To: joobers
I checked out some of this guy's articles on Beliefnet, and he's not a kook. He seems to be an intelligent, well reasoned columnist.
What I think we are witnessing is a group of people who are allowing their cultural paranoia, which is quite understandable considering their history, to cloud their judgment in the matter of this film.
The idea of a visual recounting of the Gospel inciting modern Christians to animosity toward or violence against Jews is nutty, totally out of touch with reality.
The modern anti-semites are moslems and their leftist soul-mates, and they're not going to view this film.
To: Jeff Chandler
I checked out some of this guy's articles on Beliefnet, and he's not a kook. He seems to be an intelligent, well reasoned columnist.
What I think we are witnessing is a group of people who are allowing their cultural paranoia, which is quite understandable considering their history, to cloud their judgment in the matter of this film.
And *who* or *what* would be responsible for this clouding of judgement? Hmmmmm.
He began to teach them
that the Son of Man must suffer greatly
and be rejected by the elders, the chief priests, and the scribes,
and be killed, and rise after three days.
He spoke this openly.
Then Peter took him aside and began to rebuke him.
At this he turned around and, looking at his disciples,
rebuked Peter and said, "Get behind me, Satan.
You are thinking not as God does, but as human beings do."
While Mel may be prepared to do Jews the favor of deleting a single offensive scene, the whole anti-Semitic message is odious.
The message that matters, a part of which Gibson is trying to relay, is "I am the messiah" and it is THE GOOD NEWS found in the New Testament. Why those who don't believe can't just live with it and get over this fact is absolutely beyond my comprehension. Get lost rabbi... your hateful and slanderous words are *nothing* compared to Christ's!
To: Jeff Chandler
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