Sharni,

Well, perhaps. Perhaps. I shall withhold judgment until after I’ve seen the subject of the debate.

I’ll give Mr. Gibson the benefit of the doubt in abstract – a movie which delves into religion and politics - “people’s deeply held beliefs” will indeed “stir things up”. However to be taken by surprise, or caught off guard by having “various loud voices in the press – people who hadn’t seen it – slinging mud”? That type of nastiness has been around since there has been a press. Those protestations do seem a bit strained.

The subject material for his movie, Christ’s Passion, served as the basis for centuries of Jewish harassment and discrimination, culminating in what many consider to be one of, if not the most, dark and despicable episodes in history, during which several million Jews were slaughtered – because they were Jews. Perhaps if there were no survivors from that event, perhaps if there were no records of the pogroms, then perhaps I would share Mr. Gibson’s surprise.

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