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To: VinnyTex
fraid not. sick and tired of whining Jews lookin for anti-semitism under every rock. You didnt answer my question. Can you name one movie in the past 20yrs that has put a favorable spin on Christianity.

I thought O'Brother was ok. They lampooned the Klan and all the other negative Southern stuff (and being from Miss. I was highly sensitive) but I thought the Baptismal scene in the river was beautiful...the whole movie was a bit wry but for a Cohen Bros. movie ...they're Jews I assume...I thought it was not too shabby. I was suprised.

One of the worst flicks about Chrisitanity recently was Dogma....unfortunately courtesy of some Catholic ne'er do wells I think.

I understand your position but I think if you refined your argument a bit you'd maybe find less resistance. I think Hollywood and most of the media are hostile to the great Myth that is called Christian Conservatism in general.

118 posted on 03/01/2002 12:50:53 PM PST by wardaddy
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To: wardaddy
. I think Hollywood and most of the media are hostile to the great Myth that is called Christian Conservatism in general.

See Michael Medved's Hollywood Hates America. The problem is not with religious Jews like Medved, as he points out, it is Jews with no religion, or with very little religion who bash Christians, and bash religious Jews with similar enthusiasm.

The fact of the percentage of Jews in the media being substantially larger than their percentage of the general population is naturally not due to some conspiracy, but rather to the attachment of 'The People of the Book' to intellectual matters in general, especially after they were excluded from many other professions, even in this country, for generations. Partially for these reasons they gravitated to an industry that dealt with ideas and did not exclude them.

Now that the communications medias power has grown so great, its domination by a demographic group with extremely skewed political and cultural viewpoints does become a matter of concern. In the black community local shopkeepers, who tend to be Asian in ancestry, have a localized form of relative power, and are naturally resented. As were the Irish, when they were disproportionately represented in the police forces of the great urban areas.

This seems to be the sort of reactions that Nixon and Graham gave, it seems to me. Those who call this sort of thing anti-semitism either have no experience with the real thing, or are being disingenuous. To compare their quotes to perpetrating the holocaust is to trivialize the suffering of the victims of the actual holocaust.

128 posted on 03/01/2002 1:58:57 PM PST by Lucius Cornelius Sulla
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