tuluum's Diaryland Diary
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It's Like A Jungle Sometimes...
It's a sea of Nikis on my desktop right now but my printer isn't printing color anymore... i've tried everything. I think I may need a new printhead. At least it's a Canon so the printhead is removable. I hate getting things serviced, like to do it all myself. But I'm gonna have to take it in...
My tummy is full of high carb high caloric goodness... but I'm feeling kinda melancholic nevertheless. Dunno if its the fights with my dad, the fact that my folks don't seem to appreciate these little toys I try to give or overall unfulfilled desire. Anyway I should be happy, I have a lot to be thankful for right now. I'm gonna get back to work now. Gotta get paid!
Charles Krauthammer has never written a dumb column, to my knowledge. Even on emotional subjects such as civil marriage, he brings to the debate a calm reasoning that wins the respect of his opponents as well as his supporters. And that is why his searing criticism of Mel Gibson� inflammatory and idiosyncratic version of the Passion is so helpful. I�m tired of people believing that Gibson is representing Catholicism, specifically the reformed, open, repentant Catholicism of the Second Vatican Council. Gibson doesn�t recognize the authority of the current Pope. He doesn�t recognize the mass�the central ritual of Catholics across the world. People are mistaken in believing he merely prefers the Latin mass; he doesn�t. He favors the Tridentine mass�a relic. He believes that all non-Catholics are going to hell, another heresy. He is clearly and palpably anti-Semitic. His movie is an act of aggression against Jews, and, as such, is an act of aggression against Catholicism and the current Pope�s heroic efforts to confront the shameful history of the Church with regard to the Jewish people. Charles notes how Satan moves and lives and breathes among the Jews in the movie. He doesn�t mention that young Jewish children turn into demons at one point in the movie, a device that only students of medieval anti-Semitism would notice. In fact, one reason that today�s viewers don�t notice the hatred of Jews in the movie is that, mercifully, they are not familiar with the medieval tropes that signal evil and that Gibson traffics in. Gibson knows. And he knows how his message will be received in those parts of the world where anti-Semitic tropes are still recognized. Notice I am not accusing people of good faith who have found inspiration in the story portrayed in this movie of being anti-Semitic. I believe that much, if not all of that devotion is genuine and not motivated by anything but spiritual hope and reflection. But that cannot disguise the malice that lies beneath. And that Gibson would use the message of Christ to advance it is what makes it doubly unforgivable.
---Andrew Sullivan
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3:54 p.m. - Sunday, Mar. 07, 2004
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