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CatholicCritter -> RE: :: Jesus Was Son of Mary and Roman Rapist (4/24/2008 12:16:20 PM)
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Mark Shea posted on this yesterday ... http://markshea.blogspot.com/2008_04_01 ... 3450562157 quote:
Remember: One good rule of thumb whenever one encounters a "real Jesus" who is radically at odds with the picture offered by the ordinary Tradition, Scripture and magisterial teaching of the Church is to examine the dominant fixations of one's own age and see how much of a Rorschach ink blot test that new "real Jesus" is. This "real Jesus" is, like all the others, a reflection of our Paris Hiltonized culture. The difference between Verhoeven and the ancient Jews who first concocted the slur is that the ancient Jews were of sound enough mind to know that the slur, if true, destroyed Jesus' messianic claims, while Verhoeven is so debased that he has no interest in whether Jesus was Messiah, because he just wants to associate him and the Blessed Virgin with a little sexy scandal so he can make money off the titillation. The ancient Jews who invented the slur were higher and nobler men--and therefore capable of graver sin when they lied about Christ. Verhoeven is, by comparison, a critter barely able to think above the gutter and his sin is the intellectual equivalent of spray painting "SEX RULZ!" on an icon.
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