By William Jones 1

Cecil B. DeMille’s The King of Kings (1927)

As the opening date for the release of director Mel Gibson’s film The Passion of the Christ approached in 2004, media-orchestrated anti-Christian hysteria reached a crescendo, Jewry sputtered with rage and clamored for censorship, and organized Judeo-Christians ran interference for the world’s most privileged, brutal, and censorial ruling group. The US Conference of Catholic...