"My point is you accept the role of the Jews in your Testment as a matter of faith. There is no proof or dis-proof of faith. Your statement reveals an unwillingness to consider the evidence. What good is it for a blind man to argue with eyewitnesses? Fortunately truth does not depend on your opinion and facts remain facts regardless of whether you consider them or not. If you had bothered to check out the link I provided, you would have noticed these words:
"On the eve of Passover they hung Jesus of Nazareth," said the passage, which was censored in the 16th century to evade the wrath of Christians. "The herald went out before him for 40 days saying, 'Jesus goes forth to be stoned, because he has practiced magic, enticed and led astray Israel. Anyone who knows anything in his favor, let him come and declare concerning him.' And they found nothing in his favor." If armies of Jewish and Christian scholars insist on arguing about Mel Gibson's explosive movie "The Passion of The Christ," it would help if they were candid and started dealing with the hard passages in Jewish texts as well as the Christian scriptures.
My primary concern is that Jews as a whole not get tarred with this accusation again. The Christian canon is of no concern to me. Gad man! Why not accuse us of stoking the ovens? No sane person blames all of the Jews for the death of Christ! This unwarranted paranoia exists only in the minds of the delirious or in the black hearts of troublemakers. If you really believe your own words, I suggest you go to the grocery store, get a week's supply of food and proceed to hide under the bed so no moviegoer will find you and dip you in tar.
Good grief.
Good unbelievably ignorant grief.
I don't accuse you of having any ill will and I agree that no sane person holds those views. I am concerned with the ones who are not sane. Now I don't think their number is large but I do think they exist and that they can cause trouble if the want to. Do I think they will cause alot of trouble? I don't know. Would I hold you responsible for any trouble? Absolutely not! On balance I expect the movie's impact to be overwelmingly positive and I welcome it. I expect that any trouble will be dealt as isolated occurances and dealt with on a case by case basis. To the extent that groups like the ADL try to link trouble to Gibson or the larger Christian community, this Jew would tell them to sit down and shut up.
As far as you thinking I am blind I will say this (yet again): I will not tell you what to believe or that what you think is wrong. It is not my place to tell you what your faith is and ought to constitute. I would only ask for the same courtesy in return. I think that's fair. To the extent that leads you to think it is no good to argue with me then don't because I'm not looking to press you on it at point in the thread.