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March 13, 2004
The Passion o' the Christ
So I finally saw The Passion of the Christ last night. I was pretty impressed. It didn't meet any of my negative expectations. It wasn't anti-Jewish (though I can see a chance for lots of morons getting riled up against the Jews after seeing things movie) and the concerns about Pontius Pilate being too soft were silly. He is presented just as he is in the Bible. In fact, all of the movie seemed very accurate compared to what I remember of the Bible, and I didn't notice anything that went against anything I learned in Sunday School or Confirmation. There's still a lot of historical inaccuracies in the movie, which I won't list here because they're so easily found online, but they didn't bother me because I was just glad that the movie did not feel anti-Semitic in the least.
I was watching the movie with two people who violently hate Christianity. I pretty much forced them to watch it with me (keep in mind that I was not trying to convert them, as I'm also not Christian). Anyway I ended up having to defend Jesus most of the time while they were complaining about how stupid Christianity is and how hypocritical it is. Blah blah blah. Sorry if you read this guys, but you're being pretty hypocritical yourselves if you can respect other religions but not Christianity. I found nothing evangelical about the movie -- it was just a very vivid telling of Jesus' death and I saw no strings attached to it.
Anyway I just wanted to post that my honest opinion about this movie is a positive one; that I think it delivered its message without improperly distorting anything that was written in the Bible (whether or not what is written in the Bible is true is another argument that I will leave for some other time). That is my honest opinion as a logical human being and as a non-Christian. If you haven't seen it yet, go see it (if for nothing else than the opportunity to see a story that has been critical in shaping the course of History for the past two millenia).
Posted by dminky at March 13, 2004 02:59 PM
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