You were manipulated by evil if you saw C. Browns Great Pumpkin

[Mick Knox]

thats about how lame these attacks on the Passion are..

If you dont like it dont see it... Its a movie.. some will read into it whatever they want.. some wont like it.. some will.. but jeez.. to pretend it is an assualt personnally is stupid... simply out of some disgust for religion...

Whats next? Slamming Jews, Muslims, and Budhist? Kick an old lady who has a cross on her necklace?

Intolerance by agnostics is as disgusting as Religous Right Falwell Bs..


Those types of people are the SAME... put on a hood and parade around burning crosses or walk around slamming christians...

Yeah.. you have your freedom of speech to do it.. but IMO you are
Two sides of the SAME coin..

[Tom Kitten]

1. Give it a rest...

Equating people who slam a movie with the Klan is pretty stupid.

[Mick Knox]

4. Sorry.. I dislike intolerance...

I dont like * bashing gays..
I dont like DU bashing christians
I dont like the clan bashing minorities
I dont like Freepers bashing muslims..

I fail to see the difference with the intolerance of different peoples beliefs..

Everyone should be able to do what they dig..

You know FREEDOM!

Yeah that.

Maybe both parties are forgetting now.

[opiate69]

6. "Everyone should be able to do what they dig.."

Tell that to the Christian nutjobs who insist on coming onto my private property every weekend to try and sell me on their fairy tale. Or, the ones who can't keep their beliefs out of my government...

[maggrwaggr]

2. it's. just. publicity. for. a. MOVIE!!!

A movie: a product made by a large corporation with the intent of having many gazillions of people spend money to see it.

It's not a work of art, it's a business.

Maybe because I work in the film business, I have a different (more real) point of view, but GOOD GOD I've never seen so much free publicity for a film ever in my life.

It's gonna make a ton of money and now there's gonna be sequels. You just watch. "Let's make something vaguely controversial, but still very conservative, maybe something about Moses this time!"

[Generic Other]

3. The company I keep?

The company I keep does not burn crosses on the lawns of neighbors. Neither do they covet the widow's retirement check and feed her rightwing lies in order to enrich themselves. The company I keep did not invoke the name of god in an effort to justify warmongering. The company I keep does not molest the little children who are entrusted to their care. The company I keep does not condemn the poor and praise the rich. The company I keep does not believe they have the right to judge the actions of others while demanding that their own actions never be held up to judgment. The company I keep does not attempt to control the behavior of others when they cannot control their own behavior.

Who among us is known by the company he keeps?

on edit: This post in response to the comment now edited out of the original post. "Be proud of the company you keep."

[TrogL]

5. Have you seen it?

Have you done research on the historical Christ? Are you aware of the issues?

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