Posted by finnegan at ool-182c944c.dyn.optonline.net on February 23, 2004 at 17:16:12:
In Reply to: Unless it happened to you, how can you make a posted by nastypup on February 23, 2004 at 15:34:22:
: : : I don't see Christians running around spitting on Jews in the streets for what happened to Jesus.
: such a statement? Just because Mel Gibson's father said the Holocaust didn't exist doesn't make it true. Guess you wouldn't see anti-Semitism but I have experienced it more than once in my life in the 60s and 70s. I kept my identity hidden for many years (I was married to someone with the last name of Scott so it didn't raise suspicions). Only 4 years ago did I go back to using my birth name because I don't care what the misguided, hateful people say to me anymore. However, it took me years to get tough enough to resist it and other people may not be able to ward off senseless persecution. But persecution still exists in the US. Blacks are still persecuted in the US in many areas. Maybe you don't see that either.
I'm not one of these little white, suburban kids on their parents computer. I live in the Bronx, born and raised in the city, so don't make any assumptions about knowing more than someone on racial or religious issues.
Gibson's movie tells the story as it has been told in the New Testament. Now, either have the nerve to say that you are against the Bible, and the core (and unfortunately, often forgotten) values of Christianity, or let people go see a movie about the last day in a man's life 2,000 years ago. Throughout time has the Jewish community been so infallible, loving, and perfect, to have never done something as unimaginable as turning a blind eye to the excecution of a disturber of the peace? We're not talking about what you saw 40 years ago, we're talking about what no one saw 2,000 years ago.
-finn