Thus, the Soviet Union, not America's young, bore the brunt of defeating Nazi Germany.one of the most troublesome texts, relative to anti-Semitic potential, that any of us had seen in twenty-five years.
Unless this basic storyline has been altered by Mr. Gibson, a fringe Catholic who is building his own church in the Los Angeles area and who apparently accepts neither the teachings of Vatican II nor modern biblical scholarship, The Passion of the Christ retains a real potential for undermining the repudiation of classical Christian anti-Semitism by the churches in the last forty years.
Absent such scholarly and theological understanding, productions such as The Passion could likely falsify history and fuel the animus of those who hate Jews.
[58] Anti-Semitism, like all forms of racism, distorts the truth in order to put a whole race of people in a bad light.
It captures the subtleties and the horror of sin, as well as the gentle power of love and forgiveness, without making or insinuating blanket condemnations against one group.