I watched, "Passion of the Christ" for the first time tonight..
I ran from the room bawling.
I sobbed so hard I hurt myself and what is worse.. After having seen that.. I know in my heart that his pain was that horrible, his persecution that graphic and real, because it all boiled down to the two things I hate about religion most of all... Power and greed, and nearly certain that someone was afraid of what Jesus had to say and merely wanted to get rid of him.
Mind you, I know it's just a movie, but the underlying truth was that men who want power and control, could not see the truth in something so simple and beautiful as Jesus.. Very few saw that in the beginning and few see it now.. THE CHURCH uses Jesus as a selling point these days.. I would blast anyone who would say they would not deny him today if faced with death. Men are weak and scared and easily charmed.
Ask who ever you want about the Bible.. It's a book, written and rewritten a hundred times. When you read it, it reads as any other book does. You interpret it's meaning as it was written by the person who interpretted it before, and so on and so forth.
I don't believe in such a thing as a holy book, not the Koran, the Bible or the Khama Sutra. The word of God is in a person's heart, even crazy people know the reason between right and wrong when they really think about it.
I don't need a book to tell me not to kill people or steal, it's embedded in my soul.