One of the problems that I see with the Jewish opposition to this movie is who they are attacking. Not Mel Gibson but rather those who believe in the Gospels. Who else has been more of a friend to Israel than the conservative Christians in the US? It is the atheist intellectual elites here and in Europe that stoke the fires of anti-semitism.
One of the problems that I see with the Jewish opposition to this movie is who they are attacking. Not Mel Gibson but rather those who believe in the Gospels. Who else has been more of a friend to Israel than the conservative Christians in the US? It is the atheist intellectual elites here and in Europe that stoke the fires of anti-semitism. There are two classes of people who are attacking this movie. One group is the left, who attack it because it appeals to their opposition, i.e., conservatives, largely Christian. The other group are those who have experienced antisemetism firsthand, and are not able to distinguish between different "flavors" of "Christianity". To these people, "Christian" means "those who have harmed me."
It's up to real Christians to ignore the trap set by the first group, and to demonstrate to the second that there are real Christians, and "Christians in Name Only" -- and, the difference between the two.