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No Oscar for The Passion.(Letters To The Editor)(Letter to the Editor)
In your recent issue on the "Culture War in Hollywood" (March 21), you rightly deplore the fact that The Passion of The Christ did not get an Oscar, not even a nomination for a major Oscar award. You write, "The hostility of the cultural elites to Christianity ... is now so explicit, palpable, and omnipresent that it is ridiculous to pretend otherwise."
While fully agreeing with your assessments, from another point of view I can say that I am happy that The Passion was nowhere in the running for an Oscar! Why? In view of the situation that now reigns in Hollywood, as you so aptly describe it, The Passion is far above and beyond the values espoused by the personages who grovel in ...
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