Salz statt Balsam auf moderne Seelen?

Eine der lesenswerten Besprechungen von "The Passion" stammt von Uwe-Siemon-Netto, einem deutschen lutherischen Theologen und UPI-Korrespondenten:

"Must a work of art be so drastic? Could it no be a little less troubling, you know, more of a politically correct balsam to the soul?

Must we really know what it looked like when the Romans scourged people about to be crucified? When they beat them with whips whose leather strips bore metal balls that dug deep into the victim's muscle tearing out chunks of flesh and exposing the bone beneath, as biologist Cathleen Shrier of Azusa Pacific University describes this procedure?

'It is as it was,' Pope John Paul II is reported to have said after previewing the film. But is this reason enough to show this to a society that, in the sarcastic words of Boston University's church historian Carter Lindberg, 'doesn't want to have crucified people hanging around'?

Is this the proper form of edification, for example, for feminist theologians constantly attempting to re-imagine Christ to the point of trying to do away with 'bleeding men dangling from a tree,' as one of their leaders opined a few years ago at an event where they 'consecrated' a Eucharist with milk and honey to celebrate female body juices?"

Es geht nicht um Erbaulichkeit, meint er, sondern um die alte christliche Wahrheit, daß vor Ostern der Karfreitag steht. "Ungekreuzigt steht keiner auf." (via Catholic Analysis)