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...that the film “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...
...Christianity is burdened with an original sin of anti-Semitism...and a refusal to recognize the Jewish origins of the Christian faith,” he said. “At a certain level, anti-Semitism is almost an empty epithet these days...
Apps–15 seconds after a stay in the sin bin–received the face off at the side of the right offensive circle and wove in behind the Crimson players and across the goal to put the puck right in for the decisive goal...
...wonderful, but it can be a curse if it is obsessional. It is at the heart of continuous creation; it happens to affect our sense of achievement and also failure. Sex is about morality, because it defines the boundaries that give security to individuals, families and nations. Sex and sin collide when we take for granted that all we have to do is to be happy and be in charge. (The Ven.) Dennis Ede London...
...controversy; but it’s been hailed as if it were the Second Coming by the Christian Right. The movie 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. Gibson never wants people to forget that we are ultimately responsible for his Lord crucifixion. And by “people” I mean “the Jews...