Smaller, shorter and as gently cut as a brand-new baby boy, the edited version of Mel Gibson's "Passion of the Christ" opened in theaters on Friday with none of the furor that greeted the film on its original theatrical release. This new edition, titled "The Passion Recut," clocks in at a scant six minutes shorter than the original two hours, with most of the trims taken from the notoriously gruesome scourging scene. No longer do chunks of flesh fly across the screen, though blood still splatters and sprays with the same luxuriant excess as it does in "Kill Bill: Vol. 1."