re: #204 freetoken

Oh look… there’s going to be another “Jesus” film… but this one is going to be a bit different:

The Paul Verhoeven Jesus Film is to go ahead

There’s no doubt that it would be controversial to put this particular tradition in the film. I still remember Christians picketing cinema’s when Scorsese’s Last Temptation of Christ came out in 1987 because it depicted Jesus hallucinating about having sex with Mary Magdalene ( a scene most of the critics misunderstood).

I remember the BBC getting into hot water for even reporting the Roman soldier tradition in a documentary called The Virgin Mary that I was on in 2002 (see further Mary). The difficulty is that the vast majority of Christians have not heard about this piece of gossip that goes back at least to the second century and possibly also to the first.

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Assuming this film will indeed be made and released, we can readily imagine the outcry that will occur. There will be howls.

And it end with Jesus resurrecting as RoboCop IV. I’m sure Verhoeven will also be totally aghast at all the free publicity he will get.
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