religion : MEL GIBSON'S "THE PASSION OF THE CHRIST" - BIBLICAL ACCURACY OR ARTISTIC LICENSE? [+] ballot by AMSearch created Fri Jan 07, 05 From an article in Tikkun by Matthew Fox: "Though Gibson tells us that people who object to his movie are actually objecting to the gospels, in fact the movie owes much more to the medieval practice of the Stations of the Cross (a practice of meditating on Jesus' trial, and his carrying of the cross to his crucifixion) and the visions of a nineteenth-century nun named Anne Catherine Emmerich than it does to the gospels. It is in the Stations of the Cross practice that we are told Jesus fell three times; that Veronica wiped his face with a veil, etc.—all scenes graphically depicted in the film. Mixing all of the gospels into one narrative, as Gibson does, is artistic license but it is not history. The gospels' bias against Jews stems from the fact that they were written after the fall of the Temple, long after Jesus' death, when serious tensions between Christian Jews and other Jewish sects were beginning to emerge. But the gospels themselves lack historicity—as in their muddling of the Pharisees and Sadducees and their sympathetic portrayal of Pontius Pilate,known historically to be one of Rome's most brutal governors. Gibson takes this one step further in portraying Pilate as a kind of saintly figure, with a deeply troubled conscience." "The Passion" is Biblically accurate "The Passion" is an artist's rendition at best Ballot #64055 : SEE RESULTS Comment: show your vote with comment?

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