[pseudo-justin]

The Left is absotultely terrified of this movie. Notice how many of the quotes relate "What I fear is..."

My favorite, though, is this one

"What makes the unfolding saga of "The Passion" hard to ignore is not so much Mr. Gibson's playacting fisticuffs but the extent to which his combative marketing taps into larger angers. The "Passion" fracas is happening not in a vacuum but in an increasingly divided America fighting a war that many on both sides see as a religious struggle."

Yes, Mel is firing one hell of a shot across the bow in the culture war.

[pseudo-justin]

The same people who shout "pluralism" in matters liturgical and theological are now condemning the movie for causing divisions, i.e. increasing the plurality of views available to the popular mind about Jesus.

The scholars are pissed off that Mel is about to break the sovereignty of skeptical exegesis over the popular mind, and restore our thinking to the Gospel according the Matthew, Mark, Luke and John, as opposed to the Gospel according to the academic, exegetical establishment, the Gospel according to Sr. Mary Boys.

[Antoninus]

Yes, Mel is firing one hell of a shot across the bow in the culture war.

Actually, I think Braveheart, The Patriot, and Signs were shots across the bow. The Passion of the Christ is a full broadside.