"The Passion" to be investigated for hate crimes

Michael · Post by **Michael** » Thu Mar 11, 2004 10:21 am

Department of Justice Petitioned to Evaluate Gibson's "The Passion of the Christ" for Violations of Hate Crime Statutes

http://www.prweb.com/releases/2004/3/prwebxml110381.php

Shell · Post by **Shell** » Thu Mar 11, 2004 11:24 am

Oh, please. Why are they having such a problem? The media always takes this kind of stuff and runs with it. It's ridiculous. There's plenty of hate out there without them singling out a movie about Jesus.

Michael · Post by **Michael** » Thu Mar 11, 2004 12:34 pm

In John 7:7 Jesus wrote:The world cannot hate you, but it hates me because I testify that what it does is evil.

Pethead1 · Post by **Pethead1** » Thu Mar 11, 2004 4:54 pm

This is this weeks arcitle by Ann Coulter. I think it is a good answer to this stupid idea.

William Safire, the New York Times' in-house "conservative" – who endorsed Bill Clinton in 1992, like so many conservatives – was sure Mel Gibson's movie "The Passion of the Christ" would incite anti-Semitic violence. Thus far, the pogroms have failed to materialize.

With all the subtlety of a Mack truck, Safire called Gibson's movie a version of "the medieval 'passion play,' preserved in pre-Hitler Germany at Oberammergau, a source of the hatred of all Jews as 'Christ killers.'" (Certainly every Aryan Nation skinhead murderer I've ever met was also a devoted theater buff and "passion play" aficionado.)

The "passion play" has been put on in Germany since at least 1633. I guess 1633 would be "pre-Hitler." In addition, Moses walked the Earth "pre-Hitler." The wheel was invented "pre-Hitler." People ate soup "pre-Hitler." Referring to the passion play as "pre-Hitler" is a slightly fancier version of every adolescent's favorite argument: You're like Hitler!

Despite repeated suggestions from liberals – including the in-house "conservative" and Clinton-supporter at the Times – Hitler is not what happens when you gin up Christians. Like Timothy McVeigh, the Columbine killers and the editorial board of the New York Times, Hitler detested Christians.

Indeed, Hitler denounced Christianity as an "invention of the Jew" and vowed that the "organized lie (of Christianity) must be smashed" so that the state would "remain the absolute master." Interestingly, this was the approach of all the great mass murderers of the last century – all of whom were atheists: Hitler, Stalin, Mao and Pol Pot.

In the United States, more than 30 million babies have been killed by abortion since Roe v. Wade, vs. seven abortion providers killed. Yeah – keep your eye on those Christians!

But according to liberals, it's Christianity that causes murder. (And don't get them started on Zionism.) Like their Muslim friends still harping about the Crusades, liberals won't "move on" from the Spanish Inquisition. In the entire 350 years of the Spanish Inquisition, about 30,000 people were killed. That's an average of less than 100 a year. Stalin knocked off that many kulaks before breakfast.

But Safire argues that viewers of "The Passion" will see the Jewish mob and think: "Who was responsible for this cruel humiliation? What villain deserves to be punished?"

Let's see: It was a Roman who ordered Christ's execution, and Romans who did all the flaying, taunting and crucifying. Perhaps Safire is indulging in his own negative stereotyping about Jews by assuming they simply viewed Romans as "the help."

But again I ask: Does anyone at the Times have the vaguest notion what Christianity is? (Besides people who go around putting up nativity scenes that have to be taken down by court order?) The religion that toppled the Roman Empire – anyone?

Jesus' suffering and death is not a Hatfields-and-McCoys story demanding retaliation. The gist of the religion that transformed the world is: God's only son came to Earth to take the punishment we deserved.

If the Jews had somehow managed to block Jesus' crucifixion and He had died in old age of natural causes, there would be no salvation through Christ and no Christianity. Whatever possible responses there may be to that story, this is not one of them: Damn those Jews for being a part of God's plan to save my eternal soul!

Gibson didn't insert Jews into the story for some Machiavellian, racist reason. Christ was a Jew crucified by Romans at the request of other Jews in Jerusalem. I suppose if Gibson had moved the story to suburban Cleveland and portrayed Republican logging executives crucifying Christ, the left would calm down. But it simply didn't happen that way.

Of course, the original text is no excuse in Hollywood. The villains of Tom Clancy's book "The Sum of All Fears" were recently transformed from Muslim terrorists to neo-Nazis for the movie version. You wouldn't want to upset the little darlings. They might do something rash like slaughter 3,000 innocent American civilians in a single day. The only religion that can be constantly defamed and insulted is the one liberals pretend to be terrified of.

Petrafan4life79 · Post by **Petrafan4life79** » Fri Mar 12, 2004 8:05 pm

All I can say is.....

BigD · Post by **BigD** » Sat Mar 13, 2004 4:43 pm

*marks another thing on his list onto why he will never move into the United States*

All the same, this is just a petition-no action has been taken on it yet. I doubt any will be taken.

Michael · Post by **Michael** » Tue Mar 16, 2004 4:54 pm

So how's THIS for a follow-up:

Survey: 'The Passion' May Be Reducing Anti-Semitism

onnyII · Post by **onnyII** » Wed Mar 17, 2004 10:44 am

i haven't seen that movie -not in tethaers here yet- so i don't have a opinion about it.... but maybe next week I'll be able to..

WR1U · Post by **WR1U** » Thu Mar 18, 2004 1:23 am

Well the major problem people have with the movie is who is responsible for killing Christ. Simple answer, I am. If I hadn't sinned Jesus wouldn't have died. He loves me so much that if I were the only one in the history of this world to sin he would have done it. I'm responsible, you are, the whole human race is.

bakersfieldpethead · Post by **bakersfieldpethead** » Thu Mar 18, 2004 3:56 am

Hollywood and the rest of the critics don't want to think about Heaven or Hell, no body wants to be reminded about there own lives......then all of the sudden Mel Gibson comes along and puts in right in their laps.

I've waited for a long time for someone "Hollywood" to take this and make it what it is. Because our Christian Brothers who have made movies for TBN and CBN and all that just can't compare to what Hollywood could really do. So for Mel Gibson to do this is the best thing I could ever think of to come out of Hollywood sense the Ten Commandments......that's a long time.

onnyII · Post by **onnyII** » Thu Mar 18, 2004 2:54 pm

WR1U wrote:Well the major problem people have with the movie is who is responsible for killing Christ. Simple answer, I am. If I hadn't sinned Jesus wouldn't have died. He loves me so much that if I were the only one in the history of this world to sin he would have done it. I'm responsible, you are, the whole human race is.

I agree!!!

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