| Ash Wednesday |
[Feb. 25th, 2004|08:40 am] |
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So today is my Grandma Grabowski's funeral at Saint Lawrence in Utica. It is going to be a sad day, but at least everything will be over. I won't have to deal with any family ever again.
One thing that really pissed me off today was my parents ignorant hype for the "Passion" movie directed by Mel Gibson that is hitting theatres today, appropriately for the mark of lent.
I think that I don't get so angry that a religeous story is made into a movie, I get angry that someone like Mel Gibson ( who in my opinion, has a greater importance than Christ in the American public) is directing this movie. I guess I just don't like Hollywood and religion mixing, or one becoming confused with the other.
I was reading a review today and they were saying that there were a lot of movie "tie-in" items that they are selling to promote the movie. One of these "tie-in" items are replica nails from the cross. WHAT THE Hell? I mean, hey, can we get a little more sacreligious? One more thing to market for the hungry American consumer.
My parents really like Mel Gibson because he is a devout Traditional Catholic. They think that he is a good man because he "likes God".
I think that if a Passion Story has to be rated R in a theatre, it's not saying much for the movie. Yeah, so the true story IS full of a lot of gore and violence, but that's reality. If these "CHRISTIANS" can't let their children watch the "realism" that reflects the BOOK that they shove in their face everyday ( which by the way is jam packed with violent and gorey language) then, what is it saying about Christians?
If people want to Sugar coat religion, then fine, but it's one more reason not to take them seriously. How can you eliminate children from a movie that tells a story that they hear every Easter?
All in all, maybe I should be grateful that children aren't seeing this movie. Maybe I should encourage their innocent faith, and not let it get trampled by the faddish pseudoreligion that Hollywood promotes.
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