Feedback | 30 August 2003

Comment on The Gospel according to Braveheart by Deal W. Hudson (23/08/2003)

My thanks to Mr. Hudson for a sober and fair review of this forthcoming film. It seems as if certain people at the Anti-Defamation League and in “progressive” Christian circles are so keen to avoid suggestions of “collective guilt” for Christ’s suffering and death that they posit in its stead an equally untenable perpetual and universal innocence for every Jewish person who has ever lived. The Gospels record that certain Jewish leaders incited a mob, and that the procurator acceded to the mob’s wishes. It is reasonable to conclude, if you grant that the story is true, that those individual Jews among the leaders and the mob are morally responsible for what they did, though the Gospel of Matthew ominously records the response of “all the people”: “His blood be on us and on our children.” (Mt. 27:25) As Mr.