Reply #2: Great movie all the way around - scripting, cinematography,

[Rabrrrrrr]

directing, the whole shebang.

Also a great story - I really liked it, and it has given me much food for thought for years, ever since it came out. And I remember all the brouhaha when it came out, too. Insane!

I don't know why people get so fucking bent out of shape if they feel their faith is being "maligned". Fuckwads. The conservative, fundy and Catholic assholes who protested Last Temptation and are now protesting the DaVinci Code; and the liberal assholes who protested The Passion of the Christ... and of course, the majority of those assholes never saw any of the movies that they protested. Dipshits.

For God's sake people, grow up.

I just don't know what to say beyond that.

One thing I loved about Last Temptation is that Jesus tells Judas that because Judas loves him so much, he has to be the one to betray Jesus. Great stuff to think about! And also the temptation itself - incredibly done, well thought, and I think totally plausible. Not in the Gospels, no; but also not not in the Gospels. Who knows? I don't. But it's fun to think about - especially if we believe (at least I do, as a Christian) in the full humanity of Jesus, then yeah, sexual temptation, marital temptation, etc. must all have been there. Hell, there's a good bet that, if he was fully human, he actually HAD sex. Might even have had gay sex. If Jesus was God on earth, to experience all things and all suffering that humans go through, I would think sex would have to have been part of it.

It's funny how so many of the assholes who go apeshit over anything "non-Gospel" about Jesus don't seem to mind the people who make Jesus out to be the warrior, fighter, strongman, etc., but go apeshit if anyone suggests that he had sex, or might even have seen a naked woman or touched a breast, even his mother's when he was a baby.

Why do people go so apeshit about the possible sexuality of Jesus? Why are so many people so fucking obsessed with sex as bad, anyway?

God, I hate this country and my fellow Christians sometimes.