kiat

Most of you may have wondered why I post such thing here. The answer is: I saw an advertisment in Singapore Newspaper (Streats), on 12 Apr, about this tcpc forum, that invite all to join and discuss. I am not sure whether it was posted by the owner(s) of this board, or if it was a prank done by a forum member. But this is what you get if you advertise for an open discussion. I had even sent it to the webmaster for vetting. The webmaster told me "You should absolutely post it on the message boards.", "People can handle it!". So I registered an account and post it. I really like some of the ways the replies were written. Shows the comprehension skills of the members here (some good, some bad). We can't have meaningful discussions. Class dismissed! If the members here think this thread is an eye sore, I support the webmaster to delete the whole thread.

I wrote this 2 weeks ago, after watching the movie (with a free ticket from a church going friend, of course). The intended audience were my "non Jesus worshipping" friends, that's why the use of casual words like "######", "this guy", etc. I thought it will be good for you to know how others think of you and your religion, that's why I post this review here without any editing for the audience here. ===================== This "Passion Of The Christ" movie is worth watching. BUT NOT with your own money. Get a free ticket from your friendly church goer. The story line is simple and has a good moral behind it. BUT all those "believers" won't understand this moral. They are blinded by all the superstitious fictions and they think that the lesson to learn from this movie is the "he suffer for us" ######. Even the producers of this movie understand this story in this naive way. This is a story of simple politics. The up-and-coming opposition leader, Jesus, who's action differs from the social norm, being oppress by the current dominant power. The dominant power find some silly reason to kill this opposition guy. Familiar story? That was not the first time such thing happen in history, nor the last time. You can still see such events happen everyday. And guess who were the most prominant oppresser for the past thousand years? Exactly those that worship this guy. Exactly those that keeps telling this story tirelessly over and over again, and fails to learn the correct lesson from it. When you are watching, remember all the hundreds of thousands of "witches" that are killed in Europe from about year 1400-1600. All tortured and killed by this guy's worshippers, because the roles are reversed. The "witches" were the minority acting different from the social norm, this guy's worshippers were the dominant power. Did this guy suffer more than these "witches"? Every one of these "witches" are much more innocent than him (this guy instigate the people to go against the dominant power, the "witches" are killed by cold blooded intolerance just because they are different), and suffer more than him. But we won't have any movie in memorial of these "witches". Such "witch hunting" or religious intolerance by this guy's worshippers are still happening every second throughout the world. Sometimes the victims just got verbal insults, sometimes whole countries are destroyed. When the minority out-of-the-norm try to stop suffering in silence and revorted slightly, they are branded as "bad guys" and are crushed down even more violently. When you are watching, remember how this guy's worshippers ill-treat and discriminate against the blacks, and how they shift their goal posts on this issue over the past 50 years, only after they are defeated by public opinion. When you are watching, remember how this guy's worshippers are still ill-treating and discriminating against the homosexuals now. They are now slowly shifting their goal posts on this issue over the next 50 years, again also because they will be defeated by public opinion. The show is still on. Now they are quoting scriptures to support their belief of "god forbid homosexuals". Expect them to do a U turn and quote other scripture verses that support their (incoming) belief of "god also love homosexuals" in the near future. It is the black situation all over again. There are still more such episodes coming. Issues on human cloning, issues on animal intelligence (When we can use genetic assistance + education to make monkeys to become as intelligent as human over maybe 50-100 generations, what will happen? And after that what about dogs? After that what about pigs?).... History will repeat again and again, and again. Don't dream that this guy's worshippers will learn this lesson from this movie. There is no scripture verse to teach them this. For more than a thousand years, they learn the opposite lesson ("we must crush those not with us") from the scriptures and this story. I will gladly act out (all the torture scenes of) this movie (including the die part) as lead actor FOR REAL if doing this can make them learn the lesson. I will even smile all the way, although no promise I will be able to sustain that smile physically, mentally the smile will be permanent. If they think 1 guy is not enough, tell me how many they need, and I'll get more volunteers (Don't worry, getting volunteers is very easy compared to "make them learn the lesson"). Even if you don't like to think about all these "deep" issues. Be part of the history by watching the first M18 movie in Singapore. Only a dominant powers' religious film can create a movie rating category in 1 day. It is a real miracle act. regards, kiat