Correct.
Well, it’s not called genesis…
Not entirely, but it is simular.
But never the less they are still in it.
Maybe I have and maybe I haven’t… he he he… (you’ll never know!)
Jesus is also in the Koran!
Well, I hope this movie scares the hell out of movie goers, and provoke them to seek God out. According to protestant/evagelical circles it sounds like the “Muslim religion will be left behind” to suffer the protestant/evangelical new invention of the Tribulation interpretation.The One Place on Earth Not Destroyed in ‘2012’
**For “2012,” Emmerich set his sites on destroying the some biggest landmarks around the world, from Rome to Rio. But there’s one place that Emmerich wanted to demolish but didn’t: the Kaaba, the cube-shaped structure located in the center of Mecca. It’s the focus of prayers and the site of the Hajj, the biggest, most important pilgrimage in Islam. **
**“Well, I wanted to do that, I have to admit,” the filmmaker told scifiwire.com. “But my co-writer Harald [Kloser] said, ‘I will not have a fatwa on my head because of a movie.’ And he was right.” **
…
Emmerich has no qualms about wrecking other major landmarks, however. The massive dome of St. Peter’s Basilica in the Vatican rolls on top of a crowd of churchgoers. The huge Christ the Redeemer statue that looms over Rio de Janeiro disintegrates.
movies.yahoo.com/feature/movie-talk-roland-emmerich-fatwa.html
In the movie he’ll destroy:
The White House
The Sistine Chapel in the Vatican
St. Peter’s Basilica in the Vatican
Christ the Redeemer statue in Rio de Janeiro
…
but he’s afraid to blow up the Kaaba in his movie fearing fatwa’s…
What a wuss!
From what I understand reading the “critics” is that this movie will “bomb” in the box office. Not because of this blowing up Christian stuff and not touching islamic religious places… it’s just that the movie stinks.
:clapping:Excuse me, but what about incenses me and other Christians? Do you think we LIKE seeing the statue of Christ the Reedemer reduced to rubble or the dome of the Vatican falling off and crushing people? Why is it that our feelings and our sensibilities aren’t taken into account, if this director is so concerned about not offending people? It’s because he knows that we won’t kill him over it, because we recognize that it’s a movie. A stupid movie, a movie in poor taste, but a movie nonetheless. Muslims, on the other hand, go crazy about every little thing. By rolling over and saying “okay, I’ll go out of my way to show Islam triumphant over everything on the planet”, it just emboldens them to continue to act like psychopaths instead of growing the hell up and realizing that Islam does NOT hold a special place above all other religions, and people do NOT respect it or the thugs that run around blowing stuff up in “defense” of it.
Oh boo hoo. I hate to say it, but when it comes to broad depictions of a religion (since you’re right, not every Muslim is a violent idiot; many are quite nice, in fact), it IS an “us vs. them” situation - they’re trying to silence us and make us obey the rules of their religion that are inherently anti-Christian, anti-minority, anti-free expression, anti-art, anti-culture, anti-development, and anti-peace. Some of us are saying that we shouldn’t be doing this, while others of us are not admitting that if we were talking about any other group none of this would be in the least bit acceptable.
Wake the hell up!
I don’t think anyone here is saying that he should blow up the Kaba’a. The issue is what kind of message he is sending by blowing up all the symbols of Christianity without a second thought while leaving the monolith of Islam standing because he’s afraid he might get injured or murdered if he doesn’t. That was HIS explanation.
Really? How many years ago, do you suppose, that such things ‘mostly died out?’
It depends on the local. In America, maybe 100 years ago is when most of it ended. In some places, it still goes on.
What is the Catholic equivalent to a fatwa… somehow an excommunication doesn’t sound so threatening expecially to a non-Catholic There really isn’t one. For some reason, we do not have an understanding in Canon law of putting a bounty on someone’s head.Maybe IF we threathened the lives of movie producers and directors too, they would not be so quick to destroy our religious landmarks too.
Love your enemy?Maybe IF we threathened the lives of movie producers and directors too, they would not be so quick to destroy our religious landmarks too.
No need to do that. Just don’t support his movie and the $'s. Thats all.Maybe IF we threathened the lives of movie producers and directors too, they would not be so quick to destroy our religious landmarks too.
Can’t handle what?You can’t handle it can you?
i guess the best we can do is tell him his soul will be thrown into the lake of fire unless he repentsThere really isn’t one. For some reason, we do not have an understanding in Canon law of putting a bounty on someone’s head.
I guess Jesus forgot to teach us that one.
The article doesn’t say that he doesn’t believe organized religion exists. He simply doesn’t believe that organized religion is a good thing. Obviously he believes it exists, because he singled out icons of organized religions to (virtually) destroy.
I have a better idea. If all Christians quit pandering to these Hollywood types totally. no more ticket sales, no more People magazine, no more E news. Kick them right in the pocketbook. THEN they will repent
I understand that it’s not a very good movie anyway. Is it worth a thread on CAF?
