Denver Synagogue Vandalized(Passion of Christ Blamed)

9News .com (Denver) ^ | 3/6/2004 4:44:35 PM | Paola Farer

[woofie]

DENVER - A Denver synagogue was damaged with graffiti overnight. Swastikas were drawn on the synagogue on south Monaco Parkway.

The graffiti was in the doorway and across a sign. There were also several symbols drawn on the back wall of the building.

A holocaust survivor who saw the graffiti says it was almost too much to take. There was no official response available from the congregation Saturday, although several people who called 9NEWS to report the damage said that they blamed Mel Gibson’s movie “The Passion of the Christ” for rekindling anti-Semitism.

Members of the congregation will gather Sunday morning to start cleaning off the graffiti.

[janette]

Click my profile.......
Yes I'm German
I'm living here since 1996
We planned to stay 2 years
We started to love the STATES
We applied for the "Green Card"
We got the "Green Card" in Jan 2004
Now we are waiting 5 Years to apply for citizenship.
In between we paid more than 40 Mill.$ taxes.
We think, we are good future Members of this society.

[babygene]

"Well, Janette does have her point. I don't need to experience prostitution or murder to have the opinion that it is not a good thing."

To suggest that this movie is so bad as to be "child abuse", having never seen it, is over the top IMHO. If her opinion was that no kid should go to the movies or watch TV because of the violence, I would respect her opinion.

[maryz]

No Christian would do such a thing in this country. If anybody, it's most likely a leftist neo-Nazi. Or a teenager trying a new mischief.

That's what it usually is here in MA -- these things do happen here (serious enough to make the paper) once or twice a year and have been happening for years. (Christian churches get their share, too, usually satanic symbols.)

I still wouldn't put it past left-wingers to pull a Tawana Brawley, so to speak.

[Cold Heat]

definitely anti-nonliberal

this election may go down as the most vitriolic in modern history for the U.S.........

[patriciaruth]

Liberal Jews make little sense period

There is a certain segment of liberals who put their dreams of a secular socialist utopia above their country and their religion, whether Christian or Jewish.

[maryz]

Maybe we need seek no further for the perpetrators.

Well, they were certainly johnny-on-the-spot reporting it!

[babygene]

" In between we paid more than 40 Mill.$ taxes."

You paid $40 million in taxes in five years? How is that?

[patriciaruth]

That's funny. When I first heard about the windows being destroyed I wondered if it was done by the owners to stop making a cult landmark out of their property.

[janette]

common sense

[patriciaruth]

I was responding to an earlier remark of Janette's, not to her nightmares remark.

My husband has nightmares if he sees violence. He closed his eyes during the scourging, as he does for all violence in movies for a long time.

Yes, I think young children could have nightmares especially very young children who naturally have nightmares about maiming as they transition to different states of maturity. However, older children are different from each other and depending on the child, some could see this movie and be fine, where others would be upset, like many children were upset seeing the WTC collapse.

Child abuse? That's over the top, but Janette is European and they have more liberal views about corporal punishment and the like, and would be more inclined to call many things child abuse that the average American wouldn't.

[patriciaruth]

You paid $40 million in taxes in five years? How is that?

Bragging rights.

[patriciaruth]

For vitriol, I wonder what it was like in 1860, during the election of Lincoln, who was vilely hated and after whose election, Americans started shooting each other.

[janette]

PleaseNoMore........that is my dream.......please never again!!!!!!!!

[Cold Heat]

LOL! The election has just begun!

I thought we would go there in 2000. I was locked and loaded.

[janette]

just common sense, parental love and care and preparing and strengthen children for life

[stands2reason]

I thought "evangelical" meant practicing "evangelism" ---spreading the word. Fundamentalists don't do that?

[babygene]

"Yes, I think young children could have nightmares especially very young children who naturally have nightmares about maiming as they transition to different states of maturity."

Clearly you wouldn't take a 5 year old to see this movie. Probably not even a 10 tear old... It would be pointless unless they understood or were familar with the Gospel.

[Dataman]

There is a certain segment of liberals who put their dreams of a secular socialist utopia above their country and their religion, whether Christian or Jewish.

That's right, but this thread is about liberal Jews shining their spotlight on a movie while the wolf escapes.

[DentsRun]

According to the ADL there were 1500 anti-Semitic incidents in the country in 2002. That works out to about 30 per week (4 per day). So far "The Passion of the Christ" has been for 11 days. That means we should have seen 44 anti-Semitic incidents since the film came out. So far I've only heard of two--the brain-dead minister in the midwest who posted the "Jews killed Christ" sign and today's vandalizing of a synagogue. Given that there would normally be 44 incidents in any 11 day period anyway, it's hard to pin this synagogue incident on "The Passion of the Christ." In fact, when one considers the lack of reported incidents, it might very well be that Mel's movie has made the anti-Semitic incident rate go down, not up.

[White Eagle]

So now "THE MOVIE" did it! The movie probably got there by driving an SUV.