Army choose twisted movie over "The Passion" for our military in Iraq.

AN Iraqi theater previously owned by Saddam Hussein reopening for our U.S. military. The Army Air Force Exchange Service chose Paramount's Ashley Judd-Samuel L. Jackson-Andy Garcia filmo "Twisted" for the debut

>... "Passion", which I have seen, is an experience that helps most people deepen their faith. You posts are a mean ridicule of people of faith. See "Dawn of the Dead" - you wouldn't get "The Passion of The Christ"

"Gibson has also claimed that the book on which much of the film is based, written by the 19th-Century German nun and mystic Anne Catherine Emmerich, actually fell from his bookshelf one day, all but begging him to read it."

I am a person
of faith, and I'm still pissed off
that Passion fans use

this weirdo movie
to fracture fellowship with
Christians who believe

Scripture should be based
on Scripture, and not mystics.
But, hey, that's just me.

(If a prostitute
got, say, the Gospel of Mark
tattooed on her chest,

would we as Christians
"deepen our faith" by having
sex with the hooker?!)

And don't just dismiss
this Dawn of the Dead movie.
One of the few things

Evangelicals
and Catholics agree on
is that Salvation

is available
to all -- Catholics believe
it requires good works,

Evangelicals
believe it just requires faith
in Jesus. Ah, but

Calvinists believe
something quite different, and
zombie films built on

the mythos out of
"The Night of the Living Dead"
can be seen as texts

of the "Limited
atonement" doctrine within
Calvinism, the

second most sweeping
form of Christianity
in world history.

By a twist of fate,
first Calvinism displaced
Catholicism

on the global stage,
and now on the movie screens . . .
Life is just too weird . . .

(Calvinists believe
the Unsaved can not be Saved
by their works or faith,

and are like zombies
in this mythos, existing
only as a "trial"

for the non-zombies,
the "elect" . . .) The film business
is a strange business.

I am a person of faith, and I'm still pissed off that Passion fans use
this weirdo movie to fracture fellowship with Christians who believe

Scripture should be based on Scripture

Glad to hear you're a person of faith. If one (as in 1, as in just above zero) people come to know Christ as a result of the movie then the movie is successful. I doubt that Gibson is fracturing fellowship. He made a movie. Your reaction to it is akin to the disciples running to Christ and breathlessly telling him: "Master, we saw a man preaching and casting out demons in your name, but he wasn't ONE OF US."

I'm sure, since you're a person of faith, you remember what Christ said to them....

>I doubt that Gibson is fracturing fellowship. He made a movie. ... Your reaction to it is akin to the disciples running to Christ and breathlessly telling him: "Master, we saw a man preaching and casting out demons in your name..."

I said his fans were,
not that Gibson was. And I
am not complaining

that I've seen demons
cast out in His name, rather
that I've seen Christians

get marginalized
("cast out") by other Christians
because of this film.

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