Mel Gibson's "The Passion" Movie Review

Written by Lady Camelot


Mel Gibson's 'The Passion' Movie Review by Lady Camelot

Numbing, captivating, sorrowful, beautiful, profound, phenomenal and humbling - are just a few words to describe Mel Gibson's "The Passion." The last 12 hours of Jesus' life has never been so realistically and dramatically depicted. The scenes, although graphic are compelling and true-to-life.

The most sensitive scene presents Jesus carryingrepparttar cross upon His shoulders. As He staggers uponrepparttar 126838 cobblestone walkway, Mary sees a flashback of their lives together. A mere child, Jesus falls torepparttar 126839 ground and Mother Mary is there to help him, "I'm here," she says. A million miles away in thought, Mary runs torepparttar 126840 aid of her now-grown Son-Of-Man, as He, too stumbles torepparttar 126841 stony pathway.

"The Passion" truly characterizesrepparttar 126842 meaning of "truth." There are no other words to describe this film other than it is "The Passion" of Christ. If anything, "The Passion" promotes absolute faith, forgiveness, love and hope - not only to God, but of humankind as well.

State Favors Result in State Control of the Church

Written by Peter Kershaw © 2001


Persecution of Christians aroundrepparttar world is at an historic and all-time high. While there is great cause for concern for their plight, one thing we can be quite confident of is thatrepparttar 126837 Christian religion will live on. Christianity has outlived every tyrannical regime, stretching fromrepparttar 126838 Roman Empire, torepparttar 126839 Soviet Union. It will also outliverepparttar 126840 murderous Islamic regime of Sudan, andrepparttar 126841 totalitarian Communist tyranny of China.

History has repeatedly shown that brutally attackingrepparttar 126842 Christian, whether through imprisonment, torture, or execution, has never served to undermine faith. Persecution only serves to strengthenrepparttar 126843 Christian faith.

Every time in history, and in every culture, when Christianity has been assailed,repparttar 126844 faith of its victims is bolstered, andrepparttar 126845 gospel then spreads like a wild fire. A contemporary example of this is China, where perhapsrepparttar 126846 greatest expansion ofrepparttar 126847 gospel in history is taking place, underrepparttar 126848 constant harassment of a brutal Communist regime.

Modern enemies ofrepparttar 126849 church are not altogether ignorant of this phenomena, and at least some have recognized that much more effective means are available for curtailingrepparttar 126850 expansion of Christ's kingdom.

In his seminal treatise onrepparttar 126851 political doctrine ofrepparttar 126852 separation of government powers, The Spirit Ofrepparttar 126853 Laws (1748), Montesquieu notes:

"Therefore, one does not succeed in detachingrepparttar 126854 soul from religion by filling it with this great object, by bringing it closer torepparttar 126855 moment when it should find religion of greater importance. A more certain way to attack religion is by favor, byrepparttar 126856 comforts of life, byrepparttar 126857 hope of wealth; not by what reminds one of it, but by what makes one forget it; not by what makes one indignant, but by what makes men lukewarm, when other passions act on our souls, and those which religion inspires are silent. Inrepparttar 126858 matter of changing religion, State favors are stronger than penalties."

This is preciselyrepparttar 126859 formula that has been followed by our own government, in recent years, as it grows ever more hostile toward Christian values. Rather than attack Christianity through various "penalties",repparttar 126860 modern method is to renderrepparttar 126861 church "lukewarm" by doling out "State favors." The most prominent of "favors" today isrepparttar 126862 tax-exempt license. But in reality,repparttar 126863 granting of a tax exemption torepparttar 126864 church is a monumental con job.

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