The refusal of much of the intelligensia to engage in responsible dialogue about this film revealed immense hypocracy and cynicism. The violence is not a legitimate issue. Prime Time television with it crime show obsessions centered on killing children is so much more truly violent as to make public discussions of the cruelty in the Passion of the Christ ridiculous. (From The Passion of the Christ review.

Is it just me, or should someone who tries so hard to sound intelligent and important get a spell-checker? If you're going to use the word "intelligentsia", you should know how to spell it. Ditto hypocrisy. Yet she gets "cynicism" right.

*boggles*