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Re: The Passion of the Christ
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Originally Posted by Hoovie
Saw it at the theater when it opened. I loved it even though I had tears in many scenes. Yes it strengthened my relationship with Him.
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If you can let go of the analytical side and just let yourself be moved by the story, it's worth seeing.
As for being anti-semitic; if you read the Bible in a straight forward fashion, the Jews come off as being directly responsible for His death (obviously we're all responsible from a philosophical POV). Antisemitism forgets to acknowledge that Jesus forgave the Jews for what they did; an accurate telling of the story requires that they be shown as culpable, and that it be also shown that Christ was only concerned with their forgiveness.
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"God, send me anywhere, only go with me. Lay any burden on me, only sustain me. And sever any tie in my heart except the tie that binds my heart to Yours."
--David Livingstone
"To see no being, not God’s or any, but you also go thither,
To see no possession but you may possess it—enjoying all without labor or purchase—
abstracting the feast, yet not abstracting one particle of it;…."
--Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass, Song of the Open Road
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