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The problem with using "The Passion of the Christ" as an evangelical tool.
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"SURVIVING THE PASSION" The problem with using "The Passion of the Christ" as an evangelical tool After paying your $12.50 at the box office you enter the dimly lit theatre and find your seat. Looking around, you sense a feeling of anticipation. As the music begins, you are transported back 2000 years to a misty garden outside the walls of Jerusalem. Through the fog you glimpse the shape of a man bent over in agonising prayer, and hear the first words spoken in Mel Gibson's "The Passion of the Christ", a controversial piece of cinema that follows Jesus Christ's last twelve hours. Unrelentingly brutal, the film has been described as 'Mad Max goes to Golgotha', and essentially gives the viewer front seat tickets to the horrendous beating of one of histories greatest and most controversial figures. Night after night the devout and the curious line up at cinemas across the globe, pay...
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