Reply #76: Critics of this film are either ignorant or have an agenda...

[The_Golden_Child]

How could a film based on the Gospel accounts of Jesus' execution be anti-Semitic when everyone involved, aside from the Roman governor and the Roman soldiers, was Jewish?

Some of these Jewish people were good people and some of them were bad people. Jesus was Jewish. The Apostles were Jewish. Mary, Mary Magdalen, Simon of Cyrene-- all Jewish. Some of the bad Jewish people trumped up charges against Jesus, a fellow Jew, and demanded that Pontius Pilate execute him. Meanwhile, many good Jewish people stood by Jesus' side and themselves were executed in later years by the Romans.

Someone please tell me how this story, on its own merit, is anti-semetic?

If that's the case, we shouldn't make any movies about the Civil War because it makes Americans out to be bad people...