Posted on 11/09/2003 7:36:25 PM PST by holy joe
To Foxman and his ilk, the very existence of Gentiles is a "hate crime against Jews"
I cannot wait to see this movie. I'll buy the video asap.
BTW, the Jewish didn't kill Christ. The Romans did. DUH !!!!!
I think Foxman falls into that category known as "self-hating Jews." They're ultra-liberal, either non-practicing or barely so, but see "anti-semitism" everywhere, in any person who does not adhere to the totally secular liberal creed. And they hate practicing, orthodox Jews almost as much as they hate everybody else.
First off, the crusades are maybe not your best example, seeing as they were targeted more at the Muslims who actually controlled the lands in question and deaths of Jews were incidental. But, to answer your question anyway, most of the people we are talking were completely illiterate and could not read one word of the Bible on their own. That makes following all the handy-dandy instructions inside a little difficult, especially with corrupt rulers who fit reason to their personal ends and not vice versa.
Interesting, I did not know that.
There are cases of people whose lives were saved being very resentful toward their rescuers; perhaps that is his psychological dynamic.
What is going on here? Jews are being attacked in Germany. Synagogues are being torched in France. Around the world, Jews -- such as Daniel Pearl -- are hunted and killed as Jews. The prime minister of Malaysia tells an Islamic summit that "1.3 billion Muslims cannot be defeated by a few million Jews. . . . We are up against a people who think . . . they have now gained control of the most powerful countries. . . . We cannot fight them through brawn alone" -- and gets a standing ovation from the heads of state of 57 countries. And amid all this, the Anti-Defamation League feels the need to wax indignant over a few lines on a Web log?
I think that what Foxman is doing to Gibson concerning Passion of Christ is not helpful to anyone of good will. His throwing around of the term "anti-semitic" like some cheap frisbee cheapens that word and the very real meaning it should have. Sort of the like the boy who cried wolf once too often.
It's as if he wants to incite the sensitivities of people who have been supportive of his organization to bad will concerning Gibson's making of this film. Controversy increases revenue for an organization such as the ADL and it's hard not to contemplate this as being a reason he has relentlessly attacked the Gibson project this past half year.
The ancestors of the ADL also tried to extinguish Easter with lies. You'd think that after 2,000 of failed attempts they'd try another tactic.
"When they were departed, some of the guards came into the city, and told the chief priests all things that had been done. And they being assembled together with the ancients, taking counsel, gave a great sum of money to the soldiers, Saying: 'Say you, His disciples came by night, and stole him away when we were asleep'. And if the governor shall hear this, we will persuade him, and secure you. So they, taking the money, did as they were taught: and this word was spread abroad among the Jews even unto this day". (Mathew 28: 11-15)
No,no.
You're supposed to say, "If they murdered Jews, they weren't true Christians."
That's the way the dodge works.
Why stop there? Why not say the Church is the Whore of Babylon and the Pope is the Anti-Christ?
Oh, and the Jesuits run the government
That's the standard rhetoric of slope-headed, backwoods preachers, isn't it?
I hope they take the film literally, it is, after all, the Truth, taken straight from the Christian Scriptures. Yours is the most paranoid, anti-Christian hate post I've come accross yet. Frankly, I think there is a guilt complex behind all this hatred for this story from the Christian Bible. After all, it's not as though Mel Gibson is producing fiction here. Nor is he dredging up ancient history, this story is known and taught to every single Christian on earth.
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