Spit It Out
http://www.usatoday.com/life/movies/news/2004-02-16-passion-rating-kids_x.htm
"The R-rated movie portrays the final 12 hours of Jesus' life in graphic detail, including the crucifixion and a beating that lasts 45 minutes. But many parents and church leaders plan to have kids as young as 10 see the film, which opens Feb. 25, Ash Wednesday."
" First Family pastor Jerry Johnston. His Baptist church has rented out a half-dozen theaters in Kansas City, Kan., and has reserved auditoriums the night of Feb. 27 for children 11 and older."
"Scripture tells us that he was beaten to a pulp. I think seeing that on screen will be more powerful for kids than any sermon."
So much of adult art consists of an attempt to recapture the primal impact of experience on the tabula rasa of the innocent child. And here is a successful example of adult art speaking to the inner child in most persons. It reproduces, in the graphic medium of today, the full intent of christ-insanity pushed by the cult for some 2000 years. The central mystery of all christendom is indeed an engaging spectacle of sadomasochism. Come suffer/exult with role model Jesus as he is bondaged, humiliated, tortured through the Stations unto his erection of the Cross. And oh, by the way, kiddies, you are now enmeshed in the participation mystique of our pastoral hegemony.
It is time for Christians to admit that they are, and their religion is, INSANE. The sooner they renounce in toto this primitive, childish, magic-based religion and seek actual psychiatric growth, the sooner they can start attending to the reality of evil in the world, which is always more about real unwanted children starving to death than about some near-naked child-Surrogate being bound, flogged, pressed, nailed, slow suffocated and pierced to death within the sweet attendant gaze of his mother, on orders from his implacable father. What is an entertaining psychic melodrama for adults ought to be a felony to impress on vulnerable children, in any rational society, with additional penalties levied for lying to youngsters that this merry-go-round of sadism is the core of some purported ethical reality to which they are subservient.
Thanks, Mel, your rendition spiffies up the cult mythology to its intended psychic intensity, those original dayglo images as inculcated daily in "good christian children" from age four to age 18. Evil is as evil does, eh Mr. Everymel ?
And, Belter morons, when you are punished as you no doubt will be for your criminal votes en masse for your Prince of Darkness, your Prodigal Son, your Horhay Haesus himself, take a lesson: it won't be a sentence on you from God Almighty, but only the Fruit of your own most deliberate and culpable ignorance of mind, as you have acted it out like fools on the stage of real daily life.
And Pastor J. Johns ton, will you also be serving purple coolaid to the kiddies at your showings ?
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