Funny, isn't it? No, not "ha-ha" funny, but funny that the Hollywood leftists-and-the-liberal-Jewish-organizations-who-love-them went berserk over Mel Gibson's Passion of the Christ, calling it virulently anti-Semitic and a blood libel which "would incite anti-Jewish riots from angry Christians everywhere", but now just fawn over Steven Spielberg's Munich blood libel that portrays Palestinian terrorists to be lovable family men who just couldn't take any more abuse from evil Israel and the arrogant Jews.
Now, first off, I saw Gibson's Passion in the movie theater, and, while I felt it was too long, slow, and gratuitously gory, I did not walk out of the movie feeling Jews were about to be burned in the streets. Of course, I was not impressed by how the Jewish mobs were portrayed as one dimensional maniacs, mind you, but the scenes revealing the immoral and corrupt priesthood at the Temple was indeed a very accurate representation of that time period, so there was no need to take offense with Gibson for revealing that in his movie.
The bottom line was this: people saw what they wanted to see. I found the Christians I spoke with were so captivated and moved by Jesus and his suffering that they were barely aware of the background role the Jews had in the film, while Jews who saw the movie were acutely aware of the way the Jews were presented on screen, picking apart the inaccuracies and unfair depictions, but otherwise bored and/or grossed out by the bloody and graphic imagery.
All in all, I thought that Gibson tried his best to stay on message with the Christian Bible, while adding his own masochistic movie flair with the mega close-ups and super slow-motion shots of blood and guts.
So, if Gibson's movie was not such a big anti-Jewish blood libel after all, why did the left go so nuts over it being the second coming of Birth of a Nation? Why did we see on TV every night Gibson's anti-Semitic father ranting like a mad man denying the Holocaust for all who would listen? Why was Gibson turned down by every producer in Hollywood before he resorted to making the movie himself?
The answer is pure, anti-religious/anti-Christian bigotry, gang.
How much anti-Semitism the Jewish Left creates by using leftwing lawyers (many of them Jewish) to stop the Christians from putting up Nativity scenes or Christmas trees on public property we cannot really measure, but it can't be good for the popularity of Jews to do these things.
How much resentment against Jews is there created by liberal Jewish groups who support banning the Ten Commandments from the courthouse or Under God from the Pledge of allegiance? We can't measure the damage specifically, but let's face it, that's no way for Jews to win over Christians.
Which brings us to Spielberg's wretched blood-libel movie, Munich.
This vile movie is produced by a self-loathing Jew (Spielberg) who hired a virulently anti-Semitic Jew (Tony Kushner) to create a script that depicts Israel and the Jews as racist villains who coldly persecute cuddly, humanist Palestinians without mercy.
Kushner has often preached that Israel's founding was a grave and monumental mistake. He is a devout Palestinian activist who publicly speaks against Israel and for "Palestine" on a regular basis.
Of course, Spielberg himself is a card carrying, leftwing Hollywood Democrat who ranks the afternoon he spent with Fidel Castro as the best day of his life, so let's not exactly confuse him for being a red state tough guy.
The problem isn't just that self-loathing Spielberg made a movie which is pro-Palestinian. The problem is that he has contributed to the world's hatred of Jews by lying on camera to give the illusion that the moslems are the good guys and the Jews are the bad guys...or at least that one is no different from the other.
Thanks, Stevey. We need you and your self-loathing buddies like a hole in the head. I'd take Gibson over you and your kind any day of the week. Please, stop putting out your hate the Jews propaganda, already.
I just hate these leftwing bums. I am officially boycotting Spielberg, and I hope all of you will as well.
-MZ
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I sure hope that post was ok...you know, for a guy who's had about 10 beers.
I saw the mobs on Passion as typical of any population of the time.
Mostly pissed off poor peasants under the yoke of corrupt feudalists (and their lapdogs) who had little but their religion - and Christ was an unwelcome heretic according to those they depended on for their scraps - namely the corrupt wealthy leaders to whom Christ was the actual threat.
Herod and his ilk sold out many of their own to appease their Roman masters and Christ was but one of many scapegoats.
This scenario has been repeated countless times before and after Christ all over the world and people only know what they are told.
And of course, there is that little fact that Christ, His family, and His apostles were all Jews lol (not to mention all Christians for a good long time afterwards).
Any Christian that could react with anti-semitic feelings after seeing the Passion has either been lied to or has fooled himself.
Mary is believed to have descended from King David - and since the OT we revere (and that dovetails with the NT) is the works of Hebrew prophets, anti-semitism is just retarded.
If the Bible teaches us anything it is that God deals most harshly with Gomorrahn Jews and any other enemies of Israel.
I also understood the anger of the Jews in the movie for reasons other than the manipulations of the Pharisees.
They were being royally screwed by the Romans and a traitor named Herod and the last thing they wanted to hear was a pacifist - and they sure as hell didnt want him to gain a following.
They heard "accept the yoke" but as we know, that is something men of moral conviction cannot do.
They simply cant.
They will fight - and this is why Barrabas was preferred.
He was fighting the authors of so much Jewish sorrow and suffering, and regardless of whether he was discriminate or honorable, he was a brave enemy of the empire.
Christ was prescribing something equally hard: transcending the harsh (and usually short) reality of life for immortality on the other side.
How hard is that?
Today we certainly dont want to accept the manacles of our enemies and wait for justice after death.
