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Archae

(46,327 posts)
Wed Oct 1, 2014, 11:49 AM Oct 2014

Kevin Sorbo says we "Don't get his joke about Jews"

No wonder the only work he can get is Grade-Z movies nowadays.

Kevin Sorbo Is Sorry All You 'Haters' Didn't Get His 'The Jews Killed Jesus' Joke

Submitted by Kyle Mantyla on Wednesday, 10/1/2014 11:18 am

Last month, Kevin Sorbo was making the rounds promoting the DVD release of his film "God's Not Dead" when he set off a bit of controversy by declaring that the Jews were responsible for killing Jesus. Sorbo was discussing Jewish concerns that Mel Gibson's "Passion of the Christ" was anti-Semitic; concerns which he entirely dismissed because, as he said, "News bulletin: you did kill Jesus!" Those comments generated a bit of controversy, to which Sorbo initially responded by blaming everyone else for not being "enlightened" enough to understand the point he was supposedly making:

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Johonny

(20,841 posts)
5. Given the man had mutilple strokes-I'll give him a pass
Wed Oct 1, 2014, 12:12 PM
Oct 2014

Brain injuries can lead to odd personality changes.

reflection

(6,286 posts)
13. First thing I thought of as well.
Wed Oct 1, 2014, 12:26 PM
Oct 2014

He had a bunch of strokes while filming those crappy Hercules movies, I heard. It may be that he is not the same. Then again, I don't know the guy from Adam, so whatever.

JHB

(37,160 posts)
17. I'll give him a pass if he comes out and says that those strokes...
Wed Oct 1, 2014, 12:48 PM
Oct 2014

...have done some damage and admits that sometimes he comