Larry Miller piece

Thanks to Jeff Peterson for sending over the link to this funny and poignant take on the Passion hullabaloo by a Jewish actor and humorist in the Weekly Standard



Passions

We're all holding our breath on this one.

by Larry Miller

. . . . JESUS KNEW he had to suffer and die on the cross. He wasn't alone, by the way. Two hundred and fifty thousand other Jews were crucified by the Romans in the same period. (Probably not according to Mel's father, but still . . .) Yet out of all the victims of this astonishing cruelty, Jesus Christ was the only one who rose and became God to two billion people, unless you count Miramax . . . .