THE British Board of Film Censors – no longer hamstrung by “blasphemy” concerns now that this “crime” has been abolished in the UK – has approved, without cuts, a pornographic film called Passio. It has been given an R18 rating.
Featuring Danny Fox as a homosexual Jesus, Passio – full title: Passio: Domini Nostri Secundum Matthaeum – is a no-holes-barred attempt by director Matthias Von Fistenberg to replicate the “sexing up” of icons like Jesus, which he said took place at the start of the Renaissance.
In approximately 1500 AD, after more than 1000 years of repressed aethetics, the Church began to see the role of the body and the flesh as both a problem and a promise within the narrative arts aimed at attracting new worshippers.
We always wondered why Jesus was called The Horn of Salvation. Now we know why!
You can see more details about Passio here – but be WARNED, as the site contains scenes that will upset those of a sensitive or religious nature.
The BBFC has had only banned one film that it thought might be blasphemous: Nigel Wingrove’s Visions of Ecstacy. But after the repeal of the blasphemy law he was invited to re-submit the film to the censors.
On a related note, see Gay Jesus Exhibition Attacked here, and Pat Condell on Jesus’s sexuality here.
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