SKETCHES FROM WHEREVER

here are, what i thought to be, some interesting quotes from today's Debating The Passion article found in the Dallas Morning News.

-"the passion is excessively, obsessively violent, much like other Gibson films. And that's ironic, given that much of Jesus' message and legacy concern the importance of peace and love." -Chris Vognar

-"To me the heartbeat of Christianity is in the Sermon on the Mount, but that gets nanoseconds of screen time as Gibson grinds on with his grotesque 19th century Catholic contemplation of The Stations of the Cross." -Jane Sumner

-"...the obsession with extreme physical sensations. it also reflects the media-made creatures we have become: we have to see something on-screen to make it real to us." -Tom Maurstad

-"Viewing it is not a healing experience. I am very much afraid that it's on-screen carnage could easily result in off-screen carnage as well as intolerance rather than peace." -Philip Wuntch

-"If only the film played less like a parade of pain and more like a plea for love and forgiveness." -Philip Wuntch

so lets make Jesus out to be a modern day hippie and make sure Gibson gets the blame for the "excessive" violence. we'll also make sure that our idea of angels are those cute naked babies with harps(just tossed that one in). i think some people are going to be a little surprised with the second coming. peace and love was never that easy.

so i think i am done talking about
the passion until provoked to do otherwise.