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The Passion of
the Christ - a Film by Mel Gibson
Monday, March
1, '04
"I
don't believe that people are that cruel, but I know that they
are."
That odd contradictory thought ran through my head as I watched
the humiliation and physical torture of Jesus in Mel Gibson's The
Passion of the Christ. How could anyone believe that men would
take such pleasure in beating another man virtually to death, laughing
at him as they relentlessly mock him, spit on him, and worst of
all surrender to their own brutality as though it were a perfectly
natural way to enjoy oneself?
No sooner do I ask the question, in disbelief, than I have an
answer in the history of our own times -- the Hussein regime in
Iraq, the Nazis, Stalin, torturers equal to the torturers Gibson
portrays.
So does Mel Gibson go too far? Hardly, my friends.
(More to come, later.)
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