It’s Holy Week so Pace (they/them) and Emily (they/them) tackle one of the most horrific films about Jesus ever made, The Passion of the Christ. We talk about the gore, the anti-Semitism, and whether this movie should truly be classified as a horror film. Also, why is Jesus so white? Find out all of this and more in this episode of Horror Nerds at Church!
CW: discussions of anti-Semitism and queerphobia
Media Referenced:
-Nerds at Church’s Good Friday and Easter episodes
-Horror Nerds at Church’s interview with Richard Lindsay
-The song Watch the Lamb by Don Francisco
-Hollywood Biblical Epics by Richard Lindasy
-Dracula by Bram Stoker
-Cast Out of the Covenantby Adele Reinhartz
-Preaching without Contemptby Marilyn J. Salmon
-Dan Brown’s The Da Vinci Codeand Angels and Demons
-Fifty Shades of Greyby E.L. James
-Two Archaeologists Comment on The Passion of the Christ (PDF) by Dr. Andrea Berlin and Dr. Jodi Magness
-Christian Anti-Semitism: Past History, Present Challenges Reflections in Light of Mel Gibson’s The Passion of the Christ by John T. Pawlikowski
-”I didn’t see any Anti-Semitism’: Why many Christians don’t have a Problem with The Passion of the Christby Mary C. Boys
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