The Passion of The Christ part II

So one Christian pastor views the story in "Hotel Rwanda" more Christian (my words, not his) than "The Passion of the Christ". I am going to try and add a link to the story - if possible - for anyone to make up their own mind.

www.christianitytoday.com/leaders/newsletter/2005/cln50214.html

Now, being that I am not all that intricately aware of how this vast universe of the Internet works, I don't know if this will work. If not, check out the article "The Passion of Hotel Rwanda" written by Brian McLaren on the Christianity Today website.

My own thoughts are still being sorted out. I have read most of the piece, and I concur with most of what Pastor McLaren says, but I don't know if he actually gets it. Any good movie, i.e. a movie that centers on what is good, and right, and true about this life, transmits the same values Christ taught about 2000 years ago in a tiny sliver of land controlled by the now defunct Roman Empire. The man Don Cheadle portrays in the movie, the man who saved all the people from death, probably wouldn't have done what he did without the influence of Christ upon the world. Christ showed all man HOW to care for his fellow human being.

I don't get it how anyone who calls themselves by the name of Christ, could not approve of the message "The Passion of The Christ" depicted. In my view - and I saw the film seven times between its release date on Lent to Easter Sunday - it showed the suffering Christ went through because of mankinds inability to care for his fellow man, his inability to care for anyone outside of himself, his utter propensity to disobey everything God ever said man was to be in caring for the 'least of these'.

"The Passion of The Christ", in my view, is the progenitor of all these other films depicting 'Christ-like' behavior.