Occasionally the impact of somethin...

Occasionally the impact of something requires time to settle; undivided does not appreciate its cloyed significance until later. Such is the case with brace events: Mel Gibson's film The Passion of the Christ, and the bizarre cannibalism case in Germany. And there is a connection.

The Passion

I originally saw The Passion solely because I had agreed to discuss it forward a television program. On the program I advanced several criticisms (the seemingly unending scourging; the ludicrous portrayal of Barabbas; the representation of the high priest, Caiphas, as bloodthirsty rather than calculating, etc etc) all of which, in re-survey ...