To call Rabbi Boteach a Christian hater is absurd. He has worked with evangelical Christians for a long time and continues to do so.
His call to boycott Gibson’s films (a stand I vehemently disagreed with) was not predicated on hate of Christians, as you imply.
Boteach was outraged that Gibson trivialized the Holocaust. In an interview with Peggy Noona, he said “Yes of course. Atrocities happened. War is horrible. The Second World War killed tens of millions of people. Some of them were Jews in concentration camps. Many people lost their lives. In the Ukraine several million starved to death between 1932 and 1933. During the last century 20 million people died in the Soviet Union.”
Boteach went on to say, “I once greatly admired Mel Gibson not only as a quality actor but as a quality human being. He was one of the few Hollywood celebrities who seemed devoted to his wife and family, and as a father of seven I had great admiration for another father of seven who saw the blessing, rather than the burden, of having lots of kids. As a religious man, I was greatly inspired by his commitment to his Catholicism. But all that is behind me now. Because whether Mel hit his head against a rock or just decided to follow in the footsteps of his Holocaust-denying, anti-Semitic father, the Mel Gibson that first charmed us as an innocent-looking Australian soldier in Gallipoli seems gone forever.”
Disagreeing Boteach’s views on the Passion is not a license to misrepresent what he said or to misrepresent his views towards Christians.
Other religions have a tendency to do just that.
Christians do not.
Know what I mean? Sure you do.
