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post #21 of 120
2/26/04 at 6:54pm
Oh, yes. I find it VERY offensive. I am disgusted with it.

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post #22 of 120
2/26/04 at 6:59pm
THANK YOU!


I mean, Im all for seeing the movie, dispite their tactacs for getting publicity the way they did.......

but I find that really wrong to make money of this type of image. At first I didnt believe that it could be authorized by Mel Gibson, but I see on that site it is......


Whats next? Will they be selling crowns of thorns in the Happy Meal? :
post #23 of 120
2/26/04 at 7:01pm
I agree. I understand in one sense that Mel wanted to get across how MUCH Jesus went through FOR US. On the other hand, it seems like he is adding insult to injury. He needed to consentrate on Christ's LIFE as well.
post #24 of 120
2/26/04 at 7:11pm
At least post something on the site about proceeds going to some charity...... or something.........!
post #25 of 120
2/26/04 at 7:21pm
Exactly
post #26 of 120
2/26/04 at 8:43pm
Tacky as all get out.


And I am hearing so much about obviously extra-scriptural stuff in the film that I am stunned at how many people have insisted repeatedly that it is "straight from the Gospel".
post #27 of 120
2/26/04 at 8:51pm
you mean HB's merchandise link was not a joke?
post #28 of 120
2/26/04 at 8:52pm
What WAS the deal with the demon, and the scene where the demon was holding a baby demon? I don't understand. And then Judas being tortured by demons. Stupid.
post #29 of 120
2/26/04 at 8:54pm
Quote:
Originally posted by rainsmom
Whats next? Will they be selling crowns of thorns in the Happy Meal?

: snort . . . chuckle . . .

(am I going to Hell now?) :
post #30 of 120
2/26/04 at 10:22pm
Quote:
(am I going to Hell now?)



You, me and Scorsese too!
post #31 of 120
2/26/04 at 11:01pm
Quote:
you mean HB's merchandise link was not a joke?
That was the real deal. :LOL I'm gonna git me some of those witnessing tools.
post #32 of 120
2/26/04 at 11:20pm
I read today, in my local paper, that a Baptist church was taking two bus loads of 11-13 year olds to see it this weekend. The pastor did mention that it might be rough, but the children were prepared. :
post #33 of 120
2/26/04 at 11:57pm
Prepared, my royal

Children, prepare to be traumatized.

Who will deal with the nightmares? God?
post #34 of 120
2/27/04 at 12:07am
Marg- your man is out of his cage!:LOL
post #35 of 120
2/27/04 at 12:21am
Quote:
Originally posted by Bladestar5
I agree. I understand in one sense that Mel wanted to get across how MUCH Jesus went through FOR US. On the other hand, it seems like he is adding insult to injury. He needed to consentrate on Christ's LIFE as well.
I've decided not to see the movie because personally, I believe that Christ would want his life remembered not his death. His death was what he did out of love for us but not his message, IMHO.
post #36 of 120
2/27/04 at 12:24am
If anyone cares......mel Gibson is going to be on LENO tonight. Im taping ER, so It was easy to set it a little longer to see what he's going to say.....
post #37 of 120
2/27/04 at 2:48am
Thge Leno interview was excellent.
post #38 of 120
2/27/04 at 4:09am
Quote:
Originally posted by rainsmom


Whats next? Will they be selling crowns of thorns in the Happy Meal? :
I know it's time for bed because I literally at that. :LOL

I do think the stuff they are selling is in bad taste.
post #39 of 120
2/27/04 at 7:59am
Quote:
Originally posted by georgia
I read today, in my local paper, that a Baptist church was taking two bus loads of 11-13 year olds to see it this weekend. The pastor did mention that it might be rough, but the children were prepared. :
I've been thinking about this all night. How do you get 60 or so kids of that age into a rated R film? I thought they had to be accompanied by your parent or legal guardian? Will a pemission slip from home and a pastor or youth group minister's approval cover it? How is that? It just seems wrong. Maybe the owner of the theater owed a favor to the pastor or something? And the police are fundamentalists too, so are letting them break the law?

Just wondering.
post #40 of 120
2/27/04 at 12:49pm
Funny with all this praising of this movie we forget the other stuff that comes with it.

For instance, how 'bout my cousin's son in elementary school being called a "Christ Killer" and a "Dirty Jew"?

It's not all halos and light.

Please balance your praise with the understanding that this is an "R" rated movie for the violence and folks ARE taking their children.

I am really and truly hurt today by what my cousin's child is going through with this interestingly-timed name-calling. It's a learned behavior.

Passion "plays" caused alot of pogroms in my grandparents' native Russia and other places... including the one my grandfather's family escaped after my grandfather was told by his schoolmate, "I spit on your God!".

I would not be here today if they had not escaped.

I will not see this movie and I will not support it.

But hey, that is just me, a hereditary Jewish pagan, with actively Jewish relatives. And for the record, my mother raised my sister and I Christian so we would not suffer such as she suffered.

And yet, the name-calling directed at my cousin's son yesterday, ....coincidentally I am sure, occurring just after this movie opened....is the very same name-calling my mother remembers as a child, when she and my grandmother were shoved into the gutter in my hometown, and spat upon after being called these names.

Seems the more things change, the more they stay the same, eh? and it ain't always pretty either.

Check this out too:
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmp...d/zeffirelli_1

Just some food for thought...Joyce in the mts.

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