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Good grief!! I'm gonna have to bring a whole box of Kleenex with me to the theater for this one! I was crying just watching the trailer!!

You know, I'm sure that one of the problems the ADL will have with this is the cheering of the crowd during Jesus's humiliation and death. I don't see it as complicity of the Jews, but as just the way crowds can be manipulated to act in such a way that individual humans would not normally consider civilized behavior.

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Well, the JADL can have some of Ebert's raspberry.

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just the way crowds can be manipulated to act in such a way

In reality, it was the chief priests that whipped up (manipulated) the crowd.

Matthew 15:

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³ Now on the occasion of the feast he used to release to them one prisoner whom they requested.

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A man called Barabbas ⁴ was then in prison along with the rebels who had committed murder in a rebellion.

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The crowd came forward and began to ask him to do for them as he was accustomed.

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Pilate answered, "Do you want me to release to you the king of the Jews?"

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For he knew that it was out of envy that the chief priests had handed him over.

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But the chief priests stirred up the crowd to have him release Barabbas for them instead.

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Pilate again said to them in reply, "Then what (do you want) me to do with (the man you call) the king of the Jews?"

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⁵ They shouted again, "Crucify him."

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Pilate said to them, "Why? What evil has he done?" They only shouted the louder, "Crucify him."

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⁶ So Pilate, wishing to satisfy the crowd, released Barabbas to them and, after he had Jesus scourged, handed him over to be crucified.

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My view it it's a lesson, being a "sheeple" is not a good thing. In this day and age that's even more important than ever. Many people these days allow themselves to be swept along with "popular" opinion.