I get the feeling that James Carroll, the former priest who narrates this interesting film, was part of the far left "Liberation Theology" movement of the Catholic Church that took hold in the 1970's until John Paul II put the Kaybosh on it.
He attempts to reconcile the underlying anti-semitism in Christianity with a modern, sensible position that it's wrong.
Very noble, but it has a problem.
If you are a Christian, you think Jesus was the Messiah. If you are a Jew, you don't believe he was. those are two completely irreconcilable positions. ( I personally do not have a dog or a God in that fight.) Carroll points out that at one point, the numbers of Jews and Christians were equal, but today there are 2 billion Christians and only 15 million Jews.
Oh, and Reverand Haggard. Why does every "expose" of Evagelicalism need to shoehorn Haggard in there? Oh, because he was caught with a male prostitute and a pile of meth, that's why. No one heard of this fool before that.
He attempts to reconcile the underlying anti-semitism in Christianity with a modern, sensible position that it's wrong.
Very noble, but it has a problem.
If you are a Christian, you think Jesus was the Messiah. If you are a Jew, you don't believe he was. those are two completely irreconcilable positions. ( I personally do not have a dog or a God in that fight.) Carroll points out that at one point, the numbers of Jews and Christians were equal, but today there are 2 billion Christians and only 15 million Jews.
Oh, and Reverand Haggard. Why does every "expose" of Evagelicalism need to shoehorn Haggard in there? Oh, because he was caught with a male prostitute and a pile of meth, that's why. No one heard of this fool before that.