Word: depicting
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...focuses on the brutality and bloodshed visited upon Jesus, cleverly usurping the message of love and brotherhood, only to replace it with the message of intolerance, sin and violence” misses the point entirely. The critical moment in Christianity, Christians believe, was precisely when Jesus endured the hell depicted in the film. Christ went through it, according to Christian belief, so that the people that he loved (read: “everybody”) could be saved. Gibson attempted to depict the extent of that sacrifice. How successful Gibson was in doing this is potentially debatable. What...
...Shojo comics have little in common with the corny romance titles of yesteryear. These books are for an audience like the characters they depict, independent-minded girls for whom romance becomes another complication in a busy life...
...believe the court preserves the law, even though I have long contended that it’s constitutional to depict the Ten Commandments in the courthouse,” Pryor said. “Judicial activism, whether from the Left or the Right, is destructive to the Constitution...
...investigative-media outlet that managed to film several officials taking bribes, was shut down, and a systematic campaign of harassment let loose against its employees and investors. Individual Hindus have employed strong-arm tactics against Christian missionaries and burned down churches. And school history textbooks have been rewritten to depict India's medieval history as a long saga of unending Muslim barbarism. As Neeladri Bhattacharya, professor of modern Indian history at Jawaharlal Nehru University, noted in an article published last year, so inaccurate are the new textbooks that they represent nothing less than "declarations of war against academic history itself...
...They seem madly in love--"because we have this kind of relationship, everything has to be spoken, so it's much deeper," says Doc. And they are hardly radicals. Doc is a Schwarzenegger Republican and a big fan of the Left Behind novels, the evangelical Christian thrillers that graphically depict the damnation of the sinful. Both Surri and Doc criticize the moral laxity of parents who allow kids to shirk their chores and sass their elders...