Religions > Bible > Re: All this controversy is begining to make Christians feel its more about anti-Christianism than anti-Semitism
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24 Feb 2004 12:33:29 PM |
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Re: All this controversy is begining to make Christians feel its more about anti-Christianism than anti-Semitism |
All this controversy is begining to make Christians feel its more about
anti-Christianism than anti-Semitism .....
The Passion and Prejudice
Why I asked the Anti-Defamation League to give Mel Gibson a break.
by Michael Medved | posted 02/24/04
Denunciations of Mel Gibson's The Passion of The Christ by some influential
organizations in the Jewish community reached their crescendo long before the
movie's release, and began even before he had finished filming it. This proves
that the charges of anti-Semitism surrounding this project for more than a year
arose not from an honest assessment of the film, but from political prejudice
and organizational imperatives.
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The resulting article led to horrified speculation that Mel Gibson, as well as
his father, was a "Holocaust denier"—a charge that both Gibsons repudiated—and
gave rise to the supposition that his film about Jesus expressed a Jew-hating
agenda. After all, the few facts known about the project before its completion
made it sound eccentric and excessive.
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The film seemed to me so obviously free of anti-Semitic intent that I urged
Gibson to show the rough cut to some of his Jewish critics as a means of
reassuring them.
http://www.christianitytoday.com/movies/commentaries/passion-prejudice.html
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