Re: [Marxism] The Passion of Christ

["David Quarter" <davidquarter@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Date sent:              Tue, 24 Feb 2004 09:52:59 -0500
From:                   Louis Proyect <lnp3@xxxxxxxxx>
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Subject:                [Marxism] The Passion of Christ
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> Even though I haven't seen the movie, I did an interview with Prairie
> Miller of WBAI that will be aired today at 2pm EST. You can listen
> online at: http://www.wbai.org
>
> I allude to the film deleting "His blood be on us [the Jews] and on our
> children", which is from Matthew 27 and amounts to a confession of guilt
> for the crucifixion, because of pressure from Jewish organizations. It
> turns out that it was not cut, instead the Aramaic words were not subtitled.
>
> In my view this film will not provoke a tide of anti-Semitism since Jews
> do not play the role of scapegoat in American society. That role is
> reserved for blacks, gays, immigrant workers and American Indians. That
> being said, it is necessary to explain how retrograde Catholic
> traditionalism is.
>
> Here's a pretty good article on how to understand the historical background:
>
> http://www.newsday.com/entertainment/news/ny-p2two3682266feb23,0,5658047.story
>
>
  And Traditional Judaism isn't retrograde??? Anyone who's read Israel
Shahak's books: Jewish Fundamentalism in Israel and Jewish History,
Jewish Religioin: the Weight of Threee Thousand Years
 {HYPERLINK "shahak-jewish.html"}will know just how retrograde it is

http://www.sbcbaptistpress.org/bpfeature.asp?ID=1299

 The link doesn't address this question, but it scratches the surface as to
the type of blatant hypocracy of groups like the ADL to discredit the film/Mel

for a background behind the attacks:

http://www.newsmax.com/archives/articles/2004/1/27/215042.shtml

for a  Jewish (rabbi's)  perspective:


http://www.towardtradition.org/article_Passion_Feb_2004.htm

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