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The Effect of "The Passion"?
Just curious. What, if any, effect will Mel Gibson's new film "The Passion of the Christ" have on evangelical prosletyzing? If it is as emotionally powerful and as "believable" as people who've seen it seem to think it is, will it convince even more people that the story is indeed true and encourage them "to give their lives to Christ" as evangelical leaders certainly hope it will?
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02-16-2004, 04:06 PM
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When has a movie ever convinced anyone that the events portrayed are true?
I think the evangelicals are hoping that it provokes an emotional response that leaves the viewers putty in their hands, after which they can do their manipulation. |
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02-16-2004, 04:16 PM
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02-16-2004, 04:46 PM
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Toto, That's my point. people respond emotionally to what they see. It's awfully hard to make an emotionally compelling case for a "mythic Christ" for example.
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I don't know, how about Luke Skywalker? There's sort of a religion around Him.
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02-16-2004, 06:07 PM
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I agree. I think the evangelical Christians will see this as an opportunity to work on people's emotions.
A Christian friend of mine wants me to go with her to see the movie. I declined. Did you read where Mel Gibson thinks his wife, who is a Christian (Episcopalian, I think) may go to Hell because she's not Catholic? Unbelievable! It's bad enough that we heathens are going to Hell, but now Christians are going to Hell too, eh? Boomeister |
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02-16-2004, 06:57 PM
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But that's not on topic and I don't know of Mel Gibson had this in mind. |
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02-16-2004, 07:50 PM
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I'm reminded me of someone my mother once knew who was very literal-minded in an odd way. He believed that Star Wars was real history that had happened to its creators in some previous reincarnations. And he also believed that about Close Encounters of the Third Kind, which came out at about the time that the first Star Wars movie did.
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02-17-2004, 12:11 AM
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I have had people quote JFK as if it was history.
The problem is it will support the history that many want to have been true. --J.D. |
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