Thanks for the Stratfor cpy Jay - here my contribution for today:
"As bad as your opinion about Mel Gibson's film of the passion of Jesus Christ may be, he made two things clear: the death of Jesus was a beastly affair, and in the Christian reports about this death Jews make a bad impression. The beginnings of the Christianity are thus marked by violence. The violence, suffered by Jesus on the cross, violence, which suffered again and again by Christians because of their religion. Then on top of this, in a bitter story of an abuse of the cross, the violence of Christians against Jewish "murderers of the God" and against anybody, who stood in the way of their crusades. The violent origin of the Christianity seems nearly forgotten. There's good reasons, however, to remember again these origins. Not because of some motion picture. It is because the violence has returned into the Christian West, with an intensity, that until recently nobody could have imagined."
see the rest on FADG
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happy crucifixion day e'body - dont be late, 15:00, outside Damaskus gate (sg) - |
