Posted on 02/28/2004 12:25:49 AM PST by kattracks
Edited on 05/26/2004 5:19:46 PM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]
One doesn't doubt that you may have been educated by some power hacks in habits, or priests who used the crucifix to club as opposed to edify. You may have even been educated by those in that same Catholic church-based political class, as Gibson termed them in his interview with O'Reilly last week, who are even now trying to deny that the Pope himself declared, "It is as it was."
Set the humaness of those clearly less-than-perfect people aside. Imagine them as the priests who are portrayed in the film. As the admitted agnostic that you are, perhaps you are allowing yourself to see God only through their eyes.
I invite you to set aside your agnosticism for some objectivism and see where you come out after viewing the film. See the film with a perspective of God far different from the one with which you were educated as well as with a fresh set of eyes.
You will be edified, I guarantee it.
Before we get too comfortable in our hair-shirt, please realize that if you are a regenerated Christian you are no longer an enemy of God: "Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends." (John 15:13).
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