Carrying your thought forward, spectrum, I guess that would make Jesus an illegitimate Jew, wouldn’t it?
Not illegitimate, but heretical or apostate.
Of course, before we get there, we have to have the whole dispute over how far Jesus intended to carry his ideas as opposed to how far they were changed and redirected by his followers after his death (and resurrection).
Going by the extremely gory and graphic (IMO) trailer for the movie, I’d say he’s a sadomasochistic wacko.
Why’s that, vivalostwages?
Think he made up the crucifixion story by himself?
LOL…
No. But the trailer turns me completely off of the movie. That’s all I’m saying.
It’s pretty intense, I agree, viva. I downloaded it last night and had to pick up my jaw after the trailer ended.
Bloody, yes. No worse than other movies out there today, though.
I predict this movie is going to cause a huge stink when it opens. Just MHO, we’ll wait a year and see what happens.
The relevant point here, I think, is that they step outside to do their criticism. Now, personally, I think that dissent is essential to the health of the Church. But joining a community of faith - be it Catholic, Unitarian-Universalist, Buddhist, whatever - is like a marriage. You’ve made a committment. Doesn’t mean you won’t fight - indeed, “loving combat” is one of the definitions of a good marriage - but it does mean you honor that committment. Criticism from outside may very well be sincere, but it does often sound like carping.
By the by, an excommunicated Catholic is still a Catholic, albeit one who’d better wear sunscreen in the coffin. Cecil addressed this in a column once - I’ll post the date if I can find it.
January 16, 1998. And I misspelled “commitment.”:smack:
How can Mel’s movie be Anti-Semitic? There aren’t any Semites in it! (Apparently Judaea was entirely populated with Caucasians at the time of Jesus.)
You’re kinda missing the point here. Where, exactly, is “non-Catholic Christian wacko” implied in the term fundamentalist?
Just because he isn’t a Christian fundie, which is debatable, given that Catholics are, of course, Christians, doesn’t mean he isn’t a “fundie”.
As I recall, Khomeini and Bin Laden are often described as fundamentalists, and last I checked, Islam wasn’t a sect of Christianity…
That does not make him a Protestant, at least if one has the faintest idea of what a Protestant is.
It makes him the follower of a Vagante hierarch, but that’s not the same thing.
I didn’t dare open my jaw for fear I would retch. And I have seen a lot of gross stuff, but somehow this is different.
Well, since I won’t be attending, I will wait for your review.
“Fundamentalism” does not refer to any particular religion, but to an attitude toward religion. One can be a fundamentalist Catholic, or a fundamentalist Muslim.
Why should Gibson be immune to the kind of backlash Martin Scorsese experienced for the Last Temptation of Christ?