Neo-Nazi Confesses to Bombings After Seeing 'Passion'

[billiefan2000]

http://www.zap2it.com/movies/news/story/0,1259,---21025,00.html

Neo-Nazi Confesses to Bombings After Seeing 'Passion'

Mon, Mar 29, 2004, 08:03 AM PT


LOS ANGELES (Zap2it.com) - Mel Gibson's "The Passion of the Christ" has made another man confess to a crime.

A Norwegian neo-Nazi has admitted to two bombings against anarchist squatters in Oslo in the mid-'90s, reports Reuters.

The 41-year-old Johnny Olsen's confession resulted in a charge of arson. There were no fatalities from the 1994 and 1995 bombings.





Attorney Fridtjof Feydt acknowledges that Olsen is concerned with redemption, confirming, "The trigger that made him go to police and confess was that movie."

Recently, a Texas man who also saw the film confessed that he killed his pregnant girlfriend in January. The film has been criticized as glorifying graphic violence. "Passion" has earned approximately $315 million at the domestic box office in its first 34 days in release.

[Cleopatra]

Hi Billie, I hope you are doing well.

You haven't posted any comments with the article and we are left to our presumptions regarding your opinion. :) Correct me if I am wrong but it seems that you believe that the religious nature of this film has cathartic effects on those who have committed a crime in the past.

To my knowledge ( but I am not a psychologist) we don't have statistics as to what make people confess a crime they have committed in the past but we won't be far from truth if we assume that usually is related with a metaphysical fear that is triggered by a strong emotion. So, I wasn't surpirzed to read those news, I just wondered how many criminals confess crimes on a daily basis without being reported to the news.

This in my opinion doesn't give a particular value to the movie.

[triadboy]

I imagine this film has a profound effect on people under the delusion of Jesus.

Additionally, this movie should have an effect on humans in general, since this is the classic dying god-man tale, that for some reason is imprinted on our unconscious.

[Skeptical Greg]

So what is the moral of the story here ?

What I hear, is that anything goes, as long as you feel sorry for it later and it doesn't hurt if watching someone get the crap beat out of them for two hours, makes you decide to fess' up..

Praise Jesus...

[evildave]

Originally posted by triadboy
I imagine this film has a profound effect on people under the delusion of Jesus.

Additionally, this movie should have an effect on humans in general, since this is the classic dying god-man tale, that for some reason is imprinted on our unconscious.

More like drilled in since birth.

[PogoPedant]

Just a quick note: The anarchist squatters are neither anarchists nor squatters. They call themselves Blitz. The house that was bombed was, and still is, used as a recording studio, a cafe, and a rallying point for whatever political outrage is en vougue at the time. The Blitz represent your typical lefty loonie teenager (and slightly above). The Blitz house is used for free with permission from the Oslo City Council, allthough the Council is always trying to find new ways of throwing them.

[Lothian]

Billie,

Fantastic idea. The legal process has proved a cumbersome expensive process prone to error, that appears to serve the purpose of filling the pockets of lawyers rather than dispensing justice.

You are right. All we need to do is to send any suspected criminal in the cinema, and when they come out; convict those that confess and free those that don’t.

For $5 we get a fair justice system that would allow us to put all those courtrooms to a much better purpose, and make the lawyers find a real jobs, like a projectionist maybe?

[Abdul Alhazred]

Originally posted by triadboy
I imagine this film has a profound effect on people under the delusion of Jesus...

If it gets such people to behave themselves, and own up to their crimes, then it's OK by me.

Yes I have seen it. But I don't have any crimes to confess, or any "soul" to give to Jesus.

I didn't enjoy watching the film, but I'm glad I saw it.

[Filippo Lippi]

That quote in full -

"I confess. What to? What ever you got, just don't make sit through that again!"

[Chaos]

Originally posted by Fillipo Lippi
That quote in full -

"I confess. What to? What ever you got, just don't make sit through that again!"

Oh, yes, the wonderful effectiveness of torture. Thumbscrews and glowing coals are SO medieval... :D

[headscratcher4]

Billie: my impression is that you are an evangelical protestant, even a fundumentalist or literalist. Indeed, you've previously evinced some hostility to Catholicism. YOu realize that this movie is a very "catholic" vehicle for evangilization? Indeed, it is a very counter-reformation view of Jesus and what his mission is, as well as a very catholic interpreation of the Gospel of Mathew...one that likely would have troubled Calvin, Luther and many outher philosophers of protestantism. In short, this confession will lead to "belief" in a christian doctrine that you, yourself, have dismissed.

Unless I am wrong, for example, do you believe that a practicing and professing Catholic is saved and will go to heaven?

If not, than this movie saves no souls, brings no one closer to Jesus (save by the delusion that they are "saved") other than through bringing them closer to a catholic doctrine that you believe leads to damnation.

So, what is your point?

[frisian]

Originally posted by triadboy
I imagine this film has a profound effect on people under the delusion of Jesus.


Please provide empirical proof that it is a delusion.

[Suezoled]

Originally posted by frisian


Please provide empirical proof that it is a delusion.

Well, look at you.

Edited to say: This is a joke. It's not a serious statement. Don't be make like a business astrologer and take it as a real story.

[frisian]

Originally posted by Suezoled


Well, look at you.

Edited to say: This is a joke. It's not a serious statement. Don't be make like a business astrologer and take it as a real story.

Eh?

My bad, I thought there was some serious thought here, apparently I am under a delusion.

:p

[frisian]

Duh, thanks Sue. I understand now, when people on this forum state that religious belief is a delusion they are merely joking, they don't have evidence to assert such logically.

Thanks!

[daenku32]

So Christian Right is now going to make Passions a standard film to be shown every morning before the start of first class?

[Suezoled]

Originally posted by frisian
Duh, thanks Sue. I understand now, when people on this forum state that religious belief is a delusion they are merely joking, they don't have evidence to assert such logically.

Thanks!

Your extrapolation has resulted in an incorrect conclusion. Perhaps you are after all delusional.

[frisian]

Originally posted by Suezoled


Your extrapolation has resulted in an incorrect conclusion. Perhaps you are after all delusional.

Perhaps, could you tell the difference?

:p