To Whom It May Concern

The Passion Of Hypocrisy

I have yet to see the film "The Passion of Christ", but from what I have heard it is an epic film, extremely realistic and follows elements of the New Testament from the Bible pretty closely. What just boggles the mind is how many Jewish people are attacking this film. They lash out at the film, saying it puts Jews in a bad light.

It's completely hypocritical of them to do so. Just how many movies have been about the Holocaust during WWII, or had the Holocaust as some integral part of the film? Dozens at least, possibly hundreds. I doubt you will find even ONE of these films portraying the Germans as benevolent, wonderful people with admirable character. Yet you don't hear them bitching and whining about those movies. Why??? Because they KNOW the way they treated the Jews and many other groups of people during WWII was deplorable.

The same can be said for the Jesus' treatment by the Jews, as accounted for in the Bible. There are literally hundreds of millions of people around the world who subscribe to the teachings found within the Bible as historical truth, plus the New Testament in the Bible is told from several points of view, hence the names of the Books, Luke, John, Matthew, etc, and those books corroborate one another for the most part. So why are Jewish leaders being hypocritical about this particular movie, saying that it portrays Jews in a bad light?

Mel Gibson said quite plainly that the movie was going to follow, to the best of his abilities to make it do so, the story as told in the Bible. In the Bible, the Romans ask the Jewish people if Jesus should be spared, to which there was a vehement negative response. The Jewish people spat at Jesus, tore at his hair and clothing, and called for his death. Yet as the story is told, a full 2000 years after the death of Jesus Christ, Jewish leaders are having a fit over what happened, way back then? Give me a break.

Nearly every religion, race, creed, etc, can point to a difficult period in which terrible misdeeds can be attributed to them, cripes, it is what about half of all movies are about in some form or another, the horrible injustice towards someone by someone else. You don't hear the British screaming about "The Patriot" movie, or the Russians having a shit-fit over "The Hunt For Red October", do you? No you don't, yet Jewish leaders believe they should be given preferential treatment??? For WHAT???

If you don't believe the Bible to be a fairy tale, something to remember is this: most movies are based on fiction, even those that fault a particular group of people may have a truthful plot, but in the end need a LOT of filler material to keep the movie going ("Pear Harbor" anyone?).

Something Jewish people need to realize, hell, something we all need to realize... no one is perfect, everyone has had faults, either by themselves or their ancestry, it's how you live today that judges who you are, and by sniveling and whining about something that in all likelihood actually happened in your past, you do nothing more than expose yourselves as shallow contemptuous characters in the present.