[DPB101]

Amy Westfeldt...now that name strikes a bell...hmmm...what family is it that writes out her paycheck?

[ChocChipCookie]

I give up. Who?

[ex-Texan]

The writer sounds like an anti-Christian bigot. The truth is the truth. The only threats to Jewish people are being made by Islamic fundamentalists. Not a single word from her about that. I wonder why. How many innocent Jews are killed each day in America by Christians? DUH! How many are killed each days in Israel by Pali terrorists? DOUBLE DUH !

[ex-Texan]

The writer sounds like an anti-Christian bigot. The truth is the truth. The only threats to Jewish people are being made by Islamic fundamentalists. Not a single word from her about that. I wonder why. How many innocent Jews are killed each day in America by Christians? DUH! How many are killed each days in Israel by Pali terrorists? DOUBLE DUH !

[polemikos]

...critics of "The Passion" - who have not seen the film...

A non-story, about non-news, written by a non-writer, with nothing better to do.

[Cachelot]

Amy Westfeldt...now that name strikes a bell...hmmm...what family is it that writes out her paycheck?

Ah, Mr. Lied - out Jewspotting again?

[dennisw]

How dare Jews express concern about this greatest film of all times!! Darn Jews are disrespecting the much greater number of Christians! Darn pesky Jews! Darn uppity Jews!! Darn Jews are disrespecting Jesus Christ's passion and disrespecting us Christians! </sarcasm>

Your daily anti Jew post. Once more your obsession with what Jews do and think comes to the surface. You are 100 times more concerned about Jews than Jews are concerned with your religion (?) and national origin (?)      Funny the way that always seems to work.

[xm177e2]

Film about Christ raises concerns of anti-Semitism

Tomorrow's headline:

Inanimate Object Carries Out Transitive Verb Action

The film is not "raising concerns," a bunch of professional victim groups and extreme-left Pope-hating Catholics are.

[Aquinasfan]

These articles can't help but be good for the box office.

[HurkinMcGurkin]

"For too many years, Christians have accused Jews of being Christ-killers and used that charge to rationalize violence," said Sister Mary C. Boys, a seminary professor on a committee that read an early draft of the script. "This is our fear."

I must have missed all of this Christian on Jew violence. I have seen Palestinian on Jew violence. I have seen Jew on Palestinian violence. Even seen an occasional looney skinhead do something to a jew. Now, where's all this "rationalization of violence"?

[TigersEye]

"For too many years, Christians have accused Jews of being Christ-killers and used that charge to rationalize violence," ...

I have never heard of Christians accusing Jews of killing Christ. Until now. There has been quite an onslaught of articles suggesting that Mel Gibson's movie will support that accusation but not one of them gives an example of anyone making it or rationalizing violence with it. Is that some sort of Skinhead logic, that Jews killed Christ? That's what they're worried about? That Mel is making an agit-prop film for the Aryan Nations? I guess that makes The Ten Commandments an agit-prop film for Zionists!?!

[Eternal_Bear]

Rewrite the script with Nazi Germans as the villains. That will make everyone happy.

[verity]

This subject is wearing thin.

[Freakazoid]

Those who fear "The Passion" could fuel anti-Semitism, however, until this weekend hadn't been allowed to see the film. Seven months before its release, this extraordinary vanity project is stirring passions over Gibson's exclusionary screenings and the potential for a negative depiction of Jews.

All in the second paragraph. Way over the top. Not worth reading further.

[Pagey]

Mel Gibson sure is getting alot of free publicity for his film,and isn't that great? With all of the horrible and rotten movies made by Hollywood regarding Jesus,this one will surely show everybody "HOW" he died for our sins.It's about time we inhabitants of planet earth a be reminded of how brutal it really was. I'll bet Hillary,Socialist that she is, will never see this film.

[Defiant]

I don't understand the problem. It's historical fact that Jews lobbied the Romans for the execution of Christ, and got their wish. Whether there was a mob of Jews as depicted in the movie cannot be known by us at this late date, but Jews who wrote the early versions of the New Testament gave descriptions of such mobs. At the time those were written, Christians were a Jewish sect.

The point that I don't see made in any of this plethora of articles about this movie's supposed anti-semitism is that Jesus was Jewish. How can a people who worship a Jew be anti-Semitic? They might be anti-Sanhedrin or something like that, but anti-Semitic?

Now, I understand that in the middle ages, the Europeans blamed the Jews for Jesus' death, and persecuted them for it, buy my point is that such conduct is irrational and historically erroneous. It was a tribal instinct of an illiterate peasantry. What does that have to do with the truthful depiction of the facts surrounding the death of Jesus Christ?

Are we Anti-Christian to make movies like "JFK", or historical pieces about Lincoln, RFK, MLK ? Didn't you know, the Christians killed them all. They founded slavery in the US, killed off the Indians, colonized the world, and whenever anyone makes a movie about that, it's clearly anti-Christian, regardless of how historically accurate it is.

Or maybe it's not anti-Christian to depict Christians doing something bad to another Christian, because it is not attempting to make the point that Christians or Christianity itself is bad.

Same with Gibson's movie.

[pyx]

Those who fear "The Passion" could fuel anti-Semitism, however, until this weekend hadn't been allowed to see the film.

Then take your meds and see a doctor about your mental illness.

[kstewskis]

Those who fear "The Passion" could fuel anti-Semitism,

Ah ha!

Stop right there, Amy...don't go any farther. You flat out admited it before everyone now.

Exactly what I've said before, it's these blathering idiots who "fear" antisemitism are precisely who are fueling the pot....not Mel and "The Passion".

Tell a lie often enough, and people will believe? You sound like a evil, deceitful liberal, Ms. Westfeldt.

Nice try, now go back and crawl under your rock.