Testament, embroiders considerably upon the biblical accounts. The florid script, rewritten from older versions in 1860 by Parish Priest Joseph Alois Daisenberger, fixed blame for the Crucifixion totally upon the Sanhedrin and the Jewish rabble, which amateur actors portrayed with much shaking of angry fists and fiendish cries for Jesus' blood. After the Second Vatican Council declared in 1965 that Jews-ancient or modern-bear no collective guilt for Christ's death, the mostly Catholic...
...theater and pull down the shades and give you all the toys you want...girls, pills, grass, a vibrating thumbsucker if you want...everybody wants to see it, too many people want this--it's democratic...the show must go on, the greatest show on earth: war, crucifixion, rape, submission...to You...you can be anything you want, here, in this theater locked and alone, you don't have to live with anybody, be responsible for anything...you can be whatever you want to be...except yourself...
America had better prepare for its Gethsemane. The crucifixion will not be far behind...
Brian, Christ's next-door neighbor as a toddler, grows up to hate the Roman oppressors, and joins a group of Judaean terrorists. He raids Pilate's palace with them, gets caught, and is sentenced to crucifixion by the proconsul, whose speech impediment undermines his pomp ("Bwian, you awe sentenced to cwucifixion...