- Dear Jeff,
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- Satan wins again.
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- Although I know my decision will not affect Gibson's
movie in the least, a fence riding "church world" will make it
happen, truth matters not. I will not be seeing it! Either let God be true,
or make him a liar, but don't yield to devils. I refer to the following
excerpt:
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- Gibson to Delete a Scene in 'Passion'
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- By Sharon Waxman
- NY Times
- 2-3-4
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- LOS ANGELES - Mel Gibson,
responding to focus groups as much as to protests by Jewish critics, has
decided to delete a controversial scene about Jews from his film, "The
Passion of the Christ," a close associate said today.
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- A scene in the film, in which the Jewish high priest
Caiaphas calls down a kind of curse on the Jewish people by declaring of
the Crucifixion, "His blood be on us and on our children," will
not be in the movie's final version, said the Gibson associate, who spoke
on condition of anonymity.
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- The passage had been included in some versions of the
film that were shown before select groups, mostly of priests and ministers.
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- "It didn't work in the focus screenings," the
associate said. "Maybe it was thought to be too hurtful, or taken
not in the way it was intended. It has been used terribly over the years."
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- Jewish leaders had warned that the passage from Matthew
27:25 was the historic source for many of the charges of deicide and Jews'
collective guilt in the death of Jesus.
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- Matthew 27:25 Then answered all the people, and said,
His blood be on us, and on our children.
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- The bible is true, or the bible is a lie, we can't have
it both ways! If the bible doesn't say what it has written, then obviously
the crucifixion was a hoax too. If the Jews wish to call God a liar, that
is their business, but yours truly will have no part of it. I said if Mel
condescended and removed even one credit from the film I wouldn't go see
it. Good luck Mel, but count me out! Seems Satan has won again. Where is
God's church?
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- Jerry L. Gardner
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