[Qwinn]

What I don't like about the comment is that requiring Christians to condemn it is like asking them to apologize for it. I mean, yes, Christians will certainly condemn it, they don't have a problem with doing that, but when you elevate it to the point that they are -required- to condemn it, as if they don't condemn it that means they support it, that reaches the level where it's effectively a demand for an apology - an apology that they have no more obligation to make than Jews today are required to make an apology for killing Christ. That's my only problem with it.

Somebody was trying to make that point to samtheman earlier, by demanding that he condemn child molestation or stand assumed of being in support of it, but he missed the point being made.

Qwinn

[BlazingArizona]

What I don't like about the comment is that requiring Christians to condemn it is like asking them to apologize for it.

I don't see it that way at all, and his comparison with the Islamic situation is entirely appropriate. Christians have the same moral obligation to refute charges of anti-Semitism in this matter as Muslims have a responsibility to inform a fearful world about the true nature of the mainstream faith. For that matter, I think Mel Gibson has an obligation to clear the air about the difference between his ethnic beliefs and those of his wack-job father.