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Dear Michael:

 

This article by Rabbi Spiro was very enlightening. This historical

perspecive on the persecution of Jews because of the passion of

Christ is an important one.

 

When religions fight it out it is a terrible thing.

 

About Jews, I think a distinction needs to be made between the

religion and the people. The Jewish religion is made obsolete in the

true Christian's mind and not the people. The new law of Jesus

supercedes the old law of Moses and the guilt of the fall of Adam is

done away with by the sacrifice of the Lamb.

 

For modern Christians, Judaism just rises to a new level with

Christianity. For modern religious Jews this distinction is not

valid, but it is widely understood as the mindset of Christian

theology.

 

I think most Christians however lack empathy with the Jews, and the

Jews, knowing this, are very cautious about inflammatory events.

However the hoopla over this movie has made the event much bigger.

 

For myself, since I am more inclined to Yoga than religion, the error

of transfering the mistakes of individuals of Christ's time to the

group to which they belong (Jews), is the error of confounding the

specific for the general. An error which is common and difficult to

spot for emotionally charged minds.

 

It is an error of similars being confounded one for the other. Other

errors like this are confounding the relative for the absolute, and

the abstract for the concrete. The root of these mistakes is

confounding the mind for the Self, the most basic of the confusion of

similars.

 

So I would say, let the hoopla die down because censorship is a big

issue today and will cloud already soggy minds.

 

Love

Bobby G.