Don't stand anywhere near this guy, unless you're in a rubber suit!................
Posted on 04/23/2008 8:48:15 AM PDT by stockpirate
In his upcoming biography of Jesus, "Basic Instinct" director Paul Verhoeven will say that Jesus was probably the son of Mary and a Roman soldier who raped her during the Jewish uprising in Galilee, according to the Hollywood Reporter.
Verhoeven also claims that Christ was not betrayed by Judas Iscariot.
(Excerpt) Read more at foxnews.com ...
Isn’t this the same moron who screwed up the movie of Heinlein’s “Starship Troopers”??
“Showgirls”.
One of the worst movies ever made.
Don't stand anywhere near this guy, unless you're in a rubber suit!................
Hate to be you, come judgement day.
Paul Verhoeven - doing to the Bible what he did to Starship Troopers.
I guess he will be using "Life of Brian" as a primary source.
I know that Paul Verhoeven’s beliefs carry much more weight than mine because he has directed some movies and is therefore rich and famous.
YES!............
Gets ome popcorn.
He is no doubt an idiot Democrat.
He should stick to “Robocop.”
This is getting old.
Hey Paul - tell it to Jesus when you stand before him on Judgement Day, K?
Moron.
“Verhoeven, who turns 70 in July”
I fear for this man.
There’ll be a special place for this guy in hell.
“....claims to portray Jesus in the most realistic way...
“To the “hip”, progressive Left, realism = perversion, violence, and an overall cynical, worldly wise negative perspective.
Above all, there is the absolute predominance of overt sexuality behind all human motivations and thoughts.
“Verhoeven is a Catholic?”
Verhoeven is about as “Catholic” as my cat!
Verhoeven is a heretic, is what he is.
And I sure wouldn’t want to be in his shoes come judgment day.
Verhoeven, who turns 70 in July, has had a lifelong ambition to make a film about Jesus, based on scientific research.
70 is way to close to the grave make a living as a heretic.
And just what "scientific research" led him to this conclusion? The Roman soldier rape theory is hardly something new.
Well, that’s a new angle. The smarter you get, the dummer you become.
He has quite the imagination. Let’s just see how brave he really is... let him make a movie about Mohammed and his genetic heritage. Let’s make the plot really juicy... let’s say His mother was raped by a Jew. Yeah, that’s the ticket.
An actual Catholic would never assert that Mary was raped and that the result was Jesus. Disgusting.
I think Basic instinct got be his worst movie
Jesus’ mother was raped by a roman soldier? Gee... that’s queer.
With this latest bit ... if he hasn't crossed the line into apostasy, he's sure dancing along on it.
strange, wonder when his ‘thoroughly researched’ movie on pedophile murderer muhammad (shit be upon him)will be forthcoming....
No one would dare make a film attacking Islam or any religion other than Christianity. They would be severely attacked and accused of “hate speech”. Only Christians can be attacked.
No one would dare make a film attacking Islam or any religion other than Christianity. They would be severely attacked and accused of “hate speech”. Only Christians can be attacked.
Wow, a WHOLE 20 years, golly that's a lot of research. I wonder if during the 2,000+ years since the birth of Christ anyone has EVER thought about this...hmmm.
Paging Bill Donohue ...
“No one would dare make a film attacking Islam or any religion other than Christianity. They would be severely attacked and accused of “hate speech”. Only Christians can be attacked.”
Make a film, how about just make some cartoons.
Unfair slam at Life of Brian.
He didn't screw it up. He intended to mock Heinlein in the movie. Although why he would do this is anybody's guess. People will be reading Heinlein long after this second-rater is forgotten.
He’s just a lonely, old, forgotten film guy that no one remembers and he’s looking for publicity and attention.
Interesting. Sounds like he's intending to mock Someone else, now.
It may be BS, but he didn’t make it up.
1) We have two stories preserved in supplements to the Mishnah called the Tosefta (as well as in other parallel rabbinic texts but primarily see Tosefta Chullin 2:22-24) that refer to “Yeshu ben Pantera” (with alternate spelling variations). The first involves the famous Rabbi Eliezer ben Hyrcanus who lived in the late 1st and early 2nd century AD. Rabbi Eliezer relates a teaching in the “name of Yeshu ben Pantera” that he heard on the streets of Sepphoris from one Jacob of Kefar Sikhnin. Eliezer himself had been arrested for “heresy” and some have suspected he might have been sympathetic to the Nazarenes. The second story also involves Jacob of Kefar Sikhnin who attempts to heal a certain Rabbi Eleazar ben Dama of a snakebite in the name of “Yeshu ben Pantera.”
Although Maier and a few others have doubted these references are to Jesus of Nazareth, most experts are convinced that they are. Since both of these texts appear to use the designation “Yeshu ben Pantera” in a descriptive rather than a slanderous or polemical way they offer us evidence that Jesus was remembered as “son of Panthera” in the region of Galilee, and even on the streets of Sepphoris, in the early 2nd century. Indeed, Richard Bauckham argues quite persuasively that this Jacob of Kefar Sikhnin might well be James, son (or grandson?) of Jude the brother of Jesus, otherwise known to us as a prominent leader in the Galilean churches (Jude and the Relatives of Jesus, pp. 114-119).
2. The Greek philosopher Celsus relates in polemical work against the Christians preserved by the Christian theologian Origen that he had found it “written” that Jesus was the son of a Roman soldier named Pantera (Contra Celsum 1. 69). This text dates to the late 2nd century. Origen replies that the story was concocted by those who refused to believe that Jesus had no human father and was conceived by the Holy Spirit.
3. The 4th century Christian apologist Epiphanius seems to take the designation “Jesus son of Panthera” seriously in that he argues the name is actually a nickname for Jacob, the father of Joseph, husband of Mary. So rather than denying it is part of the family tradition he tries to explain it within that context.
Brian: You mean you were raped??!!
Brian's Mum: Well.... at first
I read his wiki entry and got an idea where he got ideas from. I guess you have to cut this guy some slack. He was living it.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Verhoeven
Another, uneducated, Hollywood film person trying to make himself more important than he really is......
Loved the book.
The movie was a ratty kids play compared to the book.
Guess we’re getting fed to the lions again.
Jesus knows who He is and who His Father is. This garbage is nothing new. It is the same old antichrist hooey that was used by the (religious) enemies of Christ at the time of his death and before. You would think that in this age of mass fruitcakism on the Internet, demonized kooks could come up with something original, like a UFO scheme that reveals all humans to be reincarnated dogs from Zeta ubetcha. Their god could be a reincarnated body crab from an alternate universe.
Since mohammad only raped 6 year olds, guess he had no children and not worth a movie for this guy.
Just another leftist attack on the values and beliefs of this country. It is part of their overall plan to undermine the strengths of America in order to destroy it.
We have lionized Maya Angelou for poetry that doesn’t rhyme, and artists for art that is not art. In fact, as usual, they have conned the American people into paying for it. Rap music is not music even if it does have a beat. It is like dancing to african drums.
It is all part of the advancement of moral and intellectual relativism where nothing is right or wrong, good or bad. An anything goes society loses cohesion and is easier to destroy.
I have a feeling the epilogue to Paul's biography will have him residing in an especially warm place being raped by Roman soldiers who crucified Jesus.
Now I dare him to cast Mohammad in a negative light.
How could I have been so blind.....(snicker)
Let us remember, “Because, when they knew God, they glorified Him not as God, neither were thankful, but became vain in their imaginations, and their foolish heart was darkened. Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools,” (Romans 1:21-22).
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