Posts Tagged with ‘God’

The Passion of the Christ

“My initial impressions mainly centred around two elements in the film. The violence and the controversy I recall the film inciting when it was initially released — that being the Jews were responsible for Jesus’ crucifixion. What follows is what I could gather, again, from watching the first half. And, for the record, I intend to watch the second half, soon. It’s just 3 and a half hours to sit while watching a movie is a tad tedious. This ain’t no Lord of the Rings — even though some of those characters looked like they came from Middle Earth…”

American Fascists

“Hypermasculinity becomes a way to compensate, especially since the unspoken truth is that Christian men are required to have a personal loving relationship with a male deity and surrender their will to a male-dominated authoritarian church. Submission to a church authority, after all is a potent form of emasculation.”