Neither did the Jews of that time.
Actual Christianity is one of the hardest things to follow, but I think that's part of the allure.
I mean, mankind would NEVER put so many restrictions on himself - or demand such patience and honesty.
This sets Judaism and Christianity apart from the other religions as our God makes no excuses for depravity or pretense.
He punishes them - and he does it by simply giving us enough rope to hang ourselves with (something we are very adept at).
The hardest part of course is watching the neighborhood bully beat up on the skinny kid - or I should say it's hardest to intervene without givin him 5 across the chops because we know we will simply take the beating for the skinny kid, then the bully will pound him anyway.
This of course becomes a potentially fatal equation if the bully has a weapon.
In such a case, you take him out or he takes you out - then takes out his original victim.
I mean, self sacrifice is fine, but not if it doesnt lead to victory..
Anyhow, I digress.
Christ's message sounded like hippy talk to many Jews, and like treason to others.
They often simply couldnt believe He was the son of God and had suffered too much to be passive.
He knew it would happen, and it would have happened anywhere.
It was an intentional martyrdom (one that we are taught was directly instrumental in our salvation) and whether or not He was the messiah, we are reminded that the son not be faulted for the sins of the father - and of all the crimes of Christendom's past.
In light of history, Christ's origins, the lessons of scripture, and today's context, resentment either way is more than stupid.
It's self-destructive.
In effect, the Torah is the root of our civilization, and Israel has few other friends.
I am convinced one dies without the other.
If Israel falls, the US and the West will crumble and fall as well.
If the US falls, Israel will be snuffed.
To me, the Passion provided a strong reminder of this by vividly depicting the world from which Christ came after 9/11 focused my attention on what it has become.
It enforced my support for Israel and my contempt for those that oppress others for their religion (namely commies and muslims).
I am sure I was only one of a majority - and remember who we see behaving like the Roman soldiers and the mobs of the Passion today.
It's not Jews..
Oh yea, and Spielberg's a sissy.
I hope he spent lots of dough on that drivel and it flops.
Of course that's daydreaming.
Anything that pro-jihadi will be a huge hit in piss-bather land.
Of course it will be pirated and overdubbed like crazy, but all the good little commies here will go see it at the request of their "professors".
They'll probably get extra credit for it.
Meanwhile, I'm waiting for someone like Gibson (or Jackson maybe?) to remake The Ten Commandments with modern tech.
It would be awesome - and it would stick really bad in the craw of the hollywood Gomorrahns.
Kyle, I've put your blog up on my links list.
-MZ
ohhhh-kaaayyy, on more thing to add to the nanchouse boycott list - but may we keep our e.t. movie?
it was a gift from my oldest child over twenty years ago and the aliens were botanists! the movie was made B-4 spielberg lost what was left of his mind.
Kyle I sure do understand it, but let's remember that Ghandi was dealing with the Christian British - not the coldblooded pagan Romans, and they had different aims.
Christ wasnt there to stand up to the the Romans - peacefully or otherwise.
He advocated no resistance or civil disobedience (he knew how the Romans dealt with such things).
He advocated compliance with Caesar and battle with ones own demons.
As he said, men must change before kings do (meaning, even if you could beat the Romans, little would change because it is man's own corruption that allows such a world in the 1st place - in other words, the 7 deadly sins must be rejected or there will always be "Romans" in one form or another).
Certainly a long term goal lol - but an inexorable one if the truth is known (and faced).
This is also why Pilate didnt want to kill Him.
He saw no imminent threat.
He had no fear of the passive.
Ghandi on the other hand, advocated temporal political confrontation with a weaker, receding, and far less brutal empire.
He also had a LOT more followers.
Quite a different context I would say.
The Romans would have killed him immediately for inciting resistance of any sort and any followers would have been put down without mercy.
Heck, that comparison is even unnecessary.
Had he been dealing with the Ottomans instead of the Brits the same would have happened.
Not to belittle Ghandi, he was a great and exceedingly brave man, but their respective impacts on the world are as a mountain to a pebble.
Despite the world's vast Hindu, Muslim, and Buddhist populations (among others), Judaism and Christianity have each in their own right, shaped and advanced civilization more than all the rest combined.
Men of our common scripture (Torah/OT) like Moses, Isaiah, David, and Solomon - then the NT testimonies of Christ (who Christians believe incorporated and bore out the teachings of the aforementioned in His teachings), are the authors of most of the good man has done and most of his climb out of barbarity and animal depravity.
A solid chain of mighty inspiration unapproached, in terms of positive results, by any other religion(s).
An inspiration that quietly and unstoppably affects any who will listen.
By comparison, the rest babble platitudes at best or teach evil at worst, and the proof is in the pudding.
To be plain, despite all the wars fo the West, the Buddhist, Hindu, and Muslim worlds are still crap by comparison.
I've been there.
It's just...nasty.
They can KEEP it.
Judeo-Christian civilization advanced beyond the rest because men changed - something rarely and barely done outside of it.
It is no coincidence.
Better is simply better.
kuhnkat - nancfamily has a pet calf named "cheeseburger" and we fully intend to eat him - omg - we are e.t.'s!
E.T.= Eating Terrestrials
Taste like chicken.
Peedoff! Good to see you here...it's been way too long, my friend.
peedoff - a sight for sore eyes!
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