“While few are responding to *The Passion* with the same intensity that *New York Times* columnist Frank Rich did a week ago—for starters, Rich titled his harangue “[Mel Gibson Forgives Us for His Sins](https://www.nytimes.com/2004/03/07/movies/mel-gibson-forgives-us-for-his-sins.html)”—it’s fair to say that, recently, the American public finds itself thinking more deeply about the tensions that ca”
