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Thread ID: 12525 | Posts: 10 | Started: 2004-02-25
2004-02-25 20:17 | User Profile
It's been worth it, if only to see the zhids going ape-shit. The observation that the zhid cries out in pain while it strikes you has again been demonstrated to be true. Note the hand-picked assurances from the clergy that it weren't the zhids. And additional reporting by zhid Herskovitz.
By Ellen Wulfhorst and Mark Egan
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Mel Gibson's controversial movie "The Passion of the Christ" opened in cinemas across the United States on Wednesday as Jewish groups decried it as anti-Semitic and New York's Catholic cardinal stressed Jews did not kill Jesus.
Manhattan cinemas opened doors early for people eager to see a film that has been harshly criticized by some prominent film reviewers ahead of its release in 2,800 theaters nationwide -- an opening more normally reserved for blockbusters like Gibson's "Lethal Weapon" series.
"I thought it was a great movie," said Elsie Figueroa after an early showing at an Upper East Side theater. "People are being too sensitive about it. The Romans are the ones who nailed him to the cross and the Jews helped. It was everyone."
Jewish and other religious groups planned protests later in the day. Among them Amcha, The Coalition for Jewish Concerns, planned to protest wearing concentration camp uniforms at one New York theater to liken the film's portrayal of Jews as akin to the Nazi Holocaust.
New York's Cardinal Edward Egan wrote to parishes to stress that Jews were not responsible for the crucifixion of Jesus.
"He gave His Life for us," Egan wrote in a column to appear in next month's issue of Catholic New York. "No one took it from Him. This is, and has always been, Catholic doctrine."
The film produced spirited debate outside the East Side theater as the audience left.
**"Give us a chance to see the movie," Exodus Nicholas shouted at a Jewish woman who was complaining about the film.
"Jews should give us a chance to know who Jesus was, to know our history. If we really believe in Jesus and what he stood for we come out of this movie loving people," Nicholas said.**
Rabbi Avi Weiss, president of Amcha, saw the same screening. "I care deeply about Jewish-Christian relations," he said. "This is a tremendous, tremendous setback. I hope this will not be accepted by Christians in this country. It is this lie, the lie that Jews were responsible for the murder of Jesus, which planted the seeds of the Holocaust."
Thousands also turned out in suburban Dallas, Texas, to view it and flocked through the predawn darkness for a free mass screening at a Cineplex in Plano, where it was being shown on all 20 screens throughout the day.
Baptist businessman Arch Bonnema bought 6,000 movie tickets and distributed them to groups in the area, including the Prestonwood Baptist Church, one of the largest in the region.
"I am overwhelmed by the turnout. I did not think that we would have enough people to fill one screen for a movie shown at 6:30 a.m.," Bonnema said.
"The movie is not anti-Semitic," he said. "There are a group of people out there who just hate and will do anything to fuel hate."
In recent days, the movie's producers have manufactured a frenzied buzz around the opening by arranging advance screenings in U.S. cities for church groups. But the official opening was orchestrated for Ash Wednesday, the start of Lent -- the Christian season of penance before Easter.
BREAKFAST TIME VIEWING
While moviegoers enjoyed their breakfast time viewing of the blood-soaked movie -- many of them with their foreheads dabbed with ash from earlier church services -- critics continued to complain that Gibson had lost the plot.
The New York Times said the film was half "horror movie" and half "slasher film" and likened its cruelty, brutality and violence to that of Quentin Tarantino, best known for directing "Pulp Fiction" and the more recent "Kill Bill."
**The newspaper played down accusations of anti-Semitism that has been leveled against Gibson's directorial work, saying the villainous portrayal of Jews in the film "does not seem to exceed what can be found in the source material."
"To condemn 'The Passion of the Christ' for its supposed bigotry is to miss its point and to misstate its problems," A.O. Scott wrote in The Times.
"'The Passion of the Christ' never provides a clear sense of what all the bloodshed was for, an inconclusiveness that is Mr. Gibson's most serious artistic flaw," he added.**
Not all critics saw the film in a negative light. Some praised it, including Roger Ebert who it "a very great film."
Retired physician Maria Kempf, who is Greek Orthodox, said the movie "brings a sense of hope because the message was love. The blame was not on one ethnic group. The blame was across the board. This movie should not have caused so much controversy."
(Additional reporting by Jon Herskovitz in Plano, Texas)
2004-02-25 20:54 | User Profile
I really hope they do protest wearing concentration camp uniforms. Even some idiots are bound to see THAT for what it is.
2004-02-25 22:24 | User Profile
Ah, memories...
The Coalition for Jewish Concerns, planned to protest wearing concentration camp uniforms at one New York theater to liken the film's portrayal of Jews as akin to the Nazi Holocaust.
I thought about something that occurred in the past and read this:
Rabbi Avi Weiss, president of Amcha, saw the same screening. "I care deeply about Jewish-Christian relations," he said. "This is a tremendous, tremendous setback. I hope this will not be accepted by Christians in this country. It is this lie, the lie that Jews were responsible for the murder of Jesus, which planted the seeds of the Holocaust."
Yep, history repeats itself. It is the obnoxious prick Avi Wiess and his pajama wearing brigade of "victims" meant to make the rest of us feel guilt ridden. This s.o.b. and his buddies made first rate asses out of themselves at a Buchanan rally I attended years ago. It nearly became a riot.
Too bad it didn't.
2004-02-25 22:25 | User Profile
What's wrong with my original title, "Zhids going ape-shit"?
2004-02-25 22:32 | User Profile
Don't lookit [I]me[/I]; I'm still wondering where 'The Invisible Handjob" darted off to.
2004-02-25 22:39 | User Profile
Just tryin' to keep our jew criticism scatologically free.
2004-02-25 22:41 | User Profile
That applies only to the word 'shit'.
2004-02-26 03:05 | User Profile
[QUOTE=Hugh Lincoln]I really hope they do protest wearing concentration camp uniforms. Even some idiots are bound to see THAT for what it is.[/QUOTE]
They had some of these morons front and center on CNN tonight.
It was a laff riot, I tell ya.
2004-02-29 23:31 | User Profile
[QUOTE=Hugh Lincoln]I really hope they do protest wearing concentration camp uniforms. Even some idiots are bound to see THAT for what it is.[/QUOTE]
I agree.
It boggles the mind how they drag in "the holacaust" into this.
"Oy vey, da sufferink."
If you ask me, it is behavior such as this which broods anti-semitism. :angry:
2004-02-29 23:45 | User Profile
There are many here who are non-believers. I myself am a believer.
And what I have come to believe is that it must be Satan himself orchestrating this implacable hatred of Christ. That is why the gloves need to come off when it comes to the Jews. They're not Jews -- they're filthy, nasty kikes -- and they need to be dealt with using the only language the kike understands.
Why should we address these kikes with terms of respect like "Jew" and "Jewish" when they offer nothing but the most vile, hate-filled calumny, and spit in our collective faces?
These attacks on Mel Gibson, Christianity, and The Passion are the last straw as far as I'm concerned. All that's necessary for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing.