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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...
...total grants funding to over $28,000 for this semester. Before the grants were approved, the council heard testimony from a representative of the Catholic Students Association (CSA), which requested an increase—from $200 to $400—in funding last weekend’s When Hell Freezes Over Dance. The CSA charged $5 for admittance to the dance but was unable to cover expenses fully...
...Jewish kid is Kyle Broflofski, whose presence allows "South Park" to address the Jewish question that has dogged Gibson. In a great episode (410), Kyle's three friends - Stan, Kenny and Cartman - are prepared for their first Holy Communion and scared crapless that they'll go to hell if they don't confess all their sins. Kyle, equally, panicked, wants to confess too. But the very conservative priest, Father Maxi, informs Kyle solemnly that he and his hapless kind are condemned to wade forever in the wretched lake of fire. His colleague, the more liberal Sister Anne, is shocked...
...pretty scary stuff. I didn’t accidentally want to impale myself with my knife, you know?” Prats said. “But it was 5:30 in the morning, so I was like, what the hell...
...guards handed me a basket full of soaked cabbage, told me not to eat it but to give it to the 50 women.” She went on: “All who ate the cabbage leaves started violently vomiting blood and screaming with pain. It was hell. In less than 20 minutes, they were quite dead.” To buttress these accounts, South Korean human rights activist Kim Sang-hun offered a document he helped smuggle out of the North. Dated February 2002, it contained a government seal and referred to “human experimentation?...