I have not watched "The Chosen", but I have heard from various people who liked it. I have the Bible, and I always said, "The book was better than the movie" whenever it came to comparing the two forms.
The other day I came across a negative review by Catholic author Leila Miller titled, "Christology matters. Reject the false 'Jesus' of The Chosen." In it she posits that the on screen Jesus is created in our image instead of the other way around. I won't get into the details of her arguments or her anti-Protestant tenor, but her addendum at the bottom sums it up,
"I finally realized why the false 'Jesus' in The Chosen repels me. He's the same guy from my 1970s and 1980s CCD classes. He was the catalyst for so many to flee Catholicism and empty the pews. Gosh, that gee-whiz Jesus loved us all so much! He just wanted us to be happy and “follow our hearts”. He was so inoffensive and groovy that I went on to live many years of mortal sin, just knowing that nice Jesus understood me."
I once attended an Episcopal church and the revisionist priest installed a picture of a laughing Jesus in the parish hall as one of his first moves to liberalize the congregation. I was probably the only person who objected, and my reasons are echoed in Leila Miller's addendum above.
I don't think I'll be watching The Chosen unless I am called upon to do so by a fan of the show who presents me with a falsehood they learned from watching it and is in need of correction.
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I don't watch TV at all with the exception of sports events. I also stopped going to movies long ago. Every video is designed to influence people and make them think the way the videographer wants them to. I don't like being manipulated. With written material, I can stop and think, check facts, and more easily spot manipulation.
ReplyDeleteBack in the 1970's I read "The Medium is the Massage" by Marshall McLuhan who told how we can be manipulated so easily by media.
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