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got this off the net from an article, I think the writer was jewish, never-the-less, it illustrates what's going on. Its not the movie, its not Mel Gibson, its not even the Gospels...its Jesus. After over 2000 years its still all about Jesus Christ. We are blessed when they say all manner of things against us for His name's sake.........

"...That is just the problem. The Fourth Gospel is part of a nasty exchange of polemics between two sects of Judaism ... This obscure argument would have mere curiosity value except for two huge magnifiers.
First, these two sects were the only viable survivors from among the two or three dozen Jewish sects that had flourished in Jerusalem in the late Second Temple era. Then, in 70 AD, Rome destroyed the Temple and nearly levelled Jerusalem. Of all the forms of Judaism, only the descendants of the Pharisees adapted sufficiently to survive: The main group became the founders of modern Judaism, and a second bunch, a slightly off-brand set, the followers of Yeshua of Nazareth, became the forebears of Christianity.
Even so, the rivalry of these two groups would have been merely a cat fight in a Middle Eastern sandbox had not the Roman Empire turned Christian in the fourth century, a win for the Yeshua crowd. Suddenly, arcane polemics of the first century AD were broadcast empire-wide and eventually worked their influence on governmental policies in dozens of Western countries for several centuries."

...ok lefties, got any new arguments? The ones you are putting up are kinda old...(Eph 6:12)