You want to know who my mother and father is? You want to know who my God is? Fear! You look inside me and that's all you'll find."Ĭonservatives took issue with the fact that their savior Jesus Christ was portrayed as just another worldly sinner begging for forgiveness. Bishop Anthony G. I want to rebel against you, against everything, against God, but I'm afraid. I don't steal, I don't fight, I don't kill - not because I don't want to - but because I'm afraid. I don't ever tell the truth, I don't have the courage. "I'm a liar, a hypocrite I'm afraid of everything. What was it about the "The Last Temptation of Christ" that caused the religious community to react with such vitriol - up to the point that they wanted to erase all traces of it from the earth? Why did Christians believe that watching it would damn you to Satan's lake of fire? Universal Studios defended the exhibition of Scorsese's contentious drama on the grounds of the First Amendment they believed Americans had the right to choose whether or not they wanted to see the film. Mother Angelica (founder of the Eternal World Television Network) warned believers that if they watched the "sacrilegious" film, they would be "committing a deliberate act of blasphemy" that would send them to hell and bring America as a whole under God's "chastisement." Mother Teresa also commented on the controversy, rallying Catholics to pray so that "Our Blessed Mother (Mary) will see that this film is removed from your land. Theatre chains in Georgia, Louisiana, California, and Oklahoma banned the "The Last Temptation of Christ." Blockbuster refused to carry it on home video. Bill Bright, the founder of the American Family Association and Campus Crusade for Christ (CCC), wanted to purchase all of the film's prints and destroy them. Both the book and film adaptation were met with outrage from conservative Christian groups. In 1988, Martin Scorsese directed "The Last Temptation of Christ," based on the novel by Nikos Kazantzakis about the life of Jesus Christ as a quotidian man and the temptations he faces on his way to the cross.
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