Reply #13: I share your concern, AZ [View All]

[truth2power]

Our local paper has already run pictures of distraught people being comforted by relatives after having seen the movie. (a pre-screening, I think) This behavior is being hyped to the extreme.

And no one here has mentioned that one can now purchase nails on a chain, sold at christian bookstores according to what I've seen on the news.

I have a bad feeling about this. I have witnessed, in my own community, what happens when the Fundies get stirred up over some alleged insult to Jeezus. And it isn't pretty.

I don't mean to minimize the anti-semitism issue, but I think that's only part of it. The religious fervor you describe could easily get out of hand, and in that event you won't have to be Jewish to be targeted.

I think I'm gonna bookmark this thread for future reference.

BTW, I saw Gibson's interview and he acted like he was on something....don't know what. And the film clips they showed were, IMO gratuitously bloody.