Well Gregg Easterbrook didn’t like The Passion of The Christ either. Heck, he even points out that the Gospels don’t support the torture fest Mel Gibson put his Jesus through.
However, the movie’s opened big; $26 million in the first day. So how much of the audience are people curious about the controversy, and how many are there because they see it as their duty?
In what will sound like the opening of a joke: a lapsed Catholic, an atheist, and a Jew will walk into a screening of The Passion next week. We’ll debrief over coffee and report back.
