{"id":7835,"date":"2004-02-26T10:37:29","date_gmt":"2004-02-26T10:37:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/viamedia\/2004\/02\/stations_of_the_crass.html"},"modified":"2004-02-26T10:37:29","modified_gmt":"2004-02-26T10:37:29","slug":"stations_of_the_crass","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/viamedia\/2004\/02\/stations_of_the_crass.html","title":{"rendered":"Stations of the Crass"},"content":{"rendered":"

Maureen Dowd<\/a><\/p>\n

I went with a Jewish pal, who tried to stay sanguine. “The Jews may have killed Jesus,” he said. “But they also gave us `Easter Parade.’ ”<\/p>\n

The movie’s message, as Jesus says, is that you must love not only those who love you, but more importantly those who hate you.<\/p>\n

So presumably you should come out of the theater suffused with charity toward your fellow man.<\/p>\n

But this is a Mel Gibson film, so you come out wanting to kick somebody’s teeth in.<\/p>\n

In “Braveheart” and “The Patriot,” his other emotionally manipulative historical epics, you came out wanting to swing an ax into the skull of the nearest Englishman. Here, you want to kick in some Jewish and Roman teeth. And since the Romans have melted into history . . .<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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