"No offense...."

Moving this video to rougy's personal queue. It failed to receive enough votes to get sifted up to the front page within 2 days.

I've never seen this movie - And now I know why!
I just can't view this as entertainment. I know it's supposed to a "historical account" of the basis for Christianity, it is supposed to make us sick and fill us with hate and force us to convert but in my mind it just reinforces the sick mind of human beings. Real or not, this type of thing did happen to people and I find it hard to stomach because of it. The cruelty that can be targeted towards another human being is beyond my comprehension..

EDIT: Still an upvote for the great acting and power of story telling!

^ Sage,

I never saw it, either. I posted it as a response to an "enhanced interrogation" discussion we were having on The Sift at the time.

I tried to make the point that...power being powerful just wasn't that impressive.

I think that there was a Jesus of Nazareth, but I also think that almost everyting about his life has been stolen and twisted to the extent that it is nearly impossible to know who he was.

And, of course, he was a handsome Euro-esque fellow....

I posted this in an attempt to make the conservatives here rethink their position.

The title is flippant, but the *dark moment from the *history of the New Testament was meant to show the *fear and pain associdated with scourging and crucifixion - people talk about this aspect of *religion but this "died for our sins" talk is just empty if you don't understand what kind of horrors it's associated with.

Adding video to channels (Dark, Fear, History, Religion) - requested by Krupo.

wtf with the extreme end of the video???

christians love fetishizing this stuff. they are so repressed they inevitably turn into sadomasochists.

>> ^deathcow:
wtf with the extreme end of the video???


That's Satan played excellently by Rosalinda Celentano.

>> ^Krupo:
The title is flippant, but the dark moment from the history of the New Testament was meant to show the fear and pain associated with scourging and crucifixion - people talk about this aspect of religion but this "died for our sins" talk is just empty if you don't understand what kind of horrors it's associated with.


I know what you mean about the "flippant" comment but I was honestly trying to reveal nature of torture to the many pro-torture American conservatives here on the Sift.

Rome surely thought it was protecting itself and its interests with this kind of behavior.