Nativity

John Campea 32 Comments

Did I miss something?

I recall my grandmother’s delicately placed porcelain figures arranged around a peaceful baby Jesus in a manger. I dont recall any violence.

Away in a manger, no crib for a bed,
The little Lord Jesus laid down His sweet head.
The stars in the sky looked down where He lay,
The little Lord Jesus, asleep on the hay.

The cattle are lowing, the Baby awakes,
The little Lord Jesus, ass kicking He makes;
I love Thee, Lord Jesus, you’ve killed the bad guys
Now pose menacingly till morning is nigh.

Who directed this? The Wachowski Brothers?

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  1. Mary did nothing wrong, and she was already betrothed to Joseph. God chose her as the vessel to fulfill the prophecy of a virgin birth. She is blameless in the situation. How is it that you now blame her for a sin she didnt commit.

    Its not a sin to be pregnant. Its a sin to have premarital sex. Mary did not have premarital sex.

    The cultural relevance is that it ISN,T alright to be pregnant and unmarried (the result of premarital sex) and God knew that she would endure much when she attempted to explain that she was still pure yet carried a child. Thats the point. In no way is Mary considered a role model for pregnant unwed teens.

    But typical as it was then for you to jump to that conclusion now.

  4. Let not forget the wonderful example that is set for our kids to have the title charactor played by a 16 y/o unmarried, pregnant girl. Isn’t those wonderful christian values something

  8. I’m not sure how a story about lashing, beating, and crucifying someone is “getting away” with putting violence in a story by anyone. From the historical information I’ve read the depiction of the whipping and crucifiction in the Passion of Christ was historically accurate.

  12. Sadsteve, just you mentioning “Life of Brian” made me smile. The best part about “The Passion of the Christ” was when the surviving members of Python decided to bring it back to theaters as counter-programming. It even started on Good Friday (according to the BBC, at least) =D

  14. I’ve seen this. The violence is when Herod tries to have all the children under 2 killed. It doesn’t last long but is at the beginning and end of the film.

    The rest of the film is pure cheese though. It starts not too badly but you don’t get engaged with the characters at all and by the end you don’t really care. I expected Monty Python to turn up by the time they got to the birth of Jesus – I thought Brian might have been next door.

  18. All I’m saying is God wanted a book written, and obviously he doesn’t feel a need to change anything, otherwise he would have sent an angel to tell us what we needed to change, just like he used to.

  19. Oh yes, it’s definitely a cash-in. It’s definitely not an attempt to spread the Gospel through a different medium than is normally done in attempts that people that usually wouldn’t hear about it just might.

    Yea, that’s definitely not it. It’s greedy corporate heads who spent months making a christian-based film without ever once thinking they are doing a good thing for anyone else but themselves. Yea, that’s what Christianity is about.

    Jaded prick.

  20. This is like the Passion in that it’s an attempt to cash in on people’s faith. There’s nothing unique and/or original going on here, nor anything creative.

    Maybe God’s chosen ones think that the bible is outdated and they better spread the word through the movies… Just goes to show you audacity and arrogance of the people who follow religion. If God meant for his message to be shown through a movie, he would have come down and told somebody to make it, just like he did with all the scriptures.

  22. I read in the paper that the violence is due to the depiction of Harod having all of the male children under the age of 2 killed like Mmmmmhmmmm said (which if you can’t place that bit in the story, it is the reason why the couple and child fled to Egypt)

  25. When films state shit like ‘1 use of foul language’ or ‘one scene of mild violence’ its not suprising the nativity, if told in its true context would contain reference to and some actual violence, enough at least to have violence listed under its PG rating.

  26. The violence most likely is referring to the actions of King Herod who had all male children under 2 years old killed in an attempt to kill Jesus. Just a thought.

  27. Thank you Calviin. I think bother Gary and Norddeth need to read the posts before responding.

    My surprise was that I tend not to relate any violence to the Nativity scene. But with a closer investigation, and some insight from a man who knows the bible much better than me:

    “According to Matthew, King Herod ordered the Magi to report back to him after they’d seen Christ, so he could have him killed. The Magi were warned in a dream, and fled. This got Herod a little peeved.”

    I couldnt imagine then dragging out 90 minutes of movie revolving around a baby not crying in a manger. There needs to be some drama.

  29. What is with you guys, Nord and Dary?

    He wasn’t rating or insulting the movie with this post. He was just surprised that Violence is listed as an attribute to a story that most people have not associated as being violent.

    To John: I can believe violence. Violent is probably the most accurate description of a woman’s actions while giving natural child birth in a barn. ~_’

    -Calviin

  30. Not quite like the Hostel movies you enjoy so much… God forbid there be any type of movie with morality it in eh? Ever so unpopular I know. These types of movies never seem to please… maybe if there were zombies in it you might like it more. Or maybe if Jesus was a demon killing people… you’d probably love it.

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