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...believe it’s anti-Jewish,” Aitken explains. “Gibson picks up on the rhetoric of contention in the gospels—the reification of Jewish and Christian communities— and heightens it to an incredible extent...
...Aitken adds that Jews are polarized into either members of a blood-thirsting mob or true, redeemed believers. She also believes women are grossly misrepresented, as devil figures or as supplicants, despite the biblical presence of independent females...
...Clearly, Aitken notes, the film clearly taps into a renewed and burgeoning interest in religion. But Aitken hopes that viewers understand Gibson’s subjectivity. Despite the lambasting the film has received for its incendiary qualities, it has raised enormous dialogue about religious issues, and even latent American anti-Semitism...
...Aitken admits that the dialogue created in the press and around the water coolers nationwide has been “full of sound scriptural and religious education.” Yet, Aitken and some of her Harvard Divinity School colleagues question the effect the film may have. Cox says, “The Passion not only has a questionable and destructive view of Jews, it fundamentally distorts the Christian message as well...
...Holocaust a good thing because it opened up dialogue about anti-Semitism? Is the abuse of women a good thing because it brings to consciousness gender inequalities in our society? Absolutely not,” says Aitken...