Jesus Christ! Social Media Names The ‘Passion Of The Christ’ Sequel (VIDEO)

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Robert L. Franklin
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It is in this writer’s opinion that Mel Gibson is the U2 of Hollywood. He, like the Irish rock quartet, made some good stuff early (Lethal Weapon/The Joshua Tree), then started to suck (What Women Want/Pop), then did something that drew them the ire of almost everyone (being a Jew-hating drunk/forcing themselves into everyone’s iTunes accounts). Also, like U2, Mel Gibson is persistent, with the latter’s persistence being in the form of still making music way past their prime and the former’s being an attempt to recapture glory after outing himself as a Jew-hating drunk.

2004’s The Passion of the Christ, of which this writer views 2004’s Saw as its spiritual successor, told the story of the final hours of Jesus Christ in all of their harrowing, bloody splendor. The Passion was not as much a faith movie as it was an exercise in antisemitism, dead languages, gore, and killing Jim Caviezel’s once-promising acting career. But unlike Mr. Caviezel, Jesus Christ gets another chance, for both Jew-hating drunk Mel Gibson and Randall “No Relation to William” Wallace have recently announced they are working on a sequel to The Passion.

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Post-Passion Mel Gibson. Image taken by the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Office and is in the public domain.

Their sequel is said to focus on Jesus Christ’s zombification resurrection and as of right now is without an official name, which has opened the door for social media denizens to pitch prospective titles themselves, such as:

It’s worth pointing out that Seth MacFarlane has already provided a title for the sequel, even before it was announced. In fact, he even created a full trailer.

It’s no secret that I find The Passion of the Christ to be a detestable cinematic affair. Aside from the reliance on blood and guts to sell the story, the questionable Biblical accuracy, and the portrayal of Jews within the 2+ hours of content, I blame The Passion of the Christ for kicking open the doors to the current frequency of faith-based movies, the majority of which suck about as much as the Lifetime Original Movies after many of which they are modeled. From major studio productions like Exodus: Gods and Kings and Noah to more modest outputs like God’s Not Dead and Kirk Cameron’s Saving Christmas, I blame the success of The Passion for turning the Bible into cinematic fodder that makes scores of moviegoers act like this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eUeUM01UKsA

Okay, maybe that’s a little unfair, but sometimes the faith mobilization following movies like The Passion of the Christ seem to look almost exactly like that. The mobilization following The Passion was intense, so this writer can only speculate what will happen following the release of The Passion of the Christ 2: Electric Boogaloo.

Featured image via Twitter.

h/t Raw Story

Robert L. Franklin
Robert could go on about how he was raised by honey badgers in the Texas Hill Country, or how he was elected to the Texas state legislature as a 19-year-old wunderkind, or how he won 219 consecutive games of Rock 'Em Sock 'Em Robots against Hugh Grant, but those would be lies. However, Robert does hail from Lewisville, Texas, having been transplanted from Fort Worth at a young age. Robert is a college student and focuses his studies on philosophical dilemmas involving morality, which he feels makes him very qualified to write about politicians. Reading the Bible turned Robert into an atheist, a combative disposition toward greed turned him into a humanist, and the fact he has not lost a game of Madden football in over a decade means you can call him "Zeus." If you would like to be his friend, you can send him a Facebook request or follow his ramblings on Twitter. For additional content that may not make it to Liberal America, Robert's internet tavern, The Zephyr Lounge, is always open

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