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...When Mel Gibson began looking for influential ministers to endorse his controversial film, The Passion of the Christ, high on his list was the Rev. Rick Warren, founding pastor of the Saddleback Church in Lake Forest, Calif. (Warren loved the movie, reserved blocks of seats at local cinemas for his parishioners and on two weekends last month delivered sermons on the Passion and plans another one for Easter.) When the White House wanted advice on how to observe the first anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks, aides called Warren to meet with the President, the First Lady and West Wing...
...mails 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...
...recent events have raised profound questions about this dichotomy. Mel Gibson’s film The Passion of the Christ only highlights a dangerous trend among many religious Americans: to read the Bible as accurate history. Recent polls show that 60 percent believe biblical accounts as historical facts. More Americans believe the Virgin Birth occurred than that evolution is scientifically valid. The Pope is reported to have said about The Passion that “it is as it was,” despite previous Vatican criticism of literalists who read the Bible as history. Here is what the Pontifical...
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...
...Mel 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...