inignoct wrote:
] ryan is the supernicety wrote:
] ] LA Times:
] ]
] ] I am a high school teacher and the daughter of
] ] Holocaust survivors. Monday morning, Period 1, a student,
] ] age 17, comes into my room. She asks me if I had seen the
] ] film "The Passion."
] ]
] ] I answer, "No."
] ]
] ] She continues, "It was so sad. I cried so much. I
] ] hate the Jews."
] ]
] ] Very, very sadly, that tells the whole story, Mr.
] ] Gibson.
] ]
] ] Anna Paikow
] ] Los Angeles
]
] *sigh*
]
] [ And i'll bet that fool calls hereself a christian too. Hint
] for the high-school chick -- Jesus wasn't so much into hate...
] if you want to hate people, you lose the right to call
] yourself a follower of Christ. End of Story. -k]

You're right. But she's just a kid. And kids do stupid things. Hell knows I did. The point is that someday, maybe she'll become enlightened. It was this teacher's chance to impart some of that enlightenment at that moment. Tactfully. Wisely. With compassion.

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