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Martin Scorsese's Movie Silence Spoilers

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Spoilers, the movie has been out for a few years now.



Bishop Baron on Silence.

So the Bishop says he likes one scene were the parishioners refuse to deny Christianity as they're tortured by the Japanese government. There's a big scene were the officials have crucified a half dozen parishioners in the surf. They all drown as the tide comes in.

The movie takes place in the 15-1600 hundreds, I think.

But he doesn't like a later scene where the priest stepped on the image of Christ. You see, the Japanese officials had the priest locked in a cage while a dozen or so parishioners were tortured before him. They officials hung these parishioners upside down, with their heads in holes dug in the ground. To keep them alive, the officials cut slits in the necks of the parishioners so that blood would leak out and pressure was relieved.

So the Japanese officials tell the priest, that he can end the suffering of his parishioners if he would only step on the image of Jesus.

At first the Priest refuses. Then Jesus speaks to him and tells him to go ahead and step on him.

So in the end the priest does step on the image of Jesus.

Bishop Baron doesn't like this. He says maybe it wasn't Jesus that spoke to the priest, maybe it was the devil.

Isn't it something that Jesus would say though? He wouldn't want all those parishioners to be tortured to death, would he?
 
swing_voter said:
Spoilers, the movie has been out for a few years now.



Bishop Baron on Silence.

So the Bishop says he likes one scene were the parishioners refuse to deny Christianity as they're tortured by the Japanese government. There's a big scene were the officials have crucified a half dozen parishioners in the surf. They all drown as the tide comes in.

The movie takes place in the 15-1600 hundreds, I think.

But he doesn't like a later scene where the priest stepped on the image of Christ. You see, the Japanese officials had the priest locked in a cage while a dozen or so parishioners were tortured before him. They officials hung these parishioners upside down, with their heads in holes dug in the ground. To keep them alive, the officials cut slits in the necks of the parishioners so that blood would leak out and pressure was relieved.

So the Japanese officials tell the priest, that he can end the suffering of his parishioners if he would only step on the image of Jesus.

At first the Priest refuses. Then Jesus speaks to him and tells him to go ahead and step on him.

So in the end the priest does step on the image of Jesus.

Bishop Baron doesn't like this. He says maybe it wasn't Jesus that spoke to the priest, maybe it was the devil.

Isn't it something that Jesus would say though? He wouldn't want all those parishioners to be tortured to death, would he?
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True because the image is lifeless, not because they are being persecuted...

"Every man acts unreasonably and without knowledge.
Every metalworker will be put to shame because of the carved image;
For his metal image is a falsehood,
And there is no spirit in them." Jeremiah 10:14

“Happy are you when people reproach you and persecute you and lyingly say every sort of wicked thing against you for my sake. Rejoice and be overjoyed, since your reward is great in the heavens, for in that way they persecuted the prophets prior to you." Matthew 5:11,12
 
swing_voter said:
Spoilers, the movie has been out for a few years now.



Bishop Baron on Silence.

So the Bishop says he likes one scene were the parishioners refuse to deny Christianity as they're tortured by the Japanese government. There's a big scene were the officials have crucified a half dozen parishioners in the surf. They all drown as the tide comes in.

The movie takes place in the 15-1600 hundreds, I think.

But he doesn't like a later scene where the priest stepped on the image of Christ. You see, the Japanese officials had the priest locked in a cage while a dozen or so parishioners were tortured before him. They officials hung these parishioners upside down, with their heads in holes dug in the ground. To keep them alive, the officials cut slits in the necks of the parishioners so that blood would leak out and pressure was relieved.

So the Japanese officials tell the priest, that he can end the suffering of his parishioners if he would only step on the image of Jesus.

At first the Priest refuses. Then Jesus speaks to him and tells him to go ahead and step on him.

So in the end the priest does step on the image of Jesus.

Bishop Baron doesn't like this. He says maybe it wasn't Jesus that spoke to the priest, maybe it was the devil.

Isn't it something that Jesus would say though? He wouldn't want all those parishioners to be tortured to death, would he?
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Why wouldn't jesus want that? If life were about avoiding suffering, God really sucksx at his job.

However, I agree it’s ok to step on the image, just not for the same rationale you seem to imply.
 
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