[news] Testament of the Death Squads: Good Christ, Bad Christ

[Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed]

(A)s a direct result of US policy (in the 1980's), more than three hundred thousand Central Americans, many of them devout Christians, would be killed and tortured, and over a million driven into exile. In a way, the New Right’s crusade in Central America was a preview of the tormented Jesus that premiered two decades later in The Passion of the Christ -- and, despite (Mel) Gibson’s drunken dissent, is today on world tour in...Abu Ghraib and the killing fields of Iraq and now Lebanon.

  


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