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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.

The Passion of Christ
It is the BEST movie that I have ever seen in my whole life. The careful detail that the staff ( and of course, Mel Gibson )follows is simply INCREDIBLE. I thought that I was REALLY witnessing Jesus during His terrible ordeal.
The fact that the movie is spoken in the original language that Jesus spoke, and the Romans spoke, places the re-creation at so high a level that is impossible to describe. You just have to sit and watch. Nothing else for the spectator to do.
I never thought that mortal people could reproduce this crucial part of Jesus' life ( and death )with such reality.
Concerning the accusations of antisemitism, they just don't fit. With the same logic you might say that The Bible is antisemitic.
To be more specific, for example, when Simon de Cirene helps Jesus to carry The Cross, the Romans call him: "Jew" and not in a pleasant way. But in spite of being a Jew, Simon helps Jesus and defends Him.
You might say that the Romans are antisemitic. Has somebody said it ?

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