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I may be naive and for this I ask forgiveness, but I truly saw nothing anti-semitic in the Passion.

Nor did I see how it was this great revelation and affirmation of Christianity as practiced today (by the religious right who are the ones that as a whole went gaga over this movie.)

What I saw in the Passion was a man who held his beliefs and love of ALL mankind so strongly that he was willing to die for those beliefs and love. And as with many whom have held publicly views of love and belief in ALL men, those around him who did not understand were scared because of a loss of power over the people and sought to destroy him and his following before their power was questioned. To me it wasn't a question of what Jews or the Romans did to him, it was about those in power did to him. (And as we see with the "religious right" power and what they say does not equal the majority belief system.)

I cannot see how anyone who claims to be Christian can blame the Jewish faith as a whole or in any way for Christ's death. Christ, himself, I believe would shudder at the thought and tell us that is so far from truth and that it was distorted by those who want control and to spread fear and not what HE truly stood for.

First, it was meant to happen that he died for our sins so those who did kill him were doing so with Divine favor.

Secondly, there is corruption in ALL organized religion and those in power will do whatever it takes (even change tenets and canons of belief) to keep power.

Finally, I don't believe Christ himself would have blamed anyone for his death, but rather knew that man was not ready for his views of love and belief in mankind. He did however know that he sowed the seeds of love, kindness and compassion and helped explain them a little more and grow in man's heart a little more.

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I just love people who use the excuse "I use/do this because I LOVE the feeling/joy/happiness it brings me" and expect you to be ok with that as you watch them destroy their life blindly following. My response is, "I like to put forks in an eletrical socket, just LOVE that feeling, can't ever get enough of it, so will you let me put this copper fork in that electric socket?"