The Angry Fat Man

I'm tired of the trash I hear people, who haven't seen it yet, mind you, talking about Mel's new movie coming out. Mel Gibson's The Passion of the Christ is looking to be one of THE experiences of a lifetime, supposedly a movie that is so moving that everyone who has seen it has come away feeling changed.

Here's the rant-age.....
The wife's going to hate me bringing up religion, but I hate it when people call out someone else's motives/intent. Mel is just trying to create a work that is close to what we KNOW as truth, he hasn't glitzed it, hasn't made it "shocking" in the sense that Jesus was tempted or gay like some other movies in the past.
Here's the points of issue:
Jesus' followers were mostly Jewish and it is true that his persecutors were Jewish and the people who killed him were Jewish, Jesus was raised Jewish and followed the Seder meal on his last day.... It's the time and place of his life and death...he was surrounded by Jews. Had he been born in Africa it would have been Africans, had he been born in Rome, it would have been Romans....etc....NO SHIT the people that killed him were Jews.

On the same token, if Mel's vision and account are as close as you could possible get to the bible and other works, then inferrences are being made upon this relationship between Jesus and the Jews and now this movie....stop it, that's just stupid.

It's like saying, a majority of slave masters were white, therefore all white folks in the US ARE now slave owners. Your talking about the distance of time and societal changes here....

Catholics are not and should not be anti-semitic, the big guy in the chair in Rome has said as much...and truthfully, if we are leading a true Christ-like life, we should be accepting of everyone. We shouldn't judge or say "they are going to hell" or "you're wrong", that would not be his way. God will show someone the way they are to live, not us. That's the key. Mel may be a "traditional" Christian, but if he does truly follow the teachings of Christ, he does not feel either way about Jewish people, and he especially does not hate them because "they killed Christ". If anything, Mel actually follows the original "Traditions" (note the Big T!) that the earlier or Eastern Catholic church does, which is closer to Judaism than the rest of us!

Get over the news stories, go see the movie yourself and then judge.