[Torie]

Agnostic one gives the film a clean bill of health. Agnostic two has not seen it yet. I am not sure either agnostic knows enough of the nuances of the texts and the religious history, to fathom all the subtleties. But that does not worry me much. The audiences don't either, and the charge is that the audiences, the masses, will be suffused with a bad and bigoted spirit. If they are, it will not be due to Medieval tropes, or subtle changes from the gospels. It will be due to compelling visual images that depict Jews as a people as Satanic and as killers. Absent that, the intellectuals are just full of themselves.

[Qwinn]

"I am not sure either agnostic knows enough of the nuances of the texts and the religious history, to fathom all the subtleties."

Agnostic One is quite well versed in his Bible history. Actually, I've had quite a few Catholics on this board state that Agnostic One has a better grasp of Catholic teaching than most Catholics do. (Agnostic One was raised Catholic and became agnostic at 15 years of age)

"It will be due to compelling visual images that depict Jews as a people as Satanic and as killers."

Which, when you see the movie, you will realize is absolutely, overwhelmingly absurd. There is simply no justification for it. The Romans are depicted as 10,000 times worse than any Jew. There is absolutely no way to assume that Christians would hold the Jews responsible, and NOT Italians responsible, unless it is with the specter of "Medieval tropes", as you put it. What is being done is laying collective guilt on all Christians for the sins of their distant ancestors, which is bigotry itself - exactly the same kind of bigotry that Christians are being falsely accused of harboring.

If you don't think people would walk out of Schindler's List wanting to kill Germans - if you don't think people would walk out of the Passion wanting to kill Italians - then there is no way one can glean from this movie that Christians will walk out of it wanting to kill Jews, unless you are possessed of some -extreme- anti-Christian bias.

Qwinn