Mel Gibson looks right for movie on Jesus - washtimes.com

These charges of anti-semitism are ridiculous! Let's face facts here: a group of Jews were responsible for the death of Christ. They were playing a part in God's plan for the salvation of mankind. As distasteful as that role was, it doesn't mean that the Jewish were or are responsible and deserve retribution in any way, shape, or form. Christ Himself forgave them from the cross.

It is no more fair to paint all Jews with the same brush as those few responsible for Christ's death than it is to paint all Roman Catholics with the same brush as the pedophile priests of recent scandals or to paint all Arabs as terrorists because of the actions of a few extremists. That's prejudice, my friends. From all I have read about this film, prejudice is not a factor. The protagonists and the antagonists (except Pilate) are all Jewish.

In the story of Christ's passion, the "bad guys" are Jewish. In a story of the Spanish Inquisition, the "bad guys" would be Catholic. Would an historically accurate film of the events in New York and Washington on September 11, 2001 be labeled as anti-Arab? After all, the Arab men who carried out those attacks were the "bad guys" in that event, weren't they?

Mel Gibson is trying to put together a realistic film that is as historically accurate as is possible. It was a bloody, brutal and viciously hateful event, made even worse by the fact that it was happening to the Son of God. The story is so well-known and often-told (or made into films) that I fear it has become taken for granted by many of us, myself included. History is just not always politically correct. I fully support Mr. Gibson on this worthy and gutsy endeavor.