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To: Polybius
Stop treating 21st Century American Christians as if they were 19th Century Czarist Russian peasants.

I don't trade in groupthink. This is about one man's vision, i.e. Mel Gibson's movie. Some Jews and Christians have liked the movie, some have not. My view of the movie and the PR campaign which led up to the release of the movie has has zero to do with how I feel about Christians in general, which is that I have always seen Christians as my brothers, and fellow Americans, if we are speaking of America. It's not a huge, life-altering issue for me.

61 posted on 03/09/2004 9:31:12 AM PST by veronica ("America will never seek a permission slip to defend the security of our people." GW Bush 1-20-04)
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To: veronica
I don't trade in groupthink. This is about one man's vision, i.e. Mel Gibson's movie. Some Jews and Christians have liked the movie, some have not. My view of the movie and the PR campaign which led up to the release of the movie has has zero to do with how I feel about Christians in general, which is that I have always seen Christians as my brothers, and fellow Americans, if we are speaking of America. It's not a huge, life-altering issue for me.

Well, guess what Veronica, it is a huge thing for the American Christian Freepers that have been FreepMailing me to thank me for articulating their beliefs in defense of constant charges of "anti-Semitism".

These Christians tell me that these constant charges of anti-Semitism where there is none are making them frustrated and angry and they are puzzled as to why they are the recipient of such accusations. They also see it as very damaging to religious Christian-Jewish relations in America.

If you don't "trade in groupthink", then I presume you have gone and seen the movie yourself instead of relying on what others who have called it "anti-Semetic" have said about it.

In the post I replied to you on the other thread, you simply posted someone else's opinions of why it was "anti-Semitic".

I addressed each one of those charges, point by point, on Post 412 on that thread but you never addressed the issue. You simply keep parrotting the anti-Semitic charge.

And what am I in regards to religion? A very poor Catholic on good days and an agnostic most of the time.

66 posted on 03/09/2004 10:29:54 AM PST by Polybius
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