[wideawake]

(1) Unlike the Protestant of Jewish Bibles, the Catholic Bible considers the Books of the Maccabees to be Holy Scripture and Mel Gibson has a real cultural reason to want to make this film.

(2) It is impossible to make a film about the Maccabees anti-Semitic unless one films it from the viewpoint of the degenerate pagans whom the Maccabees rebelled against.

[Aquinasfan]

Unlike the Protestant of Jewish Bibles, the Catholic Bible considers the Books of the Maccabees to be Holy Scripture and Mel Gibson has a real cultural reason to want to make this film.

Was the story in Maccabees of the pious woman and her seven sons of the same period? Yeeeeeeesh.