You’ll see it, if you already haven’t.

If you think it’s message is anti-semitic, turn off your computer now, you’re too stupid, and dealing with advanced technology is a horribly bad idea for you. Because Jews did bad things in the movie, does not make Jews alive today responsible for them or their actions. If you don’t get that bad people sometimes rise to positions of authority, you aren’t paying attention.

If you’re an atheist, or an agnostic, look at this film as if it’s just about a man. And be humbled that a man would go through that much crap for something he believed. Regardless of your religious heritage, here was a man who believed so firmly in his mission that the took lumps you will cringe to watch.

If you’re a Christian, on the other hand, you will watch the Roman centurions beat Jesus and you will be filled with rage at the callousness with which they torture a helpless Christ. Don’t judge them too harshly, as Jesus himself said, they knew not what they were doing. No, Jesus was killed by you. And me. And all the people you know. The Jews, the centurions, the Romans, they were the instruments of the torture, but the aggressors were the people you see when you open your eyes every day.

Instead of thinking of this qualitiatively, let’s look at some numbers. The human dermis contains something less than a million nerve endings. There have been a few billion Christians since Christ lived. Now, think of you, and a team consisting of a couple thousand of your closest friends, sinning away, each sin an irritation of that nerve ending. And hundreds of thousands of other teams, each with their own nerve ending. Blithely sinning away. Now look at that screen. No, don’t blink. Look at the wounds. Consider yourself lucky that you’re not watching the real thing, the movie probably doesn’t do the beating justice. Ask yourself, which of those wounds contains YOUR nerve ending? which wound is it that you’re resting in, poking away at that raw nerve. Be ashamed. Be humbled. Wipe your eyes. And see if you can’t face tomorrow a little better than you are today.