A bare cross.In his "Mel Gibson Noun 1. Mel Gibson - Australian actor (born in the United States in 1956) Mel Columcille Gerard Gibson, Gibson U.S.A., United States, United States of America, US, USA, America, the States, U.S. Meets Marc Chagall" (February 27), John Coleman John Coleman may be:
n. 1. The state of being preoccupied; absorption of the attention or intellect. 2. Something that preoccupies or engrosses the mind: Money was their chief preoccupation. with those details evidences a complete failure to understand the significance of the Cross. I do not regard Gibson's movie as anti-Semitic, but I do not see the need to look at a man reduced to a scourged piece of meat on a cross. I take comfort from the fact that at the height of Christ's agony there was darkness throughout the land, thus discouraging voyeurs. I will not encourage what I seriously regard as a voyeuristic and even pornographic fantasy by seeing the movie. The publicity flyers showed enough ultraviolence to convince me of the film's morbidity. STEVE MEIKLE Christchurch, New Zealand New Zealand (zē`lənd), island country (2005 est. pop. 4,035,000), 104,454 sq mi (270,534 sq km), in the S Pacific Ocean, over 1,000 mi (1,600 km) SE of Australia. The capital is Wellington; the largest city and leading port is Auckland. |
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