This came up on Ray's blog a while back. Michelle did a cut and paste of a piece that went into medical, graphic detail about Jesus's torture and death. Made me think about the clips from The Passion of the Christ that populate YouTube. Never seen the whole film, but man are those clips hard to watch. I mean, they are really fucking graphic and disturbing, snuff film disturbing. And the comments are full of swoony stuff like "Oh, my Lord, how much you have loved me," etc. etc.
It occurrs to me that there really is something pathological about the obsession some Christians like Michelle have with the blood and gore and suffering, be it crucifixion or everlasting hell. WTF??
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As Patton Oswalt said:
ReplyDelete"Making a movie about the two days Christ got the crap kicked out of him is like making a movie about Einstein, but only the four hours of his life when he had explosive diarrhea."
^Lol - As if the suffering that christ supposedly went through were the worst thing that anyone could ever go through. I think I read a Cracked article on the 10 worst execution methods and crucifixion was only at number 8 while number three was the indescribable upside down sawing. Number one involved milk and honey. I'll let your imagination run wild with that.
ReplyDeleteI much prefer The Passion of the Benny Hill version ...
ReplyDeleteI always think about the tens thousands of men and women that gave their lives in WWI and II, etc to protect the frredome we are guaranteed via the Constitution.
ReplyDeleteTheir sacrifice is much more important to me.
When I was a kid growing up in Weirdsville Baptist Church there was a LOT of this sort of thing, very graphic descriptions of how Christ died. It was all a guilt trip set up as in 'Look what he did for YOU, what have you done for HIM?'
ReplyDeleteSeems to me that if you (xians) have a compelling argument you wouldn't need to guilt people into believing something or scare them into it with threats of hell.
The thing is, I like the Jesus story. I mean, I like it in the same way that I like The Odyssey. It's some good mythology, and I actually liked it better when I felt that I didn't have to actually believe that it was true anymore.
ReplyDeleteFor me, I'll take The Last Temptation of Christ any day - one of my favorite films.
While I could appreciate The Passion for what it was, I didn't really care all that much for what it was. A friend of mine gave me his DVD and my wife and I watched it. I don't think that I'll ever want to watch it again. Besides, I liked Apocalypto much better.
I like the Family Guy take on the Passion where Peter just tells the Roman guard to 'stop it!' and he does. Classic.
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Interesting that Gibson should end Apocalypto with the arrival of the Christian Europeans, what with all the death and destruction that they brought to the continent and everything. Wonder what he was trying to imply with that?