Just in Time for Easter

Mel Gibson will please new audiences with a re-edited and less brutal version of The Passion of the Christ in time for the Easter holiday. I found the original film profoundly moving but considered it to be more than my wife would be comfortable with. As such, she missed both the beauty and brutality of it. Mr Gibson is one of the few in Hollywood that understands that audiences are not homogenous. The submission of his masterpiece to the editors' knife was something I'm sure he painfully considered. He made a good choice. He serves those that felt compelled to forego the film due to personal sensitivities about violence and/or their feelings for the Christ.

Perhaps they that abhor violence and love the Christ so much that they were unwilling to see the original deserve the film more than any other group. After all, that's what He wants from us.