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To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (183873)	2/29/2004 8:22:32 PM
From: Amy J	Respond to of 1575427

Tenchusatsu, RE: "I thought the violence in Braveheart and Saving Private Ryan was worse" Didn't see either of those movies. I'm really against violent movies and have stopped seeing USA movies as a result, unless maybe if it's PG rated, but even then. One time this guy asked me on a date to see "Silence of the Lambs." I said, sure love to go as long as the movie doesn't have any violence in it at all. He thought it was about lambs, probably a gentle movie if it's about lambs, he said. After the movie, he was pretty embarrassed and asked me if he blew it in a big way. RE: "I feel those who fear anti-Semitism simply have a beef with the Gospels themselves, not just Mel Gibson's movie." I wouldn't think in totality that way. Some people might place a higher priority on how sensitive others might take this movie - both the violence and the potrayal of who killed Jesus. You can be a very religious person, and yet, still have a high level of sensitivity to others inability to see violence or be sensitive to other people's perceptions of who killed Jesus. In fact, isn't the ultimate characteristic of a religious person, sensitivity and caring? RE: "Do you think all Germans should be condemned for what Hitler and the Nazis did?" The set of Germans that lived in Germany at the time of Hilter yet looked the other way as he killed Jewish people, should be condemned. My belief system says followers should be just as guilty as leaders, and my belief system arises in part from this aspect of history. On an unrelated note, if we had such a belief system in the USA, you would never see the stock market blow up like it did, because the followers would have been keeping a careful eye on their CEOs, not just blindly following. Germany's children should not be held responsible - and to be biased against Germany's children would be similar to being biased against Jewish children for whomever killed Christ. Neither are appropriate. Absolutely yes, the followers/watchers of such a horrible criminal act, should be equally as condemned as the leader that did it, for not stopping it when it was happening. But condemnation should never be passed onto offspring, since they had no role in what their ancestors did. Otherwise the world just keeps fighting. Regards, Amy J