Gaffer Tape said:

I don't really see that as a fair comparison because you're confusing people's independent reactions to the intent of the creator of a work. I don't believe that The Bible has a verse where it advocates the murder, persecution, and hatred of Jews. So just because certain people interpret it that way doesn't mean the work itself should be suppressed.

It sounds like the more modern video game scaremonger tactics. Those kids who killed those other kids played Doom, so Doom is to blame, blarrrrggghhh!!!

There's a lot of things the Bible doesn't say that people have used to to justify. Those are questions of theology, not history.

Last I checked no one here is advocating suppressing the Bible. I'm not talking about any of the Biblical authors intentions, nor the intentions of the groups that put it together, or King James' translation teams, or Mel Gibson's father. The intention is irrelevant. I'm talking about fact. This is not a case of confusing correlation with causation.

It is UNDENIABLE FACT FROM THE HISTORIC RECORD THAT ALL SIDES, CHRISTIANS, JEWS, AND SECULAR HISTORIANS, AGREE ON that the Passion Play, and specifically the charge of deicide that many versions of it promote, has been repeatedly used to stir up and promote violence and murder against Jews.

Given that extensive history of bloodshed, to dismiss Jewish 'sensitivity' to this portrayal as somehow on par with videogame 'scaremonging' or German people being embarrassed by Nazis strikes me as either naive or irrational.