Is The Passion Anti-Semitic?

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Now that the Passion of Christ is being released on DVD will we get swamped with anti-senitic claims as we did when the movie was in the theaters?

As you recall this was quite a popular debate on most TV news channels and news magazines.

My favorite movie is Jesus of Nazareth by Franco Ziferelli. Even this movie was accused of being as anti-semitic as the Passion.
 
i never for a moment blamed the jews.
the romans were cinematically vilified, and because i knew the story i felt more vilified than the romans.
 
One must be mature enough not to see it as anti-Semitic. I also don’t think it was anti-Semitic in general.
 
Crucifying the Messiah is anti-Semitic.
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Our Messiah is Jewish…is this what you mean? sorry, just a little discombobblelated by that comment

When i saw “The Passion” (i think it was 5 times) i never blamed anyone other than myself because it was MY sins that crucified Jesus. i killed Him, it was and still is my fault, i’m guilty, and so is anyone thats a sinner.

The film doesnt portray anything that isnt historical as far as the violence goes, did you expect Roman soldiers to act any differently? as for the scribes and pharisees, read the bible to see how they acted!!

Rachel <><
 
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Our Messiah is Jewish…is this what you mean?
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Yes.
 
Did the Jews want Jesus dead? Absolutly, and they would not allow only a beating to suffice.

Did the Romans want Jesus dead - Pilate could have said no. But they ended up doing their “duty”

The “anti” in the Passion is anti-Christ.

MrS
 
People who claim that this film is anti-Semitic must also logically conclude that Christianity itself is anti-Semitic, and that is a ridiculous conclusion. It is an historical fact that SOME Jews wanted Jesus dead because he was a threat to their power, and they convinced the Romans to do the dirty work. It is also an historical fact that He, His mother, his apostles, and many other of His followers were Jewish. An equally ridiculous conclusion is to say that because SOME Christians distorted their own faith to justify persecution of Jews that ALL Christians are anti-Semitic, and it is even worse to claim that therefore the Christian faith itself is anti-Semitic.

Consider something that was brought up by my friend from Italy: because she & I are ethnically Italian and thus descendants of the Romans (some of my family still lives in Rome itself), does that mean that we should take offense that “The Passion” showed SOME of our ancestors to be extremely cruel and sadistic, not to mention abjectly cowardly in the case of Pilate? Certainly not!
 
The obvious rejoinder to this criticism is that there have been no anti-semetic incidents stemming from this movie. Where are the pogroms and lynchings that were supposed to have occured? The only bigotry that came from this movie was the exposure of anti-Catholic bigotry.
 
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The only bigotry that came from this movie was the exposure of anti-Catholic bigotry.
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Which is why you won’t see any protesters this time. Their hypocrisy was exposed.

Did anyone else see the new EWTN interview with Mel Gibson? He was asked if all the detractors owed him an apology, and he said no, that he didn’t really care, but then added, “They do owe an apology to the Christian people.” Hear, hear!
 
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Did anyone else see the new EWTN interview with Mel Gibson? He was asked if all the detractors owed him an apology, and he said no, that he didn’t really care, but then added, “They do owe an apology to the Christian people.” Hear, hear!
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Yep, that was the highest point of the interview.
 
There were claims that “The Passion” would unleash a flurry of anti-Semitic attacks, but no incidents were reported, and the fear-mongers have had their anti-Catholic bias exposed.

I’m not sure how widely this was reported, but Michael Medved and Dennis Prager were each shown rough cuts of the film and asked for their (name removed by moderator)ut. They are both syndicated radio hosts and authors, and both are proud to be religious Jews. (Not just of a Jewish heritage.) Neither one found the film to be anti-Semitic, and both criticised Jewish colleagues who tried to argue that it was.
 
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Did the Jews want Jesus dead? Absolutly, and they would not allow only a beating to suffice.

Did the Romans want Jesus dead - Pilate could have said no. But they ended up doing their “duty”

The “anti” in the Passion is anti-Christ.

MrS
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Very well put! If the movie was anti-semitic, John’s Gospel could be said to be anti-semitic, I suppose. It seems to have been pretty faithful to the Gospel accounts.
 
If the Passion of the Christ is anti-semetic
then I guess that means Michael Collins is anti-British
and Shindler’s list is anti-German.

Fergal
 
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If the Passion of the Christ is anti-semetic
then I guess that means Michael Collins is anti-British
and Shindler’s list is anti-German.
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How dare you use logic in an insidious debate to demoralize the world’s #1 enemy, the Catholic Church? 😉
 
I saw it twice and no way is it anti-Semetic…

if anything I felt that the Roman soldiers displayed more hatred and evil than I ever even imagined… I have a Jewish friend who saw it and shared the same feelings.
 
No one said the Romans were nice guys. I forget who the historian was but he said that the positive aspects of the Romans e.g. communication, law, transportation, trade were adopted by the Britons and the worst by Nazi Germany.
 
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