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...Party (BJP) has moved away from the politics of hate. Still, Advani reverted to type at an election rally this month in Ayodhya, where Hindu zealots had torn down a Muslim mosque in 1992 and demanded the restoration of what they said was once a temple to the Hindu god Ram. "We will build a Ram temple at Ayodhya," Advani declared at the rally. "India will be Ram's kingdom once more." TIME's Alex Perry spoke with Advani outside Ayodhya in the run-up to India's general election...
...father, a good, dignified man who is horrified at what his son has become. We meet many of Henry's 33 slaves, including Moses, his moody, brooding overseer: "Moses had thought that it was already a strange world that made him a slave to a white man, but God had indeed set it twirling and twisting every which way when he put black people to owning their own kind...
Director Mel Gibson’s The Passion of the Christ represents the teachings of Jesus through a gore-drenched recreation of the final 12 hours before his death. Here, the son of God is a wholly human figure, and Gibson constantly reminds his audience of this with an unceasing depiction of shredded flesh and spattered blood. The effect is alternately piercing and numbing. Nevertheless, Gibson eventually succeeds in overwhelming his audience with potent visual poignancy, finding narrative might in the passion plays’ minor characters. There are only glimpses of Christ’s words in the movie...
...hour-long documentary addresses the question: “How can anyone believe in God, any god, after experiencing life at its most devastating?” Young seminarian Macky Alston was two years from graduation, when a friend’s lost battle against AIDS forced him to explore this very question. Followed by a discussion with director Alston and Professor Claudia Highbaugh. Tickets free. 7 p.m. Center for the Study of World Religions, 42 Francis...
Favorite expressions: Both: Oh my god...