[CTRL] "Correct" - ing Easter

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A coupla lead-ins to articles at the Times (UK)

In Italy

http://www.sunday-times.co.uk/news/pages/tim/2000/04/15/timfgneur02002.html

> April 15 2000
> EUROPE
>
>
> Passion raised by anti-Semitic script
> FROM RICHARD OWEN IN ROME
> A CONTROVERSY
> has broken out over the revival of a long-neglected Roman Catholic Easter
> Passion which critics have branded "anti-Semitic" because it blames the Jews for
> the crucifixion of Christ.

And in Germany

http://www.sunday-times.co.uk/news/pages/tim/2000/04/15/timfgneur01001.html

> Village plays with role of Jews in crucifixion
> FROM ROGER BOYES IN OBERAMMERGAU
> Play of Suffering Death and Resurrection of Our Lord Jesus Oberammergau, Bavaria
> JESUS has been cutting back on the beer. "I don't want a pot belly when I'm
> naked on the cross," grins Toni Burkhardt, a forester who will depict Christ in
> the Oberammergau passion play that begins next month. Almost the whole village
> takes part in the play, which is held every decade to redeem a promise made to
> the Almighty in 1633: if Oberammergau were spared the plague sweeping the
> mountain villages of Bavaria, then the community would celebrate the crucifixion
> in a massive theatrical spectacle for the rest of time. Half a million people
> will visit Oberammergau, from May to October, to watch the Play of Suffering
> Death and Resurrection of Our Lord Jesus. Tickets have been sold out for two
> years. The cheapest black market ticket is going for about �800. This is Holy
> Year, a year in which the Pope has asked for forgiveness from the Jews, a year
> in which he visited Jerusalem and laid to rest one of the most abiding
> prejudices of rural Roman Catholicism: the legend that the Jews killed Jesus.
> That is the mainspring of traditional church-based anti-Semitism, and for at
> least a century it has been the underlying theme of the Oberammergau play.

>>> These folks seem all too passionate about resurrections ... like who started the whole shebang that allegedly made WW2 into a what at all and why. Unfortunately, it's not as simple as pointing a finger at one man and his cronies and assigning all the blame. The 'passion' has been an issue for more centuries than Kosovaria has been a festering sore and, like picking on Irving or Yahoo!, it's a thinly veiled deflection (read: 'denial') of blame, guilt, complicity, whatever, away from many who would like to think of themselves as the 'innocent bystanders' or the 'collaterally damaged'.

In countries where Fascism flourished and where the word and not much less the ideology have been BANNED, the roots seem to be well intact. Alas! When a concept becomes part of the culture -- as ingrained as religions become -- it must become almost a genetic predisposition. Yahoo! can sell tickets to these events I'll bet! Irving's salvation? A<>E<>R <<<




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