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An even better suggestion. Publishing companies that publish Bibles, should submit sample copies of their bible versions to the ADL. This would enable Mr. Foxman and the ADL to edit stuff out of new editions of the Bible, to ensure that the Bible is totally cleansed of racism, sexism, anti-semitism, homophobia, specism, classicism, and all other material that is offensive of Foxman and the ADL.

Heck, Mr. Foxman should be allowed to write material that he thinks is deserving of inclusion in new versions of the Bible, to make the Bible more tolerant and multi-cultural.

Then we can all celebrate "tolerance" "inclusion", and "pluralism".

1 posted on 02/20/2004 4:59:06 PM PST by ComtedeMaistre
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To: ComtedeMaistre
In Canada it is legally considered hate literature. Infact, a priest was convicted of a hate crime for quoting the bible in a letter to the editor holding an opinion opposing homosexuality.
2 posted on 02/20/2004 5:00:32 PM PST by Phantom Lord (Distributor of Pain, Your Loss Becomes My Gain)
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To: ComtedeMaistre
Don't give them any ideas.

Sursum Corda
3 posted on 02/20/2004 5:01:23 PM PST by Sursum Corda (Pray for the restoration of the Mass of the Ages.)
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To: ComtedeMaistre
In some respects it feels as though Mel's movie is receiving as much resistance as the sodomite weddings in San Fran.
4 posted on 02/20/2004 5:03:59 PM PST by AD from SpringBay (We have the government we allow and deserve.)
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To: ComtedeMaistre
... Abe Foxman & the ADL ...

These days, Abe Foxman IS the ADL.

5 posted on 02/20/2004 5:06:44 PM PST by Salman (Mickey Akbar)
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To: ComtedeMaistre
Does a history of the Nazis constitute hate literature against the Germans?
8 posted on 02/20/2004 5:16:41 PM PST by TheDon (John Kerry, self proclaimed war criminal, Democratic Presidential nominee)
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To: ComtedeMaistre
The ADL is a nonprofit that has taken in 100's of millions of dollars in the past few years. And GOBS of money since it's inception in the early 1900's.

Foxman is just, as usual for him, making as much noise as possible to increase donations. Abe is paid $500K or so a year in salary, benefits, etc. See guidstar.org for more info.

Foxman is in the Joo Bashing business. It's how he makes his money. He's just another Jesse Jackson or Sarah Brady or Larry Klayman.

Gibson is about to release the most watched movie in world history. He is goping to make a fortune. With which I hope he keeps making more of the same type of movies.

9 posted on 02/20/2004 5:17:52 PM PST by isthisnickcool (Guns!)
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Foxman should bother to find out something about the religion of so many of his fellow countrymen.

But, he's not going to. He's a professional bigot.

11 posted on 02/20/2004 5:25:34 PM PST by muawiyah
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To: ComtedeMaistre
Within my lifetime, I fully expect Christians to be intered in "re-education camps."

The New Testament will be banned as "intolerant" and "hate literature."
13 posted on 02/20/2004 5:37:15 PM PST by Skooz (in an act of defiance, she spoiled her ballot paper)
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To: ComtedeMaistre
Not only isn't it hate literature, but it's the greatest message of love in the history of humanity.

Let's pray for all who oppose this movie and the Gospels that inspired it. I think the Lord is going to use this film in a very powerful way, and will bring many souls to Himself.

14 posted on 02/20/2004 5:44:34 PM PST by Clintons a commie
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If this movie is anti-Semitic, then:

Roots is anti-white,
Shindler's List is anti-German,
The Ten Commandments is anti-Egyption,

The list could go on forever,...
15 posted on 02/20/2004 5:48:42 PM PST by aimhigh
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Abe Foxman & the ADL consider Gibson's movie as being hateful and anti-semitic.

Actually, no. In his latest interviews, Foxman has admitted that the movie is NOT antisemitic. I am certain that he was gritting his teeth as he said it, but he clearly understood that he had lost that battle utterly and completely. His current bleat is that the movie might inflame and provoke an antisemitic response among a few who would interpret it incorrectly.

As a Jew, I try not to interpret Christian scripture to Christians, a simple lesson that Idiot Foxman seems unable to grasp. I will see the movie to deepen my understanding of the seminal event of Christianity, the environment I live in.

Gibson makes no claim to have filmed a "fifth gospel." What he does claim is that his film is consonant with the four gospels that were his reference and inspiration, and that it represents his view and interpretation of events described therein.

Questions of historical accuracy that do not arise directly and EXCLUSIVELY from those gospels are simply not valid, and do not deserve consideration as criticism of the film. To unbelievers, this is little different from warp drive, time travel, alien invasion, ghosts, dragons, or other fantasies. You either suspend disbelief and appreciate what is presented for its entertainment or illustrative value, or call it balderdash and walk out.

But stories can tell us a great deal, because the imagination is perhaps the greatest of laboratories for human ideas, thought, and interaction ever conceived. It has been exploited since ancient times by great authors. So whether you consider the gospels to be fiction, fact, or somewhere in between (another ancient writing technique,) they remain "the greatest story ever told", and certainly worthy of exposition.

Foxman be damned. He does not speak for me, or for any but his small clique.

19 posted on 02/20/2004 7:12:32 PM PST by MainFrame65
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