Just Your Average Catholic Guy
I’ve seen “Catholics for Dean”s spreding their wings lately. The whole concept is simply revolting to me, as I thought it would be to all catholics with a conscience firmly inside the church. John Betts says it as well as anybody I’ve read on exactly why “Though Shall Not Vote for Dean”. Look, I would love to support someone who is liberal, if they didn’t also support the killing of children.
Jewish Groups Protest Film (washingtonpost.com)
I know that the most recent and supposedly pressing blogosphere controversy surrounding Gibson’s The Passion of The Christ has been in regards to the Vatican’s recent and contradictory statements, but I’m actually more interested in what the public thinks.
I see that this film can be a great witness to the life of Christ. After listening to several interviews from Jim Caviezel, I’m more than convinced of his deep and profound piety. He at one point in an interview on The World Over admitted that the Holy Mother had been preparing him his entire life for this film.
There has been nothing positive in the secular press about this movie.
Either the Vatican is lying about it, or it’s going to make people kill Jews.
Constantly and consistently we have a stream of statements coming from the Jewish community who are contending that it “may” incite anti-semitism, that it “may” lead to a backlash against Jews. Never mind that Gibson has himself constantly and consistently denied these charges, even noting he hired Jewish actors and actresses in order to play the parts. Never mind that the real issue is that Gibson chose to faithfully reproduce the Gospel narratives the way in which they are portrayed in the Gospels themselves. I’ve read them and the Jewish mob is blamed. Jesus weeps before his death at the sins of Israel, that they don’t recognize him for who he is. And yes Christians have and still do use these scenes as a catalyst for their xenophobia. There are, however, many white supremacist groups who reject much of the old and new testament, claiming that it is PRO Jew, and awash with Jewish propaganda. All of this begs the question, “Is it the text or the interpreter.”
In the end, don’t forget that what these Jewish leaders are decrying is really not the film that Gibson has made, but the Gospels that Gibson has drawn from. They’re mad that the film wasn’t written with their edits included. No, they were not invited to the table. And if they couldn’t come, none of us should go.
Which brings me to one last point. I was reading some blog comments recently where one poster suggested that the movie was at fault because it didn’t portray the gospels in the light of modern and enlightened biblical scholarship. Which of course only and exactly means the scholarship that views the gospels as a bunch of anti-Jewish mish mash written by an invisible “community”.
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“PASADENA, Calif. – (KRT) – The Spirit rover sent a short but encouraging stream of data back to Earth on Friday, but mission managers said the spacecraft’s life on Mars will not be back to normal anytime soon, if ever.”
No, they’re not out of the “woods” yet.
Mark Leech: Give them enough rope – why lifers should be offered a dignified exit
I’m sorry, but I don’t get the logic of some people. Apprantly, we should encourage “lifers”, that is those serving a life sentence in prison, a way out. So those people who have murdered dozens of people in cold blood, should be encouraged to kill themselves in a dignified manner. And yet, the death penalty is wrong.
Where are we living, 19th century feudal Japan?
Rover sends back blank signals
After the Challenger explosion on exit, and then Columbia on entry, and this catastrophe in route, I think it’ll be a stretch to send humans to Mars. Although I am eagerly awaiting the first blog about human exploration on mars. We don’t have enough blogs out there people, seriously. I’m predicting it now.