orcus's Journal: The Passion Of Chrfist

This article,
http://www.marshallnews.com/story/1062992.html
is all happy-happy-joy-joy about this new Mel Gibson movie - such sappy comments like:

We don't (or didn't for many years) talk about how utterly horrible and inhumane Roman scourging and crucifixion really were. Do the research and you'll find out. Better yet, see the movie. From what I've seen and heard, Gibson's interpretation of the ordeal is very true to what really took place.

*Blech*

I truly wonder what this author would have to say if Mel Gibson came out with a movie about how the Christians conducted their Crusades - in full graphic detail - and then again, a movie on how the Spanish destroyed the Inca's and the Aztec civilization and instituted their own religions.

What gives one society the right to simply move in - destroy an entire religious belief system that is JUST as valid as your own religion (which is not saying much)???!

Wake up people - you've had wool pulled over your eyes now for 2000 years!

To say nothing of The Inquisition

[Sensitive Claude]

The only movie I can think of off the top of my head to discuss it is History of the World Part 1, which turned The Spanish Inquisition into a musical.

Would you ever have expected that?

heh...

[tuxette]

I truly wonder what this author would have to say if Mel Gibson came out with a movie about how the Christians conducted their Crusades - in full graphic detail - and then again, a movie on how the Spanish destroyed the Inca's and the Aztec civilization and instituted their own religions.

Either it will never happen, or it will be portrayed in a "the Aztecs (or whoever else is concerned) deserved it and it was for their own good"-manner.