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.

[sfRummygirl]

You're right, actually. My church is both evangelical and fundamentalist. Most are.

[DentsRun]

It is my belief that Left-wing Ashkenzi Jews romanticize Communism because Communism was the political force that was going to overthrow the hated Czar and grandpa emmigrated to America before the family could actually experience Communism's evils like we Catholic and "Jewban" Cuban Americans did.

It was more than that. After the revolution Lenin wanted to reward those Jewish Bolsheviks who had done so much to help the revolution succeed. And, more to the point perhaps, he needed, in Solzhenitsyn's words, "intelligent, educated and sober" clerks to staff the bureaucracies (which had all previously been run by supporters of the Tsar.) Lenin's solution was to invite ordinary Jews to become communist bureaucrats, which they did in large numbers. This is why so many of the atom spies of the forties and fifties were Jews. It wasn't just that they had an idealistic love of communism. By helping Soviet Russia they were also helping their fellow Jews.

Interestingly enough many religious Jews tried to warn secular Jews against working for the commuinists (or becoming party members). Having a longer view of history than secular Jews, religious Jews understood that communism would eventually crumble and when it did, the Russian people, who had long been oppressed by communism, would blame their suffering on the Jews.

[sfRummygirl]

Thank you so much for posting this. You have expressed almost exactly the frustration I feel. The only thing I would say, is that the Protestant faction you describe is not only in the 'bible belt'. (I'm in the San Francisco bay area. Yes, I know. It is pretty bad over here.)
You have nailed the left wing jewish thinking right on the head. I see it every day over here.
I hope this post of yours causes other jews to come out and voice their similar feelings.

And, as a protestant Christian, I have to say, I am tired. I don't know how much longer I can try to stand for people who hate me. (Refering to the liberal jews, and those who want to bring this war on Christianity).
I don't know how much more I can take. And I know others like me who are retreating.

[SJackson]

BTTT. The Jews perpetrated the Holocaust you know. Just by being Jews. /sarcasm

Should read

BTTT. The Jews perpetrated the Holocaust you know. Just by being Jews. /sarcasm

[bvw]

"with other movies."

It is all a movie. You are right. No less fictionalized as pure a product of CURRENT imagination than was say, Blade Runner.

[Ciexyz]

Why should Christians constantly have to defend ourselves in this culture? There were many unfortunate incidents of vandalism of synagogues, anti-Semitic graffiti, BEFORE the movie The Passion. There's always been creeps and ignorant thugs around, unfortunately. Why should I as a Christian have to defend my right to see a religious movie that tells the Gospel story?

[Ciexyz]

So did these people who blame it on The Passion have a video camera and did they follow the perps out of the movie theater as they went on this anti-Semitic rampage? (/sarcasm off)

[sfRummygirl]

There is a club out here, that is one of the headquarters for the Communist party get-togethers, and all the liberal benefits. It's in Berkeley, and the name of it is....
Ashkenaz.
HA!

[Polybius]

Thank you so much for posting this. You have expressed almost exactly the frustration I feel. The only thing I would say, is that the Protestant faction you describe is not only in the 'bible belt'. (I'm in the San Francisco bay area. Yes, I know. It is pretty bad over here.) You have nailed the left wing jewish thinking right on the head. I see it every day over here. I hope this post of yours causes other jews to come out and voice their similar feelings. And, as a protestant Christian, I have to say, I am tired. I don't know how much longer I can try to stand for people who hate me. (Refering to the liberal jews, and those who want to bring this war on Christianity).

Well, hang in there, Rummygirl. Just remember, the operative word is not "Jewish". The operative word is "Left-wing".

Some of the most hateful and obnoxious people I have met are Left-wings Jews.

But, then again.......

Some of the most hateful and obnoxious people I have met are Left-wing Catholics.

Some of the most hateful and obnoxious people I have met are Left-wing Blacks.

Some of the most hateful and obnoxious people I have met are Left-wing Protestants.

Some of the most hateful and obnoxious people I have met are Left-wing atheists.

There's a pattern there. ;-)

[Salem]

"This schism between Jews and Christians only empowers the common enemy we both fight."

"They think so. And guess what, the schism exists only between the few who were schismized before the film. It gives them an excuse to come out of the closet, that's all."

It is truly incredible the impact this film is having on the American cultural discourse today; likewise, the wisdom, caliber, levelheadedness, and spiritual insight in response to it modeled by the men and women of Free Republic as representatives of the Christian/Jewish/Conservative community is, I am convinced, being mirrored corporately in this nation as well. Of course the mainstream media will continue to emphasize the negative, even though it is in the minority.

Let 'em.

Keep standing tall, people.


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[truthandjustice1]

Enjoy your posts. However, I have no interest in pursuing the link. Thanks again!

