This Week in God, 11-6-05

I recently watched AMC's "Movies that Shook the World" where the topic was The Last Temptation of Christ. This is the movie that Wal-Mart and Blockbuster, have refused to shelve. (Blockbuster is owned by Viacom, who owns Paramount Pictures, which was the studio that pulled the plug on the movies first production in 1983. How ironic?)
After watching this episode, I realized that people are stupid. Not that I didn't know that already. The movie's director, Martin Scorsese, got death threats. Isn't it funny that Christians who preach love and tolerance always have that one batch of bad apples who demean their religion by these tactics. Even worse, the religious groups sad the movie was Jewish Hollywood making an anti-Christian movie. Those damned Jews. Wait, Jesus Christ was Jewish. Moses was Jewish. Ten Commandments. Sermon on the Mount. Too much to think about. This is cosmic.
The show also made a reference to The Passion of the Christ, that overrated movie. Let's face it, Mel Gibson is an actor who has become popular by being severly beaten in his movies. Mad Max, The Road Warrior, Braveheart, Lethal Weapon. Even in Bird on a Wire, his legs got hit by a bus. So, it is only inevitable that he would make a religious movie where Jesus gets beaten and nothing else for two hours.
However, many of the protestors to The Last Temptation of Christ have not read the book the movie is based on, have not even seen the movie itself, and refuse to. I can understand. I have refused to see that other Wilem Dafoe movie, The English Patient, yet I don't protest it.
Ninety-nine percent of Christians are good people who don't want to cause a fuss. It's that other one percent of people like Oral Roberts and Pat Robertson who have to make a mockery of the very religion they profess to love.
It's about time the quiet Christians tell the loud ones to shut up!