A Gospel Of Love And Hope
A Gospel of Love and Hope: How to Respond to Mel Gibson’s “Passion”
By Rabbi Michael Lerner, Editor, Tikkun Magazine
Mel Gibson unlocked the secret of why Americans have never confronted anti-Semitism in the way that we did with the other great systems of hatred (racism, sexism, homophobia) when he told a national t.v. audience on February 16 that “the Jews’ real complaint isn’t with my film (The Passion) but with the Gospels.” Few Christians today know the history of anti-Semitism and the way that the Passion stories were central to rekindling hatred of Jews from generation to generation. Many are embracing Gibson’s movie and not understanding why Jews seem to be so threatened. Gibson knows that for many Americans it is simply unimaginable to question the Gospels.
Those who wanted to purge hatred of Jews from the collective unconscious of Western societies after the defeat of Nazism in 1945 faced an impossible dilemma. The dominant religious tradition of the......
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