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Feb. 21st, 2004 12:24 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
taratemimaHey icdedpeople, you might like this essay:
"The best hope to avoid a new surge of anti-Semitism will not come only from de-coding the anti-Semitic themes in Mel Gibson's film, or the Gospel on which it was based, but rather by re-crediting the ancient Jewish vision of Jesus—that in place of the Old Bottom Line of money and power, a New Bottom Line of Love and Generosity is possible. People of all faiths need to shape a political and social movement that reaffirms the most generous, peace-oriented, social justice-committed, and loving truths of the spiritual heritage of the human race. It is only this resurrection of hope that can save us from a new wave of global hatred."
I think, whatever disagreements I have with his views, Rabbi Lerner gets the general spirit of what you've been talking about in your posts about the movie than Mel Gibson. Yes, there is a capacity to be cruel, to be unthinking and unfeeling. But there is another that seeks to do justice, mercy and other old-fashioned concepts.
I am surprised I posted less about The Passion than I expect myself to. I was raised Catholic, I am familiar with the contentious history of the Catholic Church and the really, really nasty bits in the Christian Bible used to justify anti-Semitism (or why Tara gets pissed when people like Paul Weyrich get a pass from the right but other brands of bigots (perferably black or Arab) do not). I stopped considering myself a Catholic because the more I learn, the less sure I am of the main narrative (resurrection and the Trinity, specifically).
I guess I just coasted on being amused by![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
jmhm and her bulletins (edit: archived here). At this point, I can expect Gibson to go around in the streets with a big cross, lioncloth and all.
"The best hope to avoid a new surge of anti-Semitism will not come only from de-coding the anti-Semitic themes in Mel Gibson's film, or the Gospel on which it was based, but rather by re-crediting the ancient Jewish vision of Jesus—that in place of the Old Bottom Line of money and power, a New Bottom Line of Love and Generosity is possible. People of all faiths need to shape a political and social movement that reaffirms the most generous, peace-oriented, social justice-committed, and loving truths of the spiritual heritage of the human race. It is only this resurrection of hope that can save us from a new wave of global hatred."
I think, whatever disagreements I have with his views, Rabbi Lerner gets the general spirit of what you've been talking about in your posts about the movie than Mel Gibson. Yes, there is a capacity to be cruel, to be unthinking and unfeeling. But there is another that seeks to do justice, mercy and other old-fashioned concepts.
I am surprised I posted less about The Passion than I expect myself to. I was raised Catholic, I am familiar with the contentious history of the Catholic Church and the really, really nasty bits in the Christian Bible used to justify anti-Semitism (or why Tara gets pissed when people like Paul Weyrich get a pass from the right but other brands of bigots (perferably black or Arab) do not). I stopped considering myself a Catholic because the more I learn, the less sure I am of the main narrative (resurrection and the Trinity, specifically).
I guess I just coasted on being amused by
jmhm and her bulletins (edit: archived here). At this point, I can expect Gibson to go around in the streets with a big cross, lioncloth and all.
