Reply #6: Excellent point! [View All]

[liberalhistorian]

That's always been my problem with any performance of the "passion" play. Jews in Europe, especially, always suffered after performances of it and lived in tremendous fear during the whole "passion" season.

And, as a Christian, I agree with the OP, and Gibson has, indeed, chosen the wrong angle because Christ himself didn't want any focus on his own suffering, it was, and still is, the suffering of human beings (such as those dying of AIDS, as another poster mentioned) that he wanted and wants the focus to be on and something to be done about.