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Well, Krauthammer is quoted above and ok I'll fess up. It's just most of the Jews I know and I'm extrapolating from that and what I have read. I suppose you will only accept a scientific poll. This will take me a few days. OK?

Well, extrapolating from what *I* have seen, Christians leave this movie feeling that it was not the Jews who were responsible for the Crucixion, and that Christ voluntarily laid down His life for all of us.

There are still believing Christians in Europe, and if this movie has a similar effect on them, it could actually serve as a counterbalance to the threat from the European intelligentsia & Muslims.

You could be correct about the 50% number however; you are talking about 2 very different religious dogmas here. Here is what I was raised with and came to believe. The fact is that Jesus was crucified. Jesus was crucified in Judea. Jesus was judged by a Roman at the urging of the only other population at the time which were Jews in the political hierarchy. Not all Jews called for his crucifixion. Jesus was sent to earth by his Father to die on the cross. The Jewish tradition does not recognize Jesus as the Son of God so they do not accept the fact that God sent him here for the very purpose of death and resurrection. Christians understand that distinction because they believe Christ was ordained to die and be resurrected. Jews have no such faith so they fear blame for killing a man and project that fear onto Christians. If God sent Jesus to die then all of those involved in his death had no choice in the matter because it was already ordained. The only person that could have stopped the crucifixion was Jesus himself.