Reply #41: Catholicism is based on that blood-bath [View All]

[Tinoire]

Jesus said, "Very truly, I tell you, unless you eat the flesh of the son of man and drink his blood, you have no life in you. Those who eat my flesh and drink my blood have eternal life, and I will raise them up on the last day; for my flesh is true food and my blood is true drink." (John 6:53-54)

"Eat my flesh" - my broken, bruised, lacerated flesh... "drink my blood" - my flow of my life extracted by thorn and nail and spear.

Yea, dogs are round about Me; a company of evildoers encircle Me; they have pierced My hands and feet - I can count all My bones - they stare and gloat over Me; they divide My garments among them, and for My raiment they cast lots." (Psalm 22:16-18)


You may not like it, you may disagree but that is the Catholic faith, based on the sacrifice of the Lamb of God, THE Lamb prepared throughout the Old Testament. It's why Catholics celebrate Lent and pay particular attention to the suffering of Good Friday, reverentially honor the 12 stations of the cross where Christ suffered so much to redeem humanity, and why they partake of Holy Communion where the host is transubstantiated into the Body of Christ. It's not the happy-go-lucky story about a good story-teller that Hollywood chose to tell.

The redemption was a blood-bath. You may not believe the story itself but that's the Catholic story and Mel told it faithfully.

To this day, I haven't gone to see it because I knew of the blood-bath from the Bible. Didn't need Mel Gibson to remind me of how the Lamb of God was slaughtered.

Mel Gibson, like billions of Catholics, believes Jesus was the promised Lamb. So yes... reverential. I will never understand wht that depiction of the "divine" slaughter founding the Catholic faith makes so many people uncomfortable.

"I am the Lamb of God who takes away the sins of the world", He said. Surely people didn't expect a gentle, poetic death?