{"id":717,"date":"2004-03-02T02:34:00","date_gmt":"2004-03-02T02:34:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=717"},"modified":"2018-08-11T13:23:35","modified_gmt":"2018-08-11T18:23:35","slug":"717","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2004\/03\/02\/717\/","title":{"rendered":"World Stops, Briefly"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Holy Toledo, and Santa Akron, but the <i>SFGate<\/i> Web site has a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sfgate.com\/cgi-bin\/article.cgi?file=\/gate\/archive\/2004\/03\/01\/jnelson.DTL\" target=\"new\">reasonable column on&#8217;t<\/a>.  Jennifer Nelson explains how the reaction to <i>The Passion of the Christ<\/i> shows the media&#8217;s disdain for Christian religion.<\/p>\n<p>Excerpt:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>No matter what your religious affiliation is, the story of Jesus Christ is an interesting and compelling story of human behavior. I am not Jewish, but I would love Hollywood to produce a major motion picture about Hanukkah, which commemorates the victory of the Jews over the Hellenistic Syrians and is an important lesson in religious freedom. But if such a movie were made, do you think the Hollywood elite would wrinkle their noses and ask, &#8220;What would propel Spielberg to make a movie about Hanukkah?&#8221; I don&#8217;t think so.<\/p>\n<p>In the end, Gibson, who is a conservative Catholic, spent $30 million of his own money to tell a story he believes is important. Every week, movies are released that some filmmaker feels is significant. So, in the spirit of the message on bumper stickers I see on Volvos in Berkeley, &#8220;If you don&#8217;t support abortions, don&#8217;t have one,&#8221; if you don&#8217;t like Gibson or his religion, don&#8217;t go see his movie. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Johnk yeah!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Holy Toledo, and Santa Akron, but the SFGate Web site has a reasonable column on&#8217;t. Jennifer Nelson explains how the reaction to The Passion of the Christ shows the media&#8217;s disdain for Christian religion. Excerpt: No matter what your religious affiliation is, the story of Jesus Christ is an interesting and compelling story of human [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-717","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/717","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=717"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/717\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22745,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/717\/revisions\/22745"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=717"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=717"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=717"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}