Re: point to consider Mel Gibson's _Passion_
| From: | Steg Belsky <draqonfayir@...> |
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| Date: | Tuesday, February 17, 2004, 9:28 |
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On Monday, February 16, 2004, at 11:46 PM, J Y S Czhang wrote:
> point to consider seriously concerning Mel Gibson's movie _The
> Passion_
> (despite its possible inhistorical accuracies and New Testament bias):
> If it is so anti-Semitic, why is it in Aramic, a Semitic language
> that
> Jesus Christ, Jesus ben Joseh or whatever, of Nazareth, definitely a
> Jew, spoke?
I'll just say one little thing about this, because I don't want to
really discuss this here (or maybe anywhere). When a Christian is
antisemitic, it generally has nothing to do with *Jesus*'s identity as
a Jew. It has to do with whether or not the people who killed him
were, and whether or not that has certain cosmological implications.
-Stephen (Steg)