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To: af_vet_1981
The movie is not the book. The book is not the movie.

The movie is being criticized for elements that are present in the Gospels as well. We all recognize the problems with anti-Semitism among Christians in the past. Collective responsibility was explicitly condemned by the Church at Vatican II, and the Pope tried to "purify memory" with an apology at the millennium. Foxman might justly criticize that this teaching is not more loudly mentioned, and I personally would not even object to having a quotation from "Nostra Aetate" in either the opening or closing credits of the movie. But for Foxman to say that mere presentation of the Gospel story, in which members of the Jewish Establishment were instrumental in Jesus' death, as in and of itself anti-Semitic, is simply ridiculous and an attempt to make a politically-correct falsification of history. Of course the Pharisees, the Sadducees and the Sanhedrin thought Jesus was a false teacher and a heretic, since he claimed to be the Messiah and differed in his interpretation of the Mosaic law. The Talmuds, which stem from the Pharisaical Rabbinical tradition, denounce Jesus as a false teacher and a black magician. These are just facts. Yes, they can be misused to support the notion of collective punishment, but the facts themselves do not support such a notion, and the Church has condemned such a notion. I think Foxman is actually making the situation much worse than it is by facile accusation of anti-Semitism when there has not been any such thing.

109 posted on 02/03/2004 1:34:05 PM PST by Unam Sanctam
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To: Unam Sanctam
collective punishment = collective responsibility
110 posted on 02/03/2004 1:35:25 PM PST by Unam Sanctam
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