[lbo-talk] RE: Snuffed Jesus

[Carl Remick]

>From: Jon Johanning <jjohanning at igc.org>
>
>Apparently, Gibson's vision takes the average Catholic image of Jesus a 
>step further in the bloody direction and thus a step further away from the 
>image that Americans (X-tian and non-X-tian) have been used to. This is 
>partly why we outsiders are having trouble understanding the "gore-fest," 
>"Jesus snuff film" think. It's just a kind of devotional thing that is 
>foreign to us.

Reminds me of what George Santayana, I believe, said about T.S. Eliot's 
brand of Christianity, that it was "subterranean without being profound."

Carl

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