On his way out of the wilderness, Jesus struggles with the Devil over the fate of a family in crisis, setting himself up for a dramatic test.
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“If everything that happens to us lot is ‘God’s will’, then he’s an asshole.” - Darlin’, 2019
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But let us return to the third temptation. Its true content becomes apparent when we realize that throughout history it is constantly taking on new forms. The Christian empire attempted at an early stage to use the faith in order to cement political unity. The Kingdom of Christ was now expected to take the form of a political kingdom and its splendor. The powerlessness of faith, the earthly powerlessness of Jesus Christ, was to be given the helping hand of political military might. This temptation to use power to secure the faith has arisen again and again in varied forms throughout the centuries, and again and again faith has risked being suffocated in the embrace of power. This struggle for the freedom of the Church, the struggle to avoid identifying Jesus' Kingdom with any political structure, is one that had to be fought century after century. For the fusion of faith and political power always comes at a price: faith becomes the servant of power and must bend to its criteria.
- Pope Benedict XVI (Jesus of Nazareth: From the Baptism in the Jordan to the Transfiguration, pages 39-40)
Goncharov was fine and funny until it became clear that only like a dozen people on this site have ever actually watched a Scorsese movie and of that dozen about three have seen one that wasn’t goodfellas or the departed
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ohmygod Fuck i just realized. you know how andrey is essentially a judas figure to goncharov’s christ, especially in light of the film’s christian motifs & themes of predetermined fate… but The Thing Is that harvey kietel (andrey) actually went on to portray judas in scorsese’s the last temptation of christ in 1988. insane ??? i think yes