His normative? "Stand fast" and "set the record straight."
UPDATE: David Bentley Hart chimes in.
Saturday, June 5, 2010
Barron - 'Agora'
Fr Robert Barron comments on the new film, "Agora". Note well that Fr Barron portends that the wave of anti-Christian sentiments has, as evidenced in this film filled with misinformation, now moved into popular culture and may, in fact, bring on active persecution of Christians.
UPDATE: David Bentley Hart chimes in.
UPDATE: David Bentley Hart chimes in.
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One might expect that a most talented film director would understand the power of the images he has selected.
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Moreover, as published in the Washington Times a couple of weeks ago:
"Over and over again, elements are added to the story [in 'Agora'] that are not in the source material: the destruction of the library, the stoning of the Jews in the theatre, Cyril condemning Hypatia's teaching because she is a woman, the heliocentric 'breakthrough' and Hypatia's supposed irreligiousity. And each of these invented elements serves to emphasise the idea that she was a freethinking innovator who was murdered because her learning threatened fundamentalist bigots. The fact that [director Alejandro] Amenabar needs to rest this emphasis on things he has made up and mixed into the real story demonstrates how baseless this interpretation is.
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Can Amenabar not know that he is fabricating a blood libel? ... just asking.
Hypatia and 'Agora' Redux,
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