Luther

Tomorrow all the movie watchin' days will be over, but I have enjoyed this time immensely. Watched "Luther" tonight. An incredible picture about the giant's life, and the inception of the reformation. Joseph Fiennes has now played perhaps the two most important people of the past millenium: Shakespeare (Shakespeare in Love) and Luther. What a resume...

One note: I don't understand why this movie didn't get the kind of heat that "the Passion" received. They released at around the same time but I must have missed the raging non-protestants. I'm glad that it didn't but I'm puzzled. Did the hollywood elite feel like they were being double teamed? Did the ACLU feel overwhelmed? Maybe Michael Moore will make a movie about the grand spiritual conspiracy that's going on. Maybe he'll claim that Billy Graham and Mel Gibson were a part of a huge undercover conspiracy to flood the market with high quality Christian movies. I can just hear it now, "Come on America, put the pieces together!"

Comments

[FromTheMorning]

Probably didn't get the heat because it didn't outrage Jewist people, who in the media and Holywood seemed to make a stink about The Passion.

[matt tullos]

Seems like the Catholics would be up in arms. But maybe there is a greater sense of history in their eyes that the catholic church was historically indeed corrupt. I have many catholic friends and some of my favorite writers are Catholic but I don't have a clue about how they view the works of the Catholic church at that time in history.

[FromTheMorning]

My mom and my sister are Catholic. When the topic of Martin Luther comes up, they hesitantly admit that his grievances with the Church were legitimate (the big one being the selling of indulgences). They know he was right and the Church was wrong, so they don't argue it.

All they say is "Well, Luther wouldn't have left the Church today..."

But the Catholic Church (which they call 'the church') probably wouldn't be what it is today without Luther.

[matt tullos]

Very interesting insight. Thanks:-)