[dennisw]

Every premise in this op-ed is false.

Your premises are wrong.

1) That this film will not be seen in places where it might be uh .....  misunderstood.... Where it might serve as potent anti Jewish propaganda.      I'm not talking about the United States but I am talking about certain Muslim countries and certain places in Europe.

2) That because you don't care about #1, people who do are to be heaped with opprobrium. Such as the Jews that raise some misgiving. Abe Foxmann for this thread

3) You forget or plain don't care that Passion plays in the past have lead to programs and riots against Jews. And at times were staged to accomplish this. Therefore Jewish concern is legitimate.

I haven't seen the film so don't know how it stacks up against the Passion plays of old. I think some are still put on?

[ultima ratio]

Where have riots ever broken out after the performance of Passion Plays? I have heard this claim--but have never seen any credible evidence that this has ever actually occurred. Perhaps in Nazi Germany--but surely not elsewhere--and surely not in modern times.

When the ADL and other Jewish organizations make this charge, they fail to see how aggressive and offensive this sounds to Christians who have an altogether different take on such matters. To Christians this sounds like interference by those outside the faith. When ADL denies outright any Jewish role in the death of Jesus, this sounds to Christians like a challenge to the veracity of the Gospels themselves. This can only injure Jewish-Christian relations.

[Sloth]

1) That this film will not be seen in places where it might be uh ..... misunderstood.... Where it might serve as potent anti Jewish propaganda. I'm not talking about the United States but I am talking about certain Muslim countries and certain places in Europe.

I'm not Catholic, but everything I've heard says this movie attempts to stick as closely as possible to the gospel accounts. If it can be used as "anti-Jewish propaganda", then presumably so can the New Testament.

So would you condemn a Christian for ignoring the "misgivings" of non-Christians about the New Testament? Why? Should a Jew be worried about my "misgivings" concerning the Talmud?