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These days, film critics who hailed the gritty reality of the Oscar-nominated vio-flicks "Monster" and "Mystic River" just a few months ago, hike to the moral high ground over "The Passion."

I went over to "Rottentomatoes.com" to see what their round-up of critics gave this movie. It ended up with a rotten tomato, and the critics were mostly upset about the violence.

I then went over to "Kill Bill Vol. 1" to check-out those reviews, as I know that the violence in that movie was a topic of conversation. It got great reviews and the critics were practically praising the use of violence in that movie.

Bottom line: It is not the violence that is upsetting them, it is the Christian theme and positive message of Christ that is bothering them. They are floundering, trying any excuse they can come up with to keep people out of the theaters. The reviews are simply a reflection of the anti-Christian bigotry that the media in general display.

The liberals' fuss over the violence in The Passion is absolute nonsense according to Hollywood standards. Last week, I watched Cold Mountain, which portrayed a gruesome version of the Battle of the Crater. Body parts flew in all directions, soldiers were crushed, the Yankees and the Rebels were up to their ankles in blood. There was little criticism of the gore in that movie, not to mention dozens of others.

As to anti-Semitism, this charge is also nonsense. By far, the most brutal treatment Jesus received was at the hands of the Romans, not the Jews. The actors who played the Romans were clearly European in appearance and spoke Latin in a manner that made it sound like modern Italian. Of course, Caiphas and most of the Sanhedrin were shown as villains, as the Gospel narratives indicate. But since when does showing Jews as villains make something anti-Semitic? What about the negative media portrayals of Meyer Lansky, Roy Cohn, Michael Milken, etc.? No one would argue that their negative portrayals were anti-Semitic.

Mel Gibson essentially sacrificed his future movie career to produce The Passion. All the caterwauling and blustery indignation of the liberal media have not prevented this movie's financial success. Had the liberals been smart, they would have ignored the film. By their relentless and obstinate criticism, they increased the polarization between those who hold to Christian or traditional values and those who embrace hedonism, secular humanism, and moral relativism.

Bottom line: It is not the violence that is upsetting them, it is the Christian theme and positive message of Christ that is bothering them.

I agree completely. The critics don't hate the movie because they think it's anti-Semitic. They hate it because they know it's pro-Christian.

My friend, we all know Christans are the enemies of goodness, of light, and of tolerance. We can't have a movie that sees anything good in them and in the founder of the Christian faith. That my friends, is the ultimate manifestation of intolerance - actually well that's the essence of Christianity. And now y'all understand how the Left sees Christians and their faith and why they work overtime to stamp out the last public vestige of it in America. They're not about to let a movie like The Passion set them back in this endeavor.