mm as the anti-christ

ok, so mm got into a brief argument during sunday school, re: the passion of mel gibson.......a guest and her mother were ooohing and ahing about just how profound their experience had been watching the passion...........which was just fine...until they started in about just how biblical it was..........'it was just like it was in the bible......'......well, i have been studying/teaching the new testament for 16+ years......and i do know that the line in luke, for example...is 'and they took him outside and flogged him'.....just one line...........no 45 minute descriptive interlude of horrific brutality.............and.......every gospel account that we have was written after 70 ad........., which means that none are first-person accounts................luke was written in ad 85.......and most commentators agree that each of the gospels was slanted toward a particular audience...with episodes in christ's life included or omitted in order to fulfill a particular agenda........luke, for example, was written for the gentiles, not for the jews..............i fear that i was a bit harsh in my discussion of 'the opposing viewpoint'......but there it is.......i was quick enough to quote the new yorker article....as if this was not my radical left-wing opinion....................