Here's yet another take (it's astounding how many there seem to be) on the 'Passion' thing. This one adopts a pseudo-scholarly historical and theologically insensitive approach in generally blaming (I think) the codifiers of the New Testament for deliberately instigating antisemitism through the ages. Does that mean he's got it all wrong? Not necessarily, but he paints with an awfully broad and careless, even inflamatory, brush. Kind of makes you wonder . . .
And then there's this: Charles Patterson, the author, also penned this piece of work, which served as the foundation for PETA's utterly offensive "Holocaust on your plate," campaign last year about this time. So now we sort of know where this guy is coming from. It's hard to tell whether Patterson ultimately elects to assign primary blame for the Holocaust to the Gospels, Paul or the "unethical treatment of animals." Do we really care?
