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Release Date: 31 August, 2004 Retail Price: $19.98 OUR Price: $13.99 You SAVE: $5.99! Cast: |
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The Cash-in on the Christ
You, the faithful remnant for whom 1962 never happened. . .
You who still move to the staid pulse and rhythm of the liturgical calendar. . .
You conservative Catholics, who are in many respects indistinguishable from mega-church-going evangelical Christians in your penchant for cheap political ostentation: American flags set in car windows, bumper stickers proclaiming the driver's abhorrence of Roe v. Wade or uncritical support of the present administration, and so on. . .
. . . I realize now the reason why Mel Gibson's *The Passion of the Christ,* which I understand is steeped in singularly Catholic theology, full of iconography and lore that the evangelicals' forebears would have derided as "Papistickal claptrap," could achieve such pan-Christian appeal. It was because the making of this film was more a political act than a devotional one. It gave both conservative Catholics and evangelicals an excuse to drop the cudgels of a centuries-old antagonism and rally around the pet project of a well-heeled schismatic madman. The film became an emblem of insularity and the absolute rejection of the liberalizing tendency of the last hundred years. It is a *fasces* in the pure etymological sense -- an axe carried before both the conservative Catholic and evangelical Christian with the purpose of smashing the coupling between them and the train of history.
As below, so above, I guess.
Wow...............
I need to start going back to church and confess my sins, I love you Jesus. Forgive me for all of my bogus, but goofy reviews. This is not one of them.
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