Posted by nastypup at pcp04985504pcs.benslm01.pa.comcast.net on February 23, 2004 at 17:47:07:
In Reply to: Nothing a leg to stand on. posted by finnegan on February 23, 2004 at 17:16:12:
: 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
expressed concern that it would give a handful of morons an excuse to commit hate crimes. You missed my whole point. I don't have a problem with Christianity, the Bible, Christ or anything else. I was just trying to make a point that there is hatred in the Gibson family and how much hatred has leaked into his art? People, by nature, are subjective and they see through their own eyes. But many people who watch movies (Gibson's or any other movie), can't sort fact from fiction or faith from reality and it would only take a few stupid, hateful ones to cause a major problem.