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To: Lazarus_Long who wrote (31752)	2/27/2004 6:28:53 AM
From: Ilaine	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 793624

s not the death of Christ prophesied in the OT? How can ANYONE be guilty of ANYTHING here if all they are doing is carrying out God's will? Did they have a choice? If they had not done, the prophecy would be wrong. Well, those are all excellent points - which Mel Gibson has made over and over again in interviews about the film, e.g., recently in an interview with Diane Sawyer that was widely reported in the news. Those are also points made in the film. Allahpundit put it in an amusing way - the film ends with Christ being resurrected - how can you blame his death on anyone when he rose from the dead - the term, "no harm, no foul" should apply here. And it does. People do have free will, of course. So it's a theological point that is worth bringing up - we have free will to do the right thing, but we do things we should not do, anyway. Yesterday I read a comment which I thought was very insightful - the main difference between Judaism and Christianity is that Christians believe that Yeshua, the son of Miriam, of the House of David, is the Messiah, but Jews don't and are still waiting for the Messiah. I think it's richly ironic that the film critics who say that the movie is too violent are on record for loving Quentin Tarantino and "The Gladiator." It is rather painful to watch an innocent man being tortured to death, that's true. But it did happen. Happens all the time, unfortunately. All over the world, every day, since time immemorial. Yesterday, I had a haircut by a Vietnamese woman - the shop has a big, fat, smiling Buddha on an altar with fruits, incense and flowers. She went to Catholic school so we had a good time comparing the life of Buddha with the life of Christ. Buddha suffered, too, but not like Christ.