Saturday, November 08, 2003
Watching Different Films
This is an article about the everpopular The Passion of Christ that I think deals rather fairly with everything and tries to keep everyone honest, presenting many views. Quote in point:
"Just as Jews are responding to centuries of Christian anti-Semitism (virtually all of it in Europe), many Christians are responding to decades of Christian-bashing — films and art mocking Christian symbols, a war on virtually any public Christian expression (from the death of the Christmas party to the moral identification of fundamentalist Christians with fundamentalist Muslims)."
Nitpick: The term fundamentalist is properly applied to certain people who use a collection of books entitled "The Fundamentals of the Faith" as their rule, so to speak. It's improper to apply the term generally to other groups whose only similarity is orthodoxy, and it's application to Muslims I'm still trying to understand, seeing as the Muslims whom it's applied to don't even believe in the divinity of Christ.
Summary: He's not happy about the movie, but he doesn't think that it will be a problem, and it's perhaps an opportunity for growth. I certainly hope so. Understanding is sorely needed.
This is an article about the everpopular The Passion of Christ that I think deals rather fairly with everything and tries to keep everyone honest, presenting many views. Quote in point:
"Just as Jews are responding to centuries of Christian anti-Semitism (virtually all of it in Europe), many Christians are responding to decades of Christian-bashing — films and art mocking Christian symbols, a war on virtually any public Christian expression (from the death of the Christmas party to the moral identification of fundamentalist Christians with fundamentalist Muslims)."
Nitpick: The term fundamentalist is properly applied to certain people who use a collection of books entitled "The Fundamentals of the Faith" as their rule, so to speak. It's improper to apply the term generally to other groups whose only similarity is orthodoxy, and it's application to Muslims I'm still trying to understand, seeing as the Muslims whom it's applied to don't even believe in the divinity of Christ.
Summary: He's not happy about the movie, but he doesn't think that it will be a problem, and it's perhaps an opportunity for growth. I certainly hope so. Understanding is sorely needed.
