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"Both sides should realize that if all Jews really were personally responsible for the crucifixion of Christ, then every Christian should love every Jew, since without Christ's death, God's wrath would have fallen on each of us instead."

EXACTLY! And while watching the movie THE PASSION OF THE CHRIST they never make it look like the Jews are the ones killing him. Satan is weaving in and out of the mob. To me it was more like Satan was trying to temp Christ to give up, instead of going to the cross. He tried beating, and everything he could, to physically stop Christ. Christ called on supernatural strength to make it through, to the cross, where He died for all of us. Then He rose again. He won the battle. The fight is over, the victory won! Even Judas, helped, in his own sad vile way, because Jesus had to do what He did that day.

The only person named as a Jew in the movie was the big strong man who helped carry the cross. I didn't see any evil Jews in the movie. Growing up Christian I have NEVER thought for one moment that Jews killed Jesus.

I have always thought it was sad that Jews didn't acknowledge Christ as the Messiah, knowing that will bar them from entering Heaven... but then again... I know that my parents taught me Christianity. I think whatever my parents taught me I would believe, whether it was the Christian faith, Islam, Jewish faith. I believe in the faith of my grandparents. I wonder how many of us do?

" I didn't see any evil Jews in the movie"

Well, there was Caiphas and the handful of pompous elites of the Sanhedrin, but I did not see them portrayed as being any worse than the Romans who carried out the deed, nor than Herod's court. All of these characters revealed man's capacity for inhumanity and utter depravity and it was irrelevant whether the "men" were Jew or Gentile. It was like every evil that ever touched the human race, before or since, was drawn to and clarified at that point in history, frozen in one moment in time so that the sin of everyone involved seemed exaggerated and distorted. To say that the movie was anti-Semitic is just plain silly. Even Jesus said, "no man takes my life from me...I lay it down willingly."