[PaulJ]

the film will be perceived as anti-Semitic, because the Christian Bible holds that Jesus was a Jewish prophet rejected and betrayed by his own people.

I guess The Bible needs a politically correct make-over.

[mr.pink]

I guess The Bible needs a politically correct make-over.

LOL...with Abe Foxman given final edit oversight authority.

[mlmr]

I borrowned from the thread to send this email to the writer and the paper.

Your column is so obviously intolerant and prejudiced, that it is embarrasing to read. I haven't read such insulting and ax-grinding in a long time. Just becasue you have difficulties with Christianty is no reason to be insulting. The Jesus Seminar, is considered the joke of the intellectual Christian world. Its participants were out of their league and all interested in the same thing, discrediting Christ. You are spouting, word for word, the Jesus Seminar's own press. You are an unthinking mouthpiece who has literally no conception of what you are discussing. What is most dismaying is the fact that you danced around the fact that you haven't even seen the movie.
This story must have passed through the hands of at least one editor, who must also have had literally no conception of what he was reading. There seems to be a cultural void at the Globe and you sir epitomize it.

[Ditto]

"...the film will be perceived as anti-Semitic, because the Christian Bible holds that Jesus was a Jewish prophet rejected and betrayed by his own people."

Funny. I never read it that way. Every one of his followers and the multitudes who gathered to hear His words was a Jew. He was "rejected and betrayed" by an small elite group of powerful men who saw him as a danger to their wealth and status --- kind of like the folks you find in the editorial department of the Boston Globe who assign motives and disparge works they haven't seen because it may threaten their status among the elite.