This is a slightly modified version of an email I sent to my parents and sister. All of them are a good deal more religious than yours truly, but here s my take on the film and the ministry of Christ I do not plan on seeing The Passion. The movie, I have been told, and feel free to correct me, starts with the betrayal and for the remaining balance of the film, aside from a few brief flashbacks, is the corporeal scourging of Jesus. Jesus’ physical torture is not the message of Christianity. Christianity was a religion of the underclass, of the oppressed, of the beaten down.

Using special cameras, Getty photographs the president’s usually-invisible advisor If you’ve been paying to the ongoing return of the Enlightenment, you know the name Richard Dawkins. Dawkins is a famous evolutionary biologist who, of late, has been spreading the message of atheism. Dawkins’ primary book that has been the subject of a great many counter-opinions is “The God Delusion”. Lauren and I both noticed that RD was doing a book-signing at BookPeople downtown ( although I’m very thankful to live in a town where BookPeople exists ) and we resolved to attend…but then we found out there would be an ancillary lecture that evening at my alma mater.

I’m a little confused by Elisjsha Dicken being called a “Good Samaritan” e.g.: Pictured: Good Samaritan, 22, who killed Indiana mall gunman after he shot (yet another) would be mass-shooter in an American “soft-target” venue (here, a mall).

That parable, as recounted in the gospel of Luke was about, as I read it, a Samaritan finding a man who had been beaten and robbed by thieves who gave the victim comfort and aid (cash, a ride, an inn, wound dressings, etc.) with no expectation of remuneration.

The Samaritan did not happen upon the assault and execute the thieves. Jesus says, after relaying the parable, that its message is for those who would follow Him to truly love their neighbor as their own – regardless of tribal identity (Levite, Samaritan, etc.). It’s a bit of a perversion of Christianity that I read in the New Testament to revise the Good Samaritan into Batman (“Look, it’s the Sam-Signal! To the Sam-Donkey, Robin!”).