Passion of the Christ, your thoughtsFollow

For every action there is an equal and opposite reaction. Everyone does it, although it doesn't make it right. It took years to program, and it'll take years to de-program. The only thing that pisses me off is when people don't try, don't question what they're taught.

We're all in the situation we're in by the grace of God, or a quirk of luck, however you choose to see it. To think that it could not have been us, born male, white, female, gay, Arab, handicapped, etc. is egotistical beyond consideration.

Ummm, yeah? Jesus?

How's it going?

Oh, pretty good, can't complain.

Well, I'm calling to ask a favor actually.

If you wouldn't mind dying for our sins again, that would be super!

No, we really will try this time. Promise!

yes thats the one, um if it's not civil war which war was it? genuine curiosity btw.

[quote = Moe]thought that was a mini-series on HBO by Tom Hanks and Steven Spielberg.[/quote]

no that was a spielburg film with Tom Hanks called 'Saving Private Ryan' the Mini series was Mel Gibson and not even 1/10000000000th as good.

American Revolution...Civil War..eh, close enough.

EDIT: I own We Were Soliders .. AWESOME movie. I liked how they showed both sides of the war.

Edited, Tue Feb 24 17:12:18 2004 by Empyre

I liked how they were running around through bluegrass and birch trees.

In Vietnam.

Well - Mary WAS Jewish! And so was Joseph and Jesus and almost everyone else in the area who wasn't Roman! I think people forget this a lot of the time...

I know - I just think it simply makes SENSE to have someone who is Jewish play some of those key roles. Otherwise it's like those old "cowboy and indian" movies of the 30's and 40's that did not include any actual natives!

I love Mel Gibson, as an actor, director and fellow native upstate New Yorker so I do want to see this movie. I'm not religious and I don't give a **** about the moral and social ramifications, but it looks like a good, violent adventure movie. I don't think Mel ever indicated that this was going to be a documentary, but a dramatization. Dramatic movies based on real events will have a factor of creative liberty involved. As stated before, Braveheart, The Patriot etc. are full of factual errors. Hollywood is not exactly the best place to look for history lessons.

Now, with all this said, I probably won't even see this movie until either my office mate rips a copy and watches it at work, or it is shown on cable. Hell, I haven't even seen Return of the King yet, and I'm a Tolkienite!

I never understood this of the Christian belief. How can a god that is omnicient and all powerful feel the need to sacrifice his son to save mankind from himself <god>.

Everytime I saw a cute woman in a bar. I trusted that she was indeed a woman and not some skeeter waiting to spring the twig and berries on me. I was usually drunk, but hey, Faith was good back then.

LOL...isn't that the truth.

I never understood this of the Christian belief. How can a god that is omnicient and all powerful feel the need to sacrifice his son to save mankind from himself <god>.[/quote]

plot- Way back in the book of Genesis, when adam and eve first sinned. after they sinned they realized they were naked so they ran and hid when they heard God coming to them. of course God found them and it certainly wasn't acceptable to have them running around naked so long as they KNEW they were naked (kinda like how a kid dont know any better) so he killed some animals and used their skins to make clothing for them both. this is where the practice of sacrifice is initiated because sin is so horrible in God's sight that blood MUST be spilt to pay for (or cover) the transgression. and although the price is paid for their sin, it is an imperfect sacrifice so they must continually bring sacrifice to the Lord to keep themselves atoned for. (that's where Jesus comes in later) as you read further into the next four books of the old testament, God gives more specific instructions for sacrifice but this is the main gist of it. but eventually, God tells us that he is sick of seeing all of this blood being continuously spilt only to have to do it all over again because, lets face it. Man is an imperfect being. so thru the prophets God told of a perfect lamb that would have no flaw and the sacrifice of that lamb would atone for all sin so long as the person would accept this gift. Jesus was that perfect lamb.

ok, not sure if i got side tracked... now that i'm geared up for sunday i'll be happy to try to answer any other questions you or any one else might have. if i cant answer, i work for an awsome chaplain in the army. he prolly can.