[Lady Heron]

I cannot believe you people. This incident is not the end of the world but you defend a movie to the point where you don't care if it sparked this incident. Maybe it didn't. How would you prove it? But the vandilism is not a joke. And you don't care much about it as long as a Christian did not do it.

Unreal.

When have you ever heard a Christian condone anti-semitic vandilism???? Guess you missed the point of the Christians anger!!! It is quite ok for this journalist to blame "The Passion" and Christians without proof for the attack on the synagog, but not ok for Christians to to get mad when attacked unfairly without proof! Looks like you are the one that does not question the agenda behind the reporter's attack on Christians or is it that you can not see this also as an attack on Christians???? How do you prove it was a Christian attack, or do you not need proof to slander Christians.

Unreal.

[mollynme]

FWIW
This particular synagogue was involved in organizing the pro-America, pro-Bush, pro-troop rally on the steps of the state capitol last year. The few members I have met have been great, morally conservative people. At least one of these people were also present at the protest in front of the Denver church with the stupid sign.
It might be their high profile that brought them to the attention of the sickos.

[sfRummygirl]

Yes, the main word is left-wing. Although there are about three 'conservative' jews here that are equally as bad. Which is a shame. Christophobia is a very strange thing, I am learning.

[spectacularbid2003]

Regarding our misguided media:

For our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the powers of this dark world and against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly realms. Ephesians 6:12

We are at war. We always have been, and we always will be until the merciful return of the Christ.

[veronica]

Christophobia is a very strange thing, I am learning.

So is using Christ to promote an agenda which is less than Christ-like....

THANK GOD FOR KRAUTHAMMER

From Andrew Sullivan's site...."Charles Krauthammer has never written a dumb column, to my knowledge. Even on emotional subjects such as civil marriage, he brings to the debate a calm reasoning that wins the respect of his opponents as well as his supporters. And that is also why his searing criticism of Mel Gibson's inflammatory and idiosyncratic version of the Passion is so helpful.

I'm tired of people believing that Gibson is representing Catholicism. He isn't. He is a rebel against Catholicism, specifically the reformed, open, repentant Catholicism of the Second Vatican Council.

Gibson doesn't recognize the authority of the current Pope; he doesn't recognize the current mass - the central ritual of Catholics across the world. People are mistaken in believing that he merely prefers the Latin mass; he doesn't. He favors the Tridentine mass, a relic.

He believes that all non-Catholics are going to hell, another heresy.

He is clearly and palpably anti-Semitic. His movie is an act of aggression against Jews, and, as such, is an act of aggression against Catholicism and the current Pope's heroic efforts to confront the shameful history of the Church with regard to the Jewish people.

Charles notes how Satan walks and lives and breathes among the Jews in the movie.

He doesn't mention that young Jewish children actually turn into demons at one point in the movie, a device that only students of medieval anti-Semitism would notice. In fact, one reason that today's viewers do not notice the hatred of Jews in the movie is because, mercifuly, they are not familiar with the medieval tropes that signal evil and that Gibson trafficks in. Gibson knows.

And he knows how his movie will play in those parts of the world where anti-Semitic tropes are still recognized. Notice I am not accusing people of good faith who have found inspiration in the story portraayed in this movie of being anti-Semitic.

I'm sure that many if not almost all of that devition is genuine and not motivated by anything but spiritual hope and reflection.

But that cannot disguise the malice that lies beneath. And that Gibson would use the message of Christ to advance it is what makes it doubly unforgivable."

[DestroytheDemocrats]

It is quite ok for this journalist to blame "The Passion" and Christians without proof for the attack on the synagog,"

The jounalists did not blame the Passion, they reported that they had a calls from from people who saw the damage and those people blamed the Passion."

"but not ok for Christians to to get mad when attacked unfairly without proof!"

Where in the article does it say that Christains caused it? Where did I say they did? I said people should care about it no matter who caused it and not make a joke of it.

"Looks like you are the one that does not question the agenda behind the reporter's attack on Christians."

Once again Christians whine for no good reason. There see no agenda or attack on Christians in this article. It is a report about an attack on Jews!!! Understand that part. Jews were attacked. Then THEY attacked the movie. Fun HUH? Thanks Mel.

[Qwinn]

The problem is that I saw the movie, I am agnostic, and I found all of Krauthammer and Sullivan's accusations to be utterly fraudulent.

Qwinn

[Dave Olson]

Who is the "we" in which you include yourself and what hate crimes did you see staged?

Assuming you're serious, I suggest you do a Google search on the keywords "false hate crime". You will see a list of websites that document them. The "we" includes anybody who has read them.

[truthandjustice1]

"treat the subject seriously in my Post 345 on this thread"

Well done!