So this blog was started because I hate most everything involving people. You, as a my reader, probably have already decided that this blog is moronic, and thats fine, you can go blog about it somewhere else. more power to you.
My hatred this hour has been generated by reading reviews for the movie "the last temptation" on yahoo movies. (which you can find here: http://movies.yahoo.com/movie/1800087273/info)
There's something particularly aggravating about people who take their faith so fucking seriously, that they cant take a fictional "what if" scenario and just brush it off for what it is: a what if scenario. So what if it portrays Jesus Christ as a normal, human individual. a lot of people I've talked to find that the movie enlightens them to be more attuned to him rather than hate people who created the movie!
Some religious fanatics protested the showing of the movie as if it was some sort of threat to their beliefs. Remember: It was just a movie. If your divine god's worshiper's life-long belief is threatened by a two and a half hour 'what if' scenario, you might want to ask why the tenants of your faith can't hold onto the members it's so desperately trying to save.
And why do some of these posters constantly refer to "the passion of the Christ" as a sort of rebuttal to this film? Although from a neutral perspective I did enjoy the story of the film, I find a sort of moral dilemma amongst a culture of people who find the blood-letting torture of a prophet more acceptable than a inquisitive insight into the mind of the man who was Jesus, and why he died for us. Why is the violence SO much more appealing to Christian audiences than the thoughts and human nature of their savior?
A humanistic Jesus just seems so much more appealing.
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