The Irony Of The Agony
Straight outta Kansas City, reader B.H. weighs in with a thoughtful e-mail on The Passion. Not a bad effort for a Royal's fan:
The elite media completely miss the irony. The tacit assumption is that the unsophisticated rubes that see The Passion will be inflamed with hatred for the Jews. This assumption proves just how secularist and out-of-touch the elite media is. One only need examine the blogosphere for a few minutes to see that
virtually all anti-Semitism today occurs in one of two contexts: (a) Muslim cultures, and (c) left-wing secularist societies (par example: La France).
Methodists in Peoria aren't burning down synagogues; Muslims and left-wingers in Europe are. So I find it extremely condescending when media elites condemn The Passion on the grounds that it will cause the American masses to incite against Jews. In case the NY Times didn't know already, conservative Christians are probably Israel's biggest supporters in this country, and these same unsophisticated rednecks will flock to The Passion.
The Boston Globe might be surprised to know that as a Catholic in Kansas City, I have never heard a fellow parishioner express dread at the growing neo-Conservative movement in Washington, led in many instances by Jews! My parish priest has never warned of the supposed human rights crisis presented by Ariel Sharon's racist policies such as building a fence to stop psychopaths from murdering bus passengers and pizza parlor patrons. As far as I know, these ideas usually find expression in liberal academia, The Nation, etc.
Here is my bold prediction: in the next month, not one significant anti-Semitic act or writing occurs in the heartland by the target audience of this movie. Will the NY Times make the same prediction about the U.N. or the history departments of the Ivy League?
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