From: hist1261@waikato.ac.nz
Newsgroups: rec.arts.movies
Subject: Re: Oliver Stone's  THE BIBLE
Date: 22 Dec 92 11:33:01 +1300
Organization: University of Waikato, Hamilton, New Zealand

In article <1992Dec18.070233.21305@news.DKRZ-Hamburg.DE>, k206027@smog.DKRZ-Hamburg.DE (Bakayaroo Banzai) writes:
> In article <1992Dec17.113132.12846@waikato.ac.nz> hist1261@waikato.ac.nz writes:
>>In article <1992Dec16.205511.29172@Virginia.EDU>, wht3a@Virginia.EDU (William Harmon Thompson) writes:
>>> No, Jesus couldn't be cast as a present day politically
>>> correctoid.  PC people generally don't like to be held
>>> accountable to any standard of moral behavior or believe that
>>> there are consequences for actions.  Nor do they see too
>>> straight.  The Christ was unconditionally loving, compassionate
>>> and fair, but he held no illusions about one's behavior and the
>>> the consequences it engendered.  He`d insist on moral behavior.
>>
>>Vote for George Bush did you?  Family Values forever.
>>
> I'm not quite sure what provoked this statement. William's take on 
> Christ is quite correct. All you have to do is read the New Testament
> to confirm it. Are you objecting to the characterization of PC people?
> Should I make a left-field comment here about New Zealanders, sheep, 
> and nuclear warships just to provoke a reaction? If you have a valid
> argument to what he posted why don't you share it rather than insult
> him for what you assume his political affiliation to be? Otherwise,
> please take it to the pol or religion groups.
> 
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Okay, I've got to bite here - apologies if it's the wrong newsgroup, but then
I didn't start it (there's a bit of school yard logic right off).  What 
"provoked" my statement was the posturing of dear old William who seems 
desperately in need of a screening of "The Life of Brian" or perhaps even
"The Last Temptation of Christ" (that is if his good book does not prohibit
it).  Whether or not he is "correct" in his religious intrepretation is, I
should imagine, quite another matter, certainly involving a little more than
the perusal of a single volume of dubiously translated material.  I responded
to the perceptible assertion in Bill's posting that if the big J.C. voted in
the last U.S. presidential election he would have been a Bush man.  

That was about it.  Now if Herr Marchese wants to get all huffy and slag off 
the small little islands of my birth he is most welcome, although I can't see
how the good gentlemen could possibly link it to my original posting.  We in 
New Zealand are quite accustomed to sheep jokes, and the nuclear policy is 
about to be thrown out the window anyway (not that it particularly bothers me
one way or the other).  If I were to be tempted down to that low level myself
I could of course remember the immortal words of Basil Fawlty and "not mention
the war".

Yours in christian brotherhood (even if they did steal the holiday off the 
pagans), 
Richard.