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Memo to: Intelligent BelieversFrom:
Roger A. McCaffrey
Time was when Hollywood – even Hollywood – prohibited depictions of sadistic torture on the screen. Five seconds of sadism would have earned a producer a visit from the D.A. Hours of it? He’d have been indicted. Use of the word "sex" on national TV was once unthinkable. Was it Steve Allen who walked off the set of the old Tonight Show because they told him he couldn’t say it? But that was back when we still had a Christian society. Teetering, perhaps, but Christian mores carried the day. All that collapsed, as you know, and films containing erotic nudity became mainstream. Sadistic torture also made its debut, as night follows day. Stars like Mel Gibson and a hundred like him have made a good living off all this. As a father protecting his son from what the Church calls "occasions of sin" in many of Mel’s other flicks, I await his apology, now that he’s discovered what it means to be a Catholic and all. Christian women who leave The Passion weeping ought not to imagine they are having a religious experience. They’re weeping because they have been violated and degraded by Mel’s movie. They’re weeping because they’re accustomed to the Holy Spirit’s account – the one in the Gospels, which depict the Crucifixion with reserve and circumspection for good reasons. Has Mel Gibson improved on that? February 28, 2004 Roger McCaffrey [send him mail] is a Catholic publisher who founded The Latin Mass and Sursum Corda magazines. Copyright © 2004 LewRockwell.com
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