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the passion is anti-semitic

Don't agree about The Passion; I did not see whatever you saw in it.

"I do not see anti-semitisim here" is an argument from ignorance, which is a fallacy. That you don't know a reason to think something doesn't argue in the slightest it's false.

If you want to argue it's not anti-semitic, you must first find out the specific charges (learn the argument that it *is*) and then criticise that. In this case the argument it's anti-semitic is that it's a passion play in the grand tradition of anti-semitic passion plays. to refute this, you can explain how it's not a passion play (in the sense of the tradition not name) (good luck :D), explain how the tradition isn't anti-semitic, or come up with something else.

as for the argument that the plays are anti-semitic, so you can engage with and refute it if you like, The World posted about it here. the link for passion plays in particular is this. also The Passion was based off Emmerich's book in part, and Emmerich says in very short that jews killed jesus, became cursed, and were themselves at fault for all this. also that the jews were evil, and that this evil transmits itself to babies so it'll last through the generations.

-- Elliot Temple
http://www.curi.us/

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