I don’t have any strong feelings about other people’s reactions to Mel Gibson’s new movie, 
and I didn’t plan to blog about it at all, but the building where I work shares a parking lot with a Baptist church, and they’ve got a big poster up on the wall near their front door with a picture similar to this one, and it says, ‘Dying was his reason for living.’ How messed up is that?
Maybe he lived to teach us about something, or set an example? Or how about this quote from John 10:10: ‘I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly.’
Bottom line? Thousands if not millions of people have died horrible, painful, drawn-out, torturous deaths, often at the hands of the church itself (he was probably lucky the Sanhedrin turned him over to Pilate), but if he was who they claim he was, it’s a big deal. I’ve phrased it that way on purpose because I know Jesus never laid claim to divinity and he did tell his disciples that with faith, the least among them could do everything he did and more. And all that crap about original sin and a new Adam came straight from Paul, the misogynist epileptic psycho whose best moment was when he recognized that women look much cuter in hats than men.
I need to go back and read the New Testament again.
I won’t be going to see the movie because the images I already have in my head from the website and the reviews are straining my psychological tolerance for witnessing human suffering.
If you feel strongly, as I do, that people shouldn’t be tortured and/or put to death, you might want to take your ticket money and mail it to Amnesty International.