Religious people everywhere

[Tank]

I recommend that everyone here watches Mel Gibson's "The Passion of The Christ" starring Jim Caviezel.  I am fairly confident that it will have you falling to your knees and begging God's forgiveness.

Ned, you can not be serious? That film is main stream 'torture porn' no better than Hostel or the SAW series. The subject matter may be the demise of the one JC but the film is just a bass appeal to the emotions of the audience. I've seen it and I felt sympathy for the character of JC as I would anybody subjected to treatment like that. I have been a supporter and contributor to Amnesty International since I was about 20.

[The Magic Pudding]

I recommend that everyone here watches Mel Gibson's "The Passion of The Christ" starring Jim Caviezel.  I am fairly confident that it will have you falling to your knees and begging God's forgiveness.

Why is that Ned?
Wasn't it Jesus’ plan all along to get himself tortured and nailed to a cross.
Lots of people suffer as bad or worse with no say in the matter.
Is god asking for forgiveness for whooping cough, small pox or polio?
People cured these things by asking and answering questions the religious would have left unspoken.

[Martin TK]

I recommend that everyone here watches Mel Gibson's "The Passion of The Christ" starring Jim Caviezel.  I am fairly confident that it will have you falling to your knees and begging God's forgiveness.

Ned, Ned, Ned....   That movie was little more than an attempt by Mel's strange brand of Catholicism, to a) make money, and b) guilt/scare/appeal to emotion to get people back in the pews.  It was also as Tank mentioned little more than a gore-fest, and while I did feel sympathy for JC in the movie, I also feel sympathy for all victims of the slash and gash/torture movies that I sometimes allow my wife to talk me into watching (which is not too often, I admit.)

I also see where you say something about following god's commandments, are you talking about the "ten commandments" of the old testament?  My argument to that is that most of the ten aren't actually "laws" but religious edicts, and the ones that might be seen as religious "laws" actually mirror our own non-religious laws.

I have been reading Hitchens "Essential readings for non-believers" which is an anthology of writings on the subject of religion and it's affects on mankind over history, there are some really good pieces in there, I recommend you read it.  MOST atheists either read or have read the bible, but very few theists read anything written against the bible, or which defends the atheist positions.  I've often wondered why that is.  Any comments?

[Davin]

I recommend that everyone here watches Mel Gibson's "The Passion of The Christ" starring Jim Caviezel.  I am fairly confident that it will have you falling to your knees and begging God's forgiveness.

Oh come on Ned, the movie wasn't that bad.

[Tank]

I recommend that everyone here watches Mel Gibson's "The Passion of The Christ" starring Jim Caviezel.  I am fairly confident that it will have you falling to your knees and begging God's forgiveness.

Oh come on Ned, the movie wasn't that bad.

[Thumpalumpacus]

I recommend that everyone here watches Mel Gibson's "The Passion of The Christ" starring Jim Caviezel.  I am fairly confident that it will have you falling to your knees and begging God's forgiveness.

Why, is this one of those rare instances where the movie is better than the book?

[Kandlelight]

It infuriates me how they think that they are right and look at you like they pity you for not being religious because they think you're going to hell. It would be nice to know that I'm not alone in this world full of religious people.

You are NOT alone.  It pisses me off when religious people say "I'm sorry" when I tell them I don't believe in a god.  I usually respond that I find their comment very disrespectful because I don't say to them "I'm sorry" when I find out that they believe in something that is make believe.

[Ned]

I recommend that everyone here watches Mel Gibson's "The Passion of The Christ" starring Jim Caviezel.  I am fairly confident that it will have you falling to your knees and begging God's forgiveness.

Why, is this one of those rare instances where the movie is better than the book?

Nothing could better a book which contains the message of salvation.

[elliebean]

I recommend that everyone here watches Mel Gibson's "The Passion of The Christ" starring Jim Caviezel.  I am fairly confident that it will have you falling to your knees and begging God's forgiveness.

Why, is this one of those rare instances where the movie is better than the book?

Nothing could better a book which contains the message of salvation.

Nothing but the absence of a need for either.

Suits me, anyway.

[Thumpalumpacus]

I recommend that everyone here watches Mel Gibson's "The Passion of The Christ" starring Jim Caviezel.  I am fairly confident that it will have you falling to your knees and begging God's forgiveness.

Why, is this one of those rare instances where the movie is better than the book?

Nothing could better a book which contains the message of salvation.

What's weird is that this superlative book didn't make me do what you claim the movie will do.

That doesn't compute.

[Ned]

What might fail to come across on the page is brought spectacularly to life by Caviezel's spellbinding performance.

[Davin]

What might fail to come across on the page is brought spectacularly to life by Caviezel's spellbinding performance.

So you're not against magic spells?

[Ned]

What might fail to come across on the page is brought spectacularly to life by Caviezel's spellbinding performance.

So you're not against magic spells?

Man, Harry Potter was just a movie... with Daniel Radcliffe!

[Reginus]

I recommend that everyone here watches Mel Gibson's "The Passion of The Christ" starring Jim Caviezel.  I am fairly confident that it will have you falling to your knees and begging God's forgiveness.

Oh come on Ned, the movie wasn't that bad.

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[The Magic Pudding]

Man, Harry Potter was just a movie... with Daniel Radcliffe!

Blasphemer!
Harry Potter was many books, many mega movies, millions of Potter themed parties and much more.