Some genius has written me to suggest that I am a "Jew hater" because I have defended Mel Gibson's movie on Jesus of Nazareth. Hmmm. Well, for a couple of things, I am very proud of my own Jewish ancestry and am a stark raving Zionist in my sympathies. Other than those two minor facts...
Look, no one's going to come away from The Passion with any animus towards Jews that they don't already harbor. The only thing anyone is going to take from this is the cinematic memory of seeing a man's flesh shredded and punctured for the better part of two hours. That is the focus ---the obsessive focus--- of Gibson's movie and not what part the Jews played in that crime.
Anyway, I have already passed the final judgement on the whole issue of the Jews or the Romans or God himself as the final culprit some weeks ago when I pointed out that Jesus' execution is an indispensible fact of his importance to those who worship him. Get it? He had to die in order to be resurrected. Weren't Caiaphas and Pilate and the other guys just playing the roles that God had assigned to them? Weren't they merely means to an end?
It's enormously fucking stupid of anti-Semites (especially Christian ones) to accuse the perfidious Jews of anything having to do with the mistreatment of their Lord and Savior when, after all, he was a Jew who was simply trying to realize the final purpose of his Jewish religion, which was to manifest the Messiah. There would be no Christianity without the Jews. There'd be no Jesus or Mary or Peter or Paul or any Apostle or Passover or The Holy Bible itself without the Jews.
Like (Sir) Mick Jagger said a long time ago, everybody wants to step on their Creator. Before there was God, there was Yahweh, you anonymous dumbass. Isn't that proof enough of Christianity's debt to Judaism? Do you imagine that Mel Gibson or his Holocaust-denying father have the power to detract from that?