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Thread #112434   Message #2378935
Posted By: Richard Bridge
02-Jul-08 - 06:56 AM
Thread Name: Was 'Lord of the Dance' anti-semitic?
Subject: RE: Was 'Lord of the Dance' anti-semitic?
What about

"A Jew Sweet Lovely Nancy"?

In case anyone wants to be offended, that was a flippant joke.

I may misremember this, but surely Pontius Pilate (Roman) tried to pass the buck to Herod Antipas who passed the buck back to Pilate, who then offered the assembled Jewish throng the choice of pardoning Jesus or a well-known thief, Barabbas, and the crowd chose to pardon Barabbas, so it was in the end a Jewish decision to execute Jesus, wasn't it? So who were "they" I'm with Bonnie in the interpretation.

Not that I am much bothered, but it seems worth thinking about the facts as set out (if accurately) in the gospels.