Does anybody else remember the movie 'The Last Temptation of Christ'? The protests?

[sinkingfeeling]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Last_Temptation_of_Christ_(film)#Controversy

I remember the theater in France being fire-bombed.

"Pat Robertson condemned the film as ‘an offence to a hundred million Christians. It ridicules and blasphemes the faith that we have all committed our lives to'.

http://www.moviemoviesite.com/articles/films/specific/last_temptation_of_christ_controversy/the_protests.htm

[tama]

1. Good movie

and good book.

[jorno67]

2. When it was to be shown on HBO in the town where I went to college...

the local baptist church, commonly referred to as "Fort God", actually protested so much that the cable company blocked out HBO when it was to be aired.

[aikoaiko]

3. I saw it on opening night in NYC at the Ziegfeld and there were massive protests, but I felt safe.

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Fortunately, no one hunted down Martin Scorcese.

I remember one old lady yelling at me while waiting in line that I was going to burn in hell if I saw the movie.

I said that if I were going to burn in hell it most likely would be for much more worse sins already committed.

edited to add:

I love the internetz. I found a picture of that night.

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[Warpy]

4. I had read the book in high school

and found it rather innocuous but beautifully written, even in translation from Greek. I didn't bother with the film as so many films based on books turn out to be letdowns.

I do remember the sour faced pickets in Boston, thumbing their rosaries and looking like exactly the type of angry people I've always tried to avoid. I also remember some violence at theaters elsewhere here in the US, worse overseas.

Your point is well taken. People don't like the rote learning of irrational beliefs questioned in any way, and it doesn't really matter which irrational beliefs they are. It usually ends badly.

[HiPointDem]

5. I remember those protests, & I remember thinking there was something off about that whole

affair too.

[niyad]

6. I remember it very well. went to see what my local crazies were doing (had no desire to see

the film itself) and took great delight in pointing out to the reporters and camera crew that the protestors could not even spell what they were protesting.

[HopeHoops]

7. I remember the protests, but I never saw the movie. They protested "Jesus Christ Superstar",...

..., pardon the connection, but JESUS H. FUCKING CHRIST! What the hell is wrong with people. If they're that sure about their religion, why would anything another person says or performs have any impact? The young-earth sorts think God put dinosaur bones on the planet to test their faith. Can't they take a little criticism or are they that unsure of their own "faith". The sames true for Jews, Muslims, Protestant v. Christian shit, and every other religion. You have to be pretty damn shallow and insecure to get upset about such things.

Oh, and rMoney - it's okay to have a beer - just not with me. I'll save my beer time for Obama, thank you.

[LadyHawkAZ]

8. Oh yes. I was beginning to wonder if anyone else remembered that. n/t

[banned from Kos]

9. Did protestors murder anyone?

I don't recall.

[sinkingfeeling]

10. No, but they did try in France.

[Bake]

11. I'm sure Robertson would have liked to have killed someone over it.

Religious authorities always want to do that.

(No sarcasm intended)

Bake

[backscatter712]

12. Yet they loved Passion of the Christ, aka Jesus Chainsaw Massacre! n/t

[treestar]

13. Yes, though we need a debate point with right wingers

They will say nobody killed anybody or threatened anybody with death and that's hard to argue against. My best argument so far is that circumstances are different. Say there was a threat of Libyan imperialism over the US and we really had some reason to fear our stability - then we might similarly cling harder to the religion and make more of it.

The making fun of the religion aspect isn't the only thing going on - that's what the right tries to reduce it to.

Muslim culture does still contain a lot of what we would have long ago abandoned (polygamy, women's rights) - the problem is the freepers and such thinking that means they can feel superior and claim we are "better" and thus entitled to attack Muslim countries. People should not lose site of that's why the freepers enjoy things like this happening.

[sinkingfeeling]

15. I agree. However, fire bombing a theater in France could have resulted in death.

[OriginalGeek]

14. I didn't see it in the theater

but I rented it from the video store as soon as it was available. I had to put down a $90.00 deposit because people kept renting them and destroying them.

Pinheads.