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No, your argument misses the point. The movie was a classic passion play a very old tradition of acting out Jesus's last hours. it was not suposed to be the story of his life, or in any way a presentation of the doctrine he tought.

Legion, you mind getting rid of that URL underneath your name? It's screwing with the board in a fugly way.

As to the whole White Jesus thing, he was of Jewish descent; Jews of today would be a good enough model to go by for what he may have looked like considering their tenacity for marrying other Jews through the years. And he's not that far off, it's not like he's blatantly Irish or something...

i know i am going to type this one way but mean it a totally different one so bare with me cass..

what i find distasteful is people "praise" jesus everyday, but also are some of the same people who say crap like "jews are the scourge of the earth" or some other derogatory comment..

if jesus, was indeed jewish, then he needs to have his portrait represented correctly, to have any meaning at all.

cultures who alter the image are not only s**tting on the poor guy, but allowing their own personal biases to influence how they "view" jesus.

when america "whitened" him to our race, and cash i didn't say "lightened" him, i mean white, as in the jesus christ superstar image, it really IMO slapped him (jesus) in the face.

it would be like, 2000 years from now, martin luther king jr. was portrayed as white, or jewish, or maybe even (if we have left earth) some other race entirely..

i am not putting MLK in the same class as JC, but i think you understand my drift.

america (and i assume other countries) are seriously biased, and racist at heart, especially if they think JC looked anything like his portraits of today.

anyways, i hope that came out fairly coherent.

Jesus was a real person, perhaps not the son of God, but he was indeed crucified, which is a rather gruesome punishment, especially for a man who (as far as we know) did absolutely nothing to deserve it. If anyone wants to depict that suffering out of respect and belief in that man as a diety, I don't find anything wrong with it. If that suffering was too intense to watch or you don't respect the beliefs or opinions in the movie, save your eight bucks and stay at home.

I wouldn't take this kind of stance with most things, but since it is a movie, especially one where it was made to sell to only one audience, it warrants that defense.

I like the way you take this to be given, when it's questionable at best. Are you basing this off Josephus (or here)? His account can't be taken as 'fact' The only strong leg you have to stand on is the fact that there *is* a bible/church which have been around for so long, in which case I'd refer you to the hundreds of other religions/texts in the world and ask you to explain the difference.

this is NOT the discussion i wanted to invoke gents *sigh.....but this being the snarkpit, i should have known better....

Doc B.....