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I give it one star, even though I haven't seen it, because 99% of action movies are utter crap!

But we also made a mistake. We believed that this change should be the whole new story. Instead, thank God, one can go back. In fact, one must go back. Even if it requires a courage that those who move forward do not know. If laughter returns strong and innocent on the faces of men and boys, it will prove (to those who love them) the opposite of what its disappearance demonstrated: the joy of saints was an illusion, their resignation was reality; only those who know how to resign themselves also know how to rebel. History has it that we make yet another mistake... Pierpaolo Pasolini - Poesia Popolare 1974

And the boys have forgotten how to stand in the world, with a strength and an innocence... that were an illusion. It wasn’t enough to lose reality; we had to lose the illusion as well! Those extra thousand lira that made you believe a never-ending festival was beginning, poor brothers, were the money of the day of your end. The holy thin cow has been lost in your eyes forever; that fat one laughs, full of fear, without dignity. (continues...)

And the boys have forgotten how to stand in the world, with a strength and an innocence... that were an illusion. It wasn’t enough to lose reality; we had to lose the illusion as well! Those extra thousand lira that made you believe a never-ending festival was beginning, poor brothers, were the money of the day of your end. The holy thin cow has been lost in your eyes forever; that fat one laughs, full of fear, without dignity. (continues...)

We were wrong to believe that it was impossible for men to change so quickly, that boys would grow up, in such a short time, so turned around.

to a new fate. And all for just a thousand lire more in their pockets. They were saints in the beginning: precisely the saints who once knew how to resign themselves.

But their contentment was foolish. And it made clear that resignation had also been foolish. Nothing of sanctity remains. Men

(continues....)

We were wrong to believe that it was impossible for men to change so quickly, that boys would grow up, in such a short time, so turned around.

to a new fate. And all for just a thousand lire more in their pockets. They were saints in the beginning: precisely the saints who once knew how to resign themselves.

But their contentment was foolish. And it made clear that resignation had also been foolish. Nothing of sanctity remains. Men

(continues....)

We were wrong to believe that it was impossible for men to change so quickly, that boys would grow up, in such a short time, so turned around.

to a new fate. And all for just a thousand lire more in their pockets. They were saints in the beginning: precisely the saints who once knew how to resign themselves.

But their contentment was foolish. And it made clear that resignation had also been foolish. Nothing of sanctity remains. Men

(continues....)

You also managed to make me laugh in the last comments; however, we are all together a nice mess of what centuries of thieving church (of souls and gold) and decades of clerical-mafia politics have left us. Maybe someone could review Curzio Maltese's latest book?

@ Stoopid, I don't think the questions raised are that unreasonable, and I disagree that in order to read the Gospel we need to suspend our disbelief. We just have to read it with an open heart; we all have doubts, it's natural. It would be enough to follow its moral teachings, more simply "love your neighbor as yourself," just these 7 words of such simplicity confront us with ourselves and our selfishness. It’s incredibly difficult, but it would be enough to reflect on it every now and then. The other issue about YouTube seems to me to be absurd, first because after 2000 years humanity still hasn’t learned to follow the true Christian message and then because if another messiah were to come today, the media would tear him apart worse than a crucifixion and he would lose his credibility and that aura of mysticism that is necessary to create faith. In any case, after the tables of Moses and Christ, the third revelation has already been delivered to humanity which I will not discuss here, to avoid banalizations by the materialistic know-it-alls who are always ready to create disharmony.

At first glance, I found it difficult to respond to your questions, but then with a bit of effort and common sense, I believe I can offer you something constructive. I'm not a biblical scholar; I've tried to read it, but I found many things hard to digest for my spirit, so I limit myself to reading the Gospels. I am Christian, but not Catholic. As for the temporal contradiction of Herod, I easily found the answer in the notes of my edition of the Bible, which explains that the Herod of (14-1) would be the Tetrarch Herod Antipas, son of Herod the Great, so there's no mystery there. You could have delved deeper into your research. Regarding the question about John the Baptist that you raise, I think you have a misunderstanding of the time of Christ; for starters, you use the term "heresy," which was used much later by the Catholic Church. In my opinion, at that time there were many soothsayers and oracles, and the people of Israel were not easily doctrinable (see the times of Moses). The Bible is full of prophets, one of whom is Isaiah. As for the apostles, I believe they were men with their fears and weaknesses, and they were not the ones who pushed Jesus to the cross, but the Jews who saw their faith threatened. Instead of referring to John Lennon, you should read the apocryphal Gospels, particularly the one of Judas, and you would see that the crucifixion was willed by the Most High. I don't need to tell you what the suffering and blood of Christ represent today for all believers. Your last question also seems simple to me; Christ said that when we perform acts of charity and mercy, we should do them simply out of love, without pride and arrogance, simply with humility. To conclude, I too think that we should reduce the distance that separates us from Christ, but not as De André said that Jesus is the son of man; on the contrary, I believe we are all children of God and that we have many unexpressed potentials in our minds and spirits.