I saw a copy of The Last Temptation of Christ – VHS old school, no less! – and asked if I could rent it. So of course, what does forbidding something from someone make them want to do? It makes them want to have it, of course.Īnyway, I spent the weekend with my Dad during all this brouhaha, and we went to rent movies at Blockbuster one evening.
I will give you the context of that scene later in this blog, but oh the horror! My mom fell in with the ridiculous mob mentality of many parents back then and refused to allow my sister and I to see it. The movie came out in the mid-1980s and caused a huge ruckus in the Catholic Church, the reason being is that the movie – and the book it was based on – showed a scene of Jesus having sex with Mary Magdalene. I didn’t get kicked out because I was a troublemaker or kissing boys behind the school or anything sinful that would warrant getting the boot from good old St. This is the book and movie for which I was kicked out of Catholic school back in 9th grade.
In honor of Easter Sunday, I decided to reacquaint myself with The Last Temptation of Christ, a book that has a very soft spot in my heart.
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