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Re: "Humility is not something that our pop culture embraces." BINGO!

Your last graf -- "[b]ut liberals loved [Scorsese's film] because it dissed the Christians" -- seems to imply that K's novel doesn't diss Christians, or that there's some substantial thematic difference between Scorsese's film (which you’ve suggested “is probably trash”) and K's novel, which you’ve allowed is “really, very good.”

I'll confess that I’m troubled that someone who’d pen the following line – viz., “The writer has not seen the film, he's only read reports in the liberal press” – would excoriate a movie that he himself hasn’t seen. Is it possible that you’d refuse to see Scorsese’s Temptation simply because you experience a visceral dislike of the themes that occur and recur in his work? Surely, then, there’s no reason to await with fear and loathing the arrival of The Passion, which has been directed by a man -- Mr. Gibson -- who endorses an experience of Catholicism that makes Opus Dei-types such as Antonin Scalia appear downright progressive. It’s not possible that Mr. Audiophilander has rejected The Passion out-of-hand for many of the same reasons that you rejected Scorsese’s Temptation, is it?

FWIW, I thought Scorsese’s film – which I have seen, on several occasions, even -- surprisingly faithful to K's novel, especially given the scope (500+ pages, in my edition) of the latter. In the final analysis, I thought Scorsese's film no more disrespectful to Christians or Christianity than K's novel. YMMV – but you’ll never know until you see the movie, will you?

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