Thursday, April 14, 2005
Hey? What the?!?!
I didn't notice Amy's subtle nastiness until I looked at this part of her comment again today:
I think maybe it could serve to strengthen ones faith but it is not going to turn an athiest (or a Jew, same thing) into a believer.
Wouldn't it be insulting atheists more to put them into the same category as a religion? How does our atheism make sense giving your previous comment that we killed your Lord? Our bloodlust had a theological foundation. It doesn't make sense. And are you even a devout Christian? Can we have even killed YOUR Lord then? Maybe we just killed a nice guy. Hardly a crime given the moral standards by many governments today.
Next time you want to say something about Jews, don't hide behind easily overlooked paratheses... freaking coward.
So there. No I don't have schoolwork I'm avoiding.
I think maybe it could serve to strengthen ones faith but it is not going to turn an athiest (or a Jew, same thing) into a believer.
Wouldn't it be insulting atheists more to put them into the same category as a religion? How does our atheism make sense giving your previous comment that we killed your Lord? Our bloodlust had a theological foundation. It doesn't make sense. And are you even a devout Christian? Can we have even killed YOUR Lord then? Maybe we just killed a nice guy. Hardly a crime given the moral standards by many governments today.
Next time you want to say something about Jews, don't hide behind easily overlooked paratheses... freaking coward.
So there. No I don't have schoolwork I'm avoiding.
Tuesday, April 12, 2005
Two severed thumbs up
I saw Sin City tonight and enjoyed it a lot. I didn't even read the graphic novels the movies were based on and was still very satisfied.
And despite all of your worries out there it looks like I'm not desensitized to violence by all the things I watched. There are about ten times as many scenes in Sin City that are as intense as the most violent scenes in Kill Bill, and although I didn't turn away from the screen, I had to cringe a lot. Brutality you imagine is a lot worse that flashy expolosions and blood in some really bad movies.
And despite all of your worries out there it looks like I'm not desensitized to violence by all the things I watched. There are about ten times as many scenes in Sin City that are as intense as the most violent scenes in Kill Bill, and although I didn't turn away from the screen, I had to cringe a lot. Brutality you imagine is a lot worse that flashy expolosions and blood in some really bad movies.
Monday, April 11, 2005
More controversy
I can't believe how much hostility I get from my very small blog audience. First Lyon expresses his conservative views, and now Amy in the comments shows her true Anti-Semitic colors (I knew they were there just waiting to be expressed) by putting up this incredible comment without any provacation whatsoever:
I have to watch the Passion of the Christ for my class and Chris and I watched half of it last night. So before I continue this friendship with you, I need to know one thing. Why did you kill my lord?
Why are all my friends bigots? So the short answer, Fuhrer Brown (or Fuhrer Johnston-Brown?), was that we killed your Lord because we were not being satiated enough by all the blood of Gentile babies we were drinking. Franky I'm glad Mel Gibson depicted Jesus' death so graphically, because it shows how much Jews love to hurt people. I mean, we didn't just kill your Lord, we asked the Romans to give him extra and more prolonged flayings to really show him who's boss. We sure showed those upstarts within our tribe! We upped our intimidation factor so high during the whole Jesus thing, that no one laid a finger on us for the rest of human history!
Okay, no more dark sarcasm. As far as the Passion goes I have not seen it, but do you remember any news coverage about how it was the family Christian movie to see? What the hell? I wonder if there was any discussion in any Christian household where the humbled housewife told her husband that maybe this cinematic version of Christ's death would not be the best for their 4 or 5 year old.
I remember when the Passion came out that Bill O'Reilly on TV was also talking about Kill Bill as a horrible movie representing all that's bad about violent depraved American pop culture. And I couldn't believe it, first because Kill Bill was one of the most artfully fantasy violent movies ever made, but also because I couldn't comprehend an artistic value system that said entire families could be exposed to prolonged and bloody torture scenes (which what I hear is the entirety of the Passion's last half hour) as long as Jesus is in it. Think about it, if the kids from all these evangelical families are forbidden to watch all rated R movies, are kept from any non-conservative Christian social circles, and are exposed to a very little range of ideas and philosophy, and their only violent film they are ever allowed to see is The Passion, how warped can their minds get? Especially young developing ones? The only depiction of blood and torture on film they're allowed to see (at least until their 17) is tied up with religion? Yikes. If only Beatrix Kiddo in Kill Bill had a little necklace with a cross on it.
Also, I remember on Fox News when there was fake outrage after the Passion was not nominated for any major Oscars, a representative of a conservative Catholic group, after talking about how Hollywood hates Christian values, blah blah blah, he said that he got two DVDs for his grandkids for Christmas: The Passion and Spiderman 2! So on movie night those grandkids get to choose from GUT-WRENCHING webslinging action or TOTALLY AWESOME flesh flaying and crucifixtions. Or maybe those adjectives should be switched, they're both equally entertaining. I hope someone gets me a double pack of Schindler's List and a Woody Allen movie for next Chanukah!
Have I overloaded on superb wit on this post or what? Please post your thoughts. Maybe the Passion has some good elements to it that I don't know about.
I have to watch the Passion of the Christ for my class and Chris and I watched half of it last night. So before I continue this friendship with you, I need to know one thing. Why did you kill my lord?
Why are all my friends bigots? So the short answer, Fuhrer Brown (or Fuhrer Johnston-Brown?), was that we killed your Lord because we were not being satiated enough by all the blood of Gentile babies we were drinking. Franky I'm glad Mel Gibson depicted Jesus' death so graphically, because it shows how much Jews love to hurt people. I mean, we didn't just kill your Lord, we asked the Romans to give him extra and more prolonged flayings to really show him who's boss. We sure showed those upstarts within our tribe! We upped our intimidation factor so high during the whole Jesus thing, that no one laid a finger on us for the rest of human history!
Okay, no more dark sarcasm. As far as the Passion goes I have not seen it, but do you remember any news coverage about how it was the family Christian movie to see? What the hell? I wonder if there was any discussion in any Christian household where the humbled housewife told her husband that maybe this cinematic version of Christ's death would not be the best for their 4 or 5 year old.
I remember when the Passion came out that Bill O'Reilly on TV was also talking about Kill Bill as a horrible movie representing all that's bad about violent depraved American pop culture. And I couldn't believe it, first because Kill Bill was one of the most artfully fantasy violent movies ever made, but also because I couldn't comprehend an artistic value system that said entire families could be exposed to prolonged and bloody torture scenes (which what I hear is the entirety of the Passion's last half hour) as long as Jesus is in it. Think about it, if the kids from all these evangelical families are forbidden to watch all rated R movies, are kept from any non-conservative Christian social circles, and are exposed to a very little range of ideas and philosophy, and their only violent film they are ever allowed to see is The Passion, how warped can their minds get? Especially young developing ones? The only depiction of blood and torture on film they're allowed to see (at least until their 17) is tied up with religion? Yikes. If only Beatrix Kiddo in Kill Bill had a little necklace with a cross on it.
Also, I remember on Fox News when there was fake outrage after the Passion was not nominated for any major Oscars, a representative of a conservative Catholic group, after talking about how Hollywood hates Christian values, blah blah blah, he said that he got two DVDs for his grandkids for Christmas: The Passion and Spiderman 2! So on movie night those grandkids get to choose from GUT-WRENCHING webslinging action or TOTALLY AWESOME flesh flaying and crucifixtions. Or maybe those adjectives should be switched, they're both equally entertaining. I hope someone gets me a double pack of Schindler's List and a Woody Allen movie for next Chanukah!
Have I overloaded on superb wit on this post or what? Please post your thoughts. Maybe the Passion has some good elements to it that I don't know about.
