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...course, Falwell fails to mention what Jesus might say about war; but, it’s pretty clear he’d be against it—which doesn’t make that bit particularly supportive of his cause. Falwell no doubt liked God better when he was laying down plagues and wiping out whole peoples from the earth. The God that he supposedly follows—the God of love, human fellowship, forgiveness and, to repeat lest we forget again, love—doesn’t fit in well with the Christian Right agenda. Reflexively...
Speaking of Jesus and Gibson, the movie that’s supposed to be about his last hours The Passion of the Christ, has attracted a lot of 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...
...urge you all to go see it. Sure it’s rated R, but that’s only for the violence. There is no sex in this movie,” televangelist Marcus Lamb assures his Christian audience. Jesus is tortured, flagellated, crucified and killed, but luckily doesn’t try to hook up with Mary Magdalene...
...film, according to Gibson, is painstakingly accurate. Jesus is played by a dark-haired, dark-eyed actor, and the only languages spoken are Aramaic and Latin. However, the film was shot in Italy rather than Israel—a modern-day Jesus riding atop a donkey trying to enter Jerusalem would be held up at a checkpoint and asked for his identity card. And that’s if he could climb over the wall surrounding the city first...
...faith, and I had to go to confession just because I had fallen in love with an Orthodox Jew,” says 47-year-old guest Michael Moreau. He wears red plaid and speaks earnestly with his hands. “I told my parents, I love Jews. Jesus was a Jew. My father told me I would be excommunicated...