Is it possible that James Cameron's new documentary, The Jesus Tomb, has outdone his other biting criticisms of people of faith?
The Jesus Tomb is supposed to offer evidence about the legendary Do-Gooder's final resting place. I also understand that many archaeologists refute Cameron's "science." He's played them right into his hands!
He has planned this all along, and, perhaps, all of his other movies were leading up to this. Lets not get involved in the details of whether there is or is not truth in the documentary. Let's look at all how the Christian Right is going ape-shit!!!! All over Fox News, Scarborough County, and other shows, they are having to do all over again what Dan Brown made them do: hold special "rap" sessions with kids so that they're minds aren't infiltrated, bang their fists on the Bible as if it didn't itself have a hsitory of compilation, and generally act sore about how offensive it is to even question their metanarrative.
Granted, Cameron wants to make a lot of dough. A lot. Good! That's exactly what televangelists have been doing all along. And if even more deluded Christians want to believe that the tomb is actually some place else, let them fight over X marks the spot. Either way it makes Aliens, The Abyss, and Titanic look like satirical masterpeices!
Aliens--when Ripley frees the cocooned little kid, Newt (Jesus), and defeats the Queen (Whore of Babylon) with a forklift and an airlock, we see how easy it will be for Good to win over Evil--in Christians' dreams!
The Abyss--when Bud's touching message to his wife is interpreted by the aliens as a reason not to destroy humanity, we realize that the members of Deep Core are in fact inside Extremely Shallow, as in a certain belief system that reckons it is responsible for saving the whole world with mere words. What an excellent send-up!
Titanic--drifting along in the icy water, Rose wakes up to find that Jack is...dead! Ha ha ha ha ha ha !!!!!!!!!! Made even more ascerbic by the over-the-toop Celine Dion song, its lyrics of false hope soaring high, only to crash land into the waters of silence, the film warmed the cockles of my heart. As will Jesus Tomb, the next installment of Cameron's epic series: Fools Love Redemption.
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