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| >>Or http://tinyurl.com/255mx
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| >I have to tell you... I am not easily offended, but this cartoon does it
| >for me. (This is not directed at Stephen)
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| Wow. Whoever drew that little cartoon must have their head up ... er...
| where the sun don't shine. They certainly haven't seen the movie.
I have to agree. It is amazing - for crowd that so often likes to point
piously to their own good intentions, the Left cannot fathom that folks who
disagree with them are motivated by any but the worst of human motives.
In truth, it tells us more about how they approach life than anything else.
The whole left-wing backlash against The Passion is instructive. The same
folks who praised Reservoir Dogs, Natural Born Killers, etc., are all
ghastly appalled at the blood of Christ and the sound of his cracked bones
as he gave the ultimate sacrifice for mankind's wicked ways (as depicted in
the violent movies in which these same people find artistic merit).
"The Last Temptation of Christ" is hailed as artistically sound because it
shows Jesus banging Mary Magdalene. How human. But an "in your face"
real-life depiction of the crucifixion, and the hate and mob mentality that
drove this terrible but apparently necessary act of violence to its
conclusion, is deemed unworthy of serious artistic consideration. Because
it's "too violent". Yeah, right.
Whatever. I was moved by the movie because it is the first time we have been
asked to seriously contemplate just what crucifixion *means*. Every other
movie in the past sorta white-washed the issue.
The movie could have been better in terms of explaining the motives of the
high priests. A few flashbacks to Christ rabble-rousing (going after the
money-changers in the temple, calling Caiaphas & Co. hypocrites on numerous
occasions, etc.) might have dulled the absurd but nonetheless damaging
charges of anti-Semitism against the movie by making it more "personal"
(which for them it was insofar as he threatened their place in society).
This is also however a mild source of amusement. Many of the lefties
claiming anti-Semitism are the first to embrace Arafat and other Jew-haters
of unquestionable anti-Semitic quality. But Mel Gibson is the target of
their ire - not real world, true-blue, unabashed, indisputable anti-Semites,
who seek the bloody destruction of Israel, but who also happen to be
left-wing icons, like Arafat. Only conservative icons can be called
anti-Semites, apparently - even on flimsy evidence, such as a few lines
taken verbatim in the context of the crucifixion from the bible.
- Bob
©2004 Bob Calco |
