[Catholicguy]

Is it antisemitic for John, a Jew by birth, to lay the death of Christ at the feet of the Jews? If so, then the Jewish historian Josephus is also an antisemite. In Antiquities 18:3, he records: “Now there was about this time Jesus, a wise man, for he was a doer of wonderful works, a teacher. He drew over to him both many of the Jews and many of the Gentiles. And when Pilate, at the suggestion of the principal men amongst us, had condemned him to the cross, those that loved him at the first did not forsake him; and the tribe of Christians, so named from him, are not extinct at this day” (emphasis mine). Nor is Christ Himself antisemitic, despite His harsh criticisms of the Jews, for He wept over Jerusalem and sent out His messengers first unto the “lost sheep of the tribe of Israel.”

This movie is under constant attack in the media and my local fishwrap, "The Palm Beach Post" has an Episcolaian minister, Steve Gushee, who has devoted two columns (maybe more, I can't remember) to labelling the movie antisemitic (no, he hasn't seen it)and "not Christian."

The truth always divides and we Christians can see just how far the powers-that-be in the Media are divided from us by their visceral hatred of Jesus, the Gospels, and The Passion.

[Catholicguy]

Episcopalian

[dangus]

This is a defense? It pretty much repeats all the lies of those who hate The Passion. For instance, what's theis nonsense about Sister Emmerich? Didn't he explicitly deny that she was a source?

And how about this sentence?
"The New York Times launched an attack on Gibson’s father, Hutton, an octogenarian conservative given to historical revisionism and holocaust denial (more proof that the apple cannot have fallen far from the tree)."

[Maximilian]

Neoconservative Catholic scholar Michael Novak... Novak, who says he attempted to watch The Passion through the eyes of a Jew, goes on to claim that the Gospel accounts “often overlap and sometimes contradict one another” and then launches into an all-but-dispensationalist description of Jews and Judaism... Novak usually capitalizes pronouns referring to God but never those referring to Jesus... These qualifications of the Passion narrative, from both the ADL and Novak, run contrary not only to 2,000 years of Christian teaching but to the Old Testament... By caving in to the pressure of the ADL, the media, and progressive theologians such as Novak...

Bump for expose of fraudulent "Catholic theologian" Michael Novak.

[Thorin]

Thanks for posting this interesting article from an outstanding magazine.

[Gamecock]

I can't wait to see it!

Has anyone seen Gospel of John yet???

[GirlShortstop]

Most of the national media has marched in lock-step, raising red flags about Gibson's "lack of sensitivity" and echoing the "grave concerns" of Abe Foxman.

Abraham Foxman

[IGNATIUS]

Whether the subject is Christianity,patriotism,gun control,homosexuality,or the price of freedom--- Mel Gobson's films have a pattern of consistently portraying politically incorrect truth.

He should not cut out those portions of "The Passion" that offend those hostile to Christ.No one is forcing anyone else to attend the film.