Don't Strangle the Anointed One! Husband Almost Kills Wife...

In Britain a Christian couple wanted to celebrate his birthday by having a nice dinner, a bottle of wine, and share a viewing of Mel Gibson's movie The Passion of Christ. Boy, that sounds like a great birthday celebration to me. I don't think they'll be doing it again, though, because he subsequently tried to strangle her. He would have, too, if she hadn't reminded him that she was one of "God's anointed people."

Just how many of these "anointed" people are there running around and should we be worried about them?

Mrs Watson left the room, and her 44-year-old husband became so upset by the graphic depiction of the Crucifixion that he pulled the leads out of the television and went upstairs.

His wife then decided to watch the God Channel and went to ask him why the television was not working.

Yvonne Jobling, for the prosecution, said that an argument developed, and Watson accused his wife of being evil. He grabbed his wife by the throat and she fell to the floor. She said: “His grip was so tight she was unable to speak, but she then managed to say something of a religious nature which seemed to cause him to relax his grip.”

Source: The Times

Although I don't know anything more than what's in the news report, I'm suspecting that the Watsons are Protestant and aren't accustomed to the violent depictions of the crucifixion which have been common in Catholic tradition. Catholic writers and artists have almost reveled in the blood and gore which they think Jesus had to endure — the more brutal the crucifixion, the more guilty people could be made to feel for being responsible for it because they are sinners. The concept of "Catholic Guilt" isn't a myth, after all.

Now what's this about being anointed?

“The Devil was in the house that night. I had to remind Michael that I am one of God’s anointed people. It was the devil that made him do that.”

This I don't really get. What makes her "anointed"? Isn't he also "anointed," which would suggest that he was acting in an appropriate manner?

 

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