DelightMachine
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"I don't think any sane person would have found the brutality in the film erotic." I disagree. As for what Mel Gibson owed the public, I'd say it's not right to raise fears among Jews, some of whom, still living, were put in death camps, and others the victims of persecution of various sorts. And you don't do it particularly when you're associating yourself with the Prince of Peace. And given Christian history, you don't raise those fears around the story of the Passion, which has been blasephemously used against Jews in the past. Given our history, we Christians have certain responsibilities to act in nonthreatening ways, which is the Christian thing to do, after all.
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