You know, there's something both tacky and amusing about DC Comics wrapping up their big, year-long crossover about Death and Resurrection just in time for Easter.
I'm pretty sure that wasn't in the Bible, though. Much of the peripheral work to the Gospels is quite good - Ben Hur! - but the actual story as written in the Bible is just a narrative and literary mess.
Well, sure, it's a mess. But, you know, just because, say, the tales of King Arthur are a mishmash of unrelated legends and folktales that were all thrown together doesn't mean that you can't get a good STORY out of'em.
I mean, it's not like this is some kind of gospel written in stone or something!
That's nihilistic, though. Any story could be told in a good way. Someone might take Scientology's mythology and do something really interesting with it some day, but that effort will be done only because of the propaganda inherent in the religion - which is how it is with the Passion. It's a poorly told, confusing story whose moral relevance is specious. That someone has taken this ten pound load shoved into a five pound sack and done some cool things with it doesn't change that the source material is bogus!
Oh, sure, and I like the story of Mithras better than Jesus. But that's beside the point! The story, as presented in the Bible, is a mess. A boring, confusing, immoral mess.
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It's the FANBOYS I can't stand.
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But wouldn't Willem DaFoe make a great Sinestro?
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I mean, it's not like this is some kind of gospel written in stone or something!
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