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...Gospel and the Gore 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 more attuned 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...
...dark middle-ages spirit of misery and terror that Van Biema referred to has been the excuse for barbarian atrocities by Christians against the Jewish people throughout the ages, culminating in the Holocaust, which yielded several million more "crucifixions" of innocent Jews. Moshe G. Katz Rishon Le-Zion, Israel...
...guilt, doubts began to creep in. Then on Thursday evening, Acebes announced that in Alcala de Henares, a town about 19 miles northeast of Madrid where three of the ill-fated trains had originated and which the fourth had passed through, police found an abandoned white Renault Kangoo van containing seven copper detonators and a tape of Koranic verses recited in Arabic. That discovery harked back to the hours after the attacks in New York City and Washington on Sept. 11, 2001, when a rental car was found in the parking lot of Boston's Logan airport containing flight manuals...
...With reporting by Esther Chapman/Omaha, Wendy Cole and Kristin Kloberdanz/Chicago, Sarah Sturmon Dale/Minneapolis, Julie Rawe/New York, Betsy Rubiner/Des Moines, Sonja Steptoe/Los Angeles and Deirdre van Dyk/Arlington
...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...