Reply #26: gospel truth? [View All]

From the report..

The Emmerich work contains such extra-biblical elements as:

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Scenes of the brutalizing of Jesus not present in the gospels, such as Jewish figures dragging him around with a bag over his head so that it violently impacts against stone.

dude, Jesus was crucified. it doesn't get much more brutal than that.

you and the reviewers have bandied about the "anti-semitic" label, and cited as evidence the film's unfaithfulness to the gospels. but let me ask you this. wouldn't you say the same thing if the film DID adhere strictly to the gospels? in fact, the gospels DO unambiguously ascribe a large role in Jesus's death to (some) Jews. is that anti-semitic, and why?

if you're going cry anti-semitism whenever (some) Jews are depicted in a less-than-flattering light, then i would ask you to apply the same standard to every other religious and ethnic group. literature and the movies would be limited to colorless, featureless, bland and generic villains with no religion or country.

did you also get your panties in a bunch about the movie "battle of the bulge" being "anti-german", for example? or "tora tora tora" as being "anti-Japanese"?