The Jews and Christ and Ken Hutcherson
Goldy—or I should say GOLD STEEEEN—over at HorsesAss, has a screed about this infamous Ken Hutcherson quote from a radio interview the Eastside Evangelical pastor did with the Australian Broadcast Corporation back in February of 2004. Hutcherson was talking about Mel Gibson’s The Passion of the Christ.
“I think it’s going to be controversial to those believers who don’t want to admit the suffering that Christ had to go through to pay for our sins. I think it’s going to be controversial to the whole view of the Jewish nation. The truth is that they did push to have Christ crucified. That’s just plain truth… that’s Biblical truth.”
I remember hearing this sort of sorry tripe when I was being raised Catholic in the 1960s. It also reminds me of something Lenny Bruce once said: if Jesus had been killed just a few years ago, the Christians would be walking around with tiny electric chairs around their necks.