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A rabbi tells Candace Owens that the movie Passion of the Christ is anti-Semitic if you don’t accept Jesus as your Lord and savior
aderito
We hope one day they will all be converted and accept Jesus as Lord
The Wandering Recluse
From a viewpoint such as his, Jesus Himself is antisemitic as well as the Church He founded. The rabbi's views of the Passion are anti-Catholic, it is just the way it is.
Sean Johnson
“His blood be upon us, and upon our children!”
God consented to the request, and they have been accursed ever since (and will be, until they convert en masse in the end times).More
“His blood be upon us, and upon our children!”

God consented to the request, and they have been accursed ever since (and will be, until they convert en masse in the end times).
DrMaria
It's not anti-semitic -- rather, it's historically and biblically accurate. Get real -----
philosopher
This is one Rabbi's opinion that doesn't represent all of Judaism. This from Denis Prager,
"Early this past summer, Mel Gibson invited me to see “The Passion,” his film on the trial and crucifixion of Jesus. The invitation was significant in that I was the first practicing Jew and active member of the American Jewish community to be invited. He did so because he believed, correctly, that he could …More
This is one Rabbi's opinion that doesn't represent all of Judaism. This from Denis Prager,

"Early this past summer, Mel Gibson invited me to see “The Passion,” his film on the trial and crucifixion of Jesus. The invitation was significant in that I was the first practicing Jew and active member of the American Jewish community to be invited. He did so because he believed, correctly, that he could trust me. I have long worked to build trust between Jews and Christians, especially traditional Christians.

The increasing tension over this film has reinforced impressions I offered Mel Gibson that day. When watching “The Passion,” Jews and Christians are watching two entirely different films.

For two hours, Christians watch their Savior tortured and killed. For the same two hours, Jews watch Jews arrange the killing and torture of the Christians’ Savior.

In order to avoid further tension between two wonderful communities that had been well on their way to historic amity, it is crucial for each to try to understand what film the other is watching and reacting to.

First, what Jews see. The Jews in the film (except, of course, for those who believe in Jesus) are cruel and often sadistic. One prominent Christian who saw the film along with my wife and me said that while watching the film he wanted to take a gun and shoot those who had brought such pain to Jesus. I couldn’t blame him. The Jews in the film manipulate the Romans — who are depicted as patsies of the Jews and in the case of Pilate, as morally far more elevated — into torturing and murdering a beautiful man.

Why does this bother Jews so much? Because for nearly 2,000 years, attacked as “Christ-killers,” countless Jewish men, women and children were tortured and murdered in ways that often caused more suffering than even Jesus endured (e.g., not only tortured and murdered themselves, but also seeing their families and friends raped, tortured and murdered). For Jews to worry that a major movie made by one of the world’s superstars depicts Jews as having Christ tortured and killed might arouse anti-Semitic passions is not paranoid. Even though Islam denies the crucifixion, it is difficult to imagine that this film will not be a hit in the virulently anti-Semitic Arab world.

It is essential that Christians understand this. Every Jew, secular, religious, assimilated, left-wing, right-wing, fears being killed because he is Jewish. This is the best-kept secret about Jews, who are widely perceived as inordinately secure and powerful. But it is the only universally held sentiment among Jews. After the Holocaust and with Islamic terrorists seeking to murder Jews today, this, too, is not paranoid.

However, what Jews need to understand is that most American Christians watching this film do not see “the Jews” as the villains in the passion story historically, let alone today. First, most American Christians — Catholic and Protestant — believe that a sinning humanity killed Jesus, not “the Jews.” Second, they know that Christ’s entire purpose was to come to this world and to be killed for humanity’s sins. To the Christian, God made it happen, not the Jews or the Romans (the Book of Acts says precisely that). Third, a Christian who hates Jews today for what he believes some Jews did 2,000 years ago only reflects on the low moral, intellectual and religious state of that Christian. Imagine what Jews would think of a Jew who hated Egyptians after watching “The Ten Commandments,” and you get an idea of how most Christians would regard a Christian who hated Jews after watching “The Passion.”

Jews also need to understand another aspect of “The Passion” controversy. Just as Jews are responding to centuries of Christian anti-Semitism (virtually all of it in Europe), many Christians are responding to decades of Christian-bashing — films and art mocking Christian symbols, a war on virtually any public Christian expression (from the death of the Christmas party to the moral identification of fundamentalist Christians with fundamentalist Muslims). Moreover, many Jewish groups and media people now attacking “The Passion” have a history of irresponsibly labeling conservative Christians anti-Semitic.

I cannot say that I am happy this film was made. Nevertheless, if the vast majority of Christians and Jews of goodwill try hard to understand what film the other is watching, some good can yet result. The last thing Jews need is to create tension with their best friends. And the last thing Christians need is a renewal of Christian hatred toward Jesus’ people."
jenö
Die Juden als auserwähltes Volk Gottes dadurch, dass sie Jesus, den einzigen Sohn Gottes kreuzigten haben kein Recht sich über Antisemitismus zu beklagen. Jesus kam um die verirrten Schafe des Volkes Israel zu erlösen was dieses störrische Volk bis heute nicht begriffen hat.
jenö
The Jews, as the chosen people of God by crucifying Jesus, the only Son of God, have no right to complain about anti-Semitism. Jesus came to redeem the lost sheep of the people of Israel, which this stubborn people have not yet understood.
Orthocat
Of course he does, if you reject the Gospel - you reject Christ. So he interprets this as an attack on himself.
Alejandrina Reyes
The movie is not about this man, but about Jesus . If this triggered something in him …. Welll it has been many years that he still ruminates it… why? What for ? I have seen Cristiada or films from the Spanish Civil War against the Church , those were real attacks on Christians and we don’t cry like him .
moranmarta15
Rabi you are ANTI - CHRIST. END OF STORY. DON'T WATCH OUR MOVIES. WE DON'T WATCH YOURS TO COMPLAIN AND PLAYING VICTIMS. THIS GUY IS DOING EVIL ACTING GOOD AND PIOUS. STOP.
giveusthisday
Actually, moranmarta, we watch their movies _all_ the time, did you see the Diary of Anne Frank? There are many, many movies and books about the alleged holocaust and generally people are sympathetic, because our values are to love our neighbor.
moranmarta15
@giveusthisday, we watch it not with evil intention to attack them in every way possible. We watch it to get informed to understand, to love , to forgive, etc.... good intentions!!!!
moranmarta15
I am calling rabi about his
" nazi"intentions