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Subject: STOP this Blasphemy: Streaming Jesus
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Why isn't it on YouTube or X?
I've not seen this movie myself but I remember the "Life of Brian" protests and I got a similar one a few years back.
This was over a film that depicted Jesus as a woman* My daughter's friend who is very Christian got on FB and petitioned for its banning. I pointed out to her some of the other things that Christians have tried to ban over the years like.. the printing press, the Bible in English, cats and Elvis to name but a few and it might be better to let it be as she does not have to watch it.
In my experience all of the negative BS about this movie is what pushed it on to be a big hit. Willem Dafoe is Jesus in this film and his "last temptation" while dying on the cross is to imagine a normal life with Mary Magdeline instead of being the Christ. It does not follow any gospel naratives.
Thanks.
I had this film on VHS for years, it is pretty good, and is worth it for Harvey Keitel as Judas screaming Traitor! At Willem Dafoe's Jesus refusing to allow himself to be Crucified
Isn't this film spoken in Aramaic and pictured the real violence of J. Christ's calvary towards crucifixion? What did there people expect? Everything very pretty and lovely?
Dunno, I haven't seen it.
I was sent the link with request for condemnation if not damning by an elderly eccentric Dutch woman. I haven't bothered to ascertain if she is Catholic or Lutheran.
@FrayedBear, if it's the film I'm thinking about, the scene of the calvary is very violent. If J. Christ existed, the scene would be very close to what happened. That shows that people don't make much sense, especially the group that said that about the movie.
No that is the Mel Gibson's passion of the Christ, a nasty little bit of Anti-Semitic fuckery.
@LenHazell53, thanks for the correction.
@LenHazell53, @Paddypereira good Catholic boy Mel doesn't like Jews does he?
@FrayedBear, isn't he a Jew himself?
@FrayedBear He is famously an Anti-Semite, especially when he is drunk, or being arrested or both, he is also a holocaust denier
@Paddypereira No he is not Jewish, he is a Roman Catholic