> Does the movie make that claim? (That ALL Jews are guilty, etc.) Or is > that judgement in the mind of the viewer? >
Again, you're completely missing the point. Whether or not the movie blames
all the Jews for the death of Jesus, over two millennia millions of Christians
HAVE blamed all Jews and exacted horrible retribution on uncountable tens of
thousands of innocent Jews. For Gibson to make a movie based on the same
Gospels that have inflamed these vile and vicious murders and not to explicitly
renounce the idea of blaming all the Jews is extremely irresponsible. Because I
guarantee you, there will be anti-Semites who will see this movie and trumpet
its content as justification for their Jew-hatred.
So IYO no one can ever make a movie about the life of Jesus -- where for Christians the main point of the life of Jesus is His death and resurrection and its meaning for us today -- because some people use the fact that some Jews who lived at the time were involved in his death to justify hatred of and violence against all Jews today? If that is not what you are saying, what do you think would be an acceptable way of portraying the account given in the Gospels while staying true to that account?
-- Ronn! :)
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