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- From: "eric walker" <eric.walker@channel1.com>
- Newsgroups: rec.arts.movies
- Subject: oliver stone's the bi
- Message-ID: <1992Dec23.1489.35539@channel1>
- Date: 23 Dec 92 07:52:07 EST
- Reply-To: "eric walker" <eric.walker@channel1.com>
- Distribution: rec
- Organization: Channel 1 Communications
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- WHT>The Christ was unconditionally loving, compassionate
- WHT>and fair, but he held no illusions about one's behavior and the
- WHT>the consequences it engendered. He`d insist on moral behavior.
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- Besides, any attempt to portray Christ as anything less than an
- impossibly perfect, God-like being who Knows All and Judges All would
- cause huge protests of outrage from the fundamentalist sect. Remember
- the protests when THE LAST TEMPTATION OF CHRIST was made.
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- One of my favorite quotes re: Bible movies comes from Martin Scorsese:
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- "...the teaching at Catholic schools placed such an emphasis on the
- divine side that if Jesus walked into a room, you'd know he was God
- because He glowed in the dark."
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