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• Re: the last temptation of christ (Score:2)

  by davorg (18)

  Been a while since I watched the film or read the book, but I definitely remember having to pass a picket line of mad christians on my way into the cinema.
  
  As I recall, their major problem was with the sequence where Jesus imagines what his life could have been like if he had ignored his religious calling. He imagines marrying Mary and one scene shows him having sex with her.
  
  I never understood why this annyed the christians so much as (as far as I can recall) nowhere in the bible does it say that Jesus was e
  • Re: the last temptation of christ (Score:1)

    by rjbs (4671)

    ...but if we take it as read that Jesus was celibate and unmarried, it doesn't matter. The movie doesn't say he was married or uncelibate!

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    rjbs
    • Re: the last temptation of christ (Score:2)

      by davorg (18) <dave@dave.org.uk> on 2006.05.05 6:45 (#47589) Homepage Journal

      Oh absolutely. The film only says that on the cross he might have considered what it would have been like to have been married and uncelibate.
      
      So, yes, like you I find it really hard to see what the christians find so upsetting in this film.
      

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