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...that I answered, directly and indirectly, in four subsequent TOFs. A column suggesting that Cal Ripken?s 16-year playing streak didn?t entitle him to hero status stoked another couple hundred comments, most of them dismissive. Last month?s piece on the liberal media?s contempt for Mel Gibson and his Jesus movie provoked a heavenly host of e-mails - more than 400 in the first three days - from people who, glory be, agreed with me. I try to answer every e-mail, but was overwhelmed, in both senses, by the Mel-strom in response to that story...
...expected to bear those consequences without seeking to have the accusations tested by the tools of the academy. Yet many resist such testing, regarding it as disrespectful of religious beliefs. TV commentators Sean Hannity and Bill O’Reilly have labeled criticism of the historical accuracy of the Gibson film as Christian-bashing. But the quest for truth is to be commended, not condemned. Religious fundamentalists cannot have it both ways. If the story of Jesus’ trial and crucifixion is claimed to be true, then it must be subjected to historical tools of truth determination...
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...
...Gibson's movie tells the story of Christ's Crucifixion as it was--bloody. Two thousand years ago, man was just as uncivilized toward his fellow man as he is today; just look at what goes on around us. Gibson took what he read in the Bible and put it on film. I applaud him. KEN SIEGERT Tampa...
...Gibson's controversial The Passion Of The Christ has earned $250 million at the U.S. box office in just three weeks. Reverent Hollywood moguls are now combing through the Scriptures for other projects with religious themes. ABC started the procession with its long-shelved telefilm Judas, left, which aired to middling ratings a week ago. Film versions of the best seller The Da Vinci Code (to be directed by Ron Howard) and The Chronicles of Narnia, C.S. Lewis' Christian-themed children's epic, are also in the works. More fare for the faithful...