(November 7, 2025 at 5:41 am)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: They're going to keep beating that dead horse as long as the money keeps falling out if it.
Boru
And what about Jesus movies? Are those also beating that dead horse or do they still produce something new?
Quote:‘The Carpenter’s Son’ Review: Nicolas Cage Raises Jesus in a Horror Movie
“The Carpenter’s Son” is adapted from “The Infancy Gospel of Thomas,” which depicts the messiah’s early years as a child as he discovers his supernatural powers. Nicolas Cage plays “The Carpenter,” FKA Twigs plays “The Mother” and Noah Jupe plays “The Boy” (Jesus).
Jesus is a young teenager, and like all young teenagers, he’s knee-deep in a rebellious phase and hanging out with the local troublemaker, in this case an androgynous goth kid who is obviously Satan (Souheila Yacoub).
Satan tempts Jesus with fun illicit acts like touching lepers and playing with wooden snakes. (Whee!) Joseph will have none of that, and throws Jesus in a wooden cage so he think about what he’s done. It’s tempting to say Joseph shouldn’t throw stones, since he’s making his money by carving false idols, but this is a prequel and “shouldn’t throw stones” hasn’t been invented yet.
If you could somehow remove the Biblical context of “The Carpenter’s Son,” the movie might work, since the whole thing hinges on whether Jesus Christ will use his powers for good or evil. Let’s just say there’s no way the ending could possibly be a spoiler. There’s no suspense because there’s zero chance Jesus is going to join Mephistopheles’ Brotherhood of Evil Messiahs. It just doesn’t work.
https://www.thewrap.com/the-carpenters-s...olas-cage/
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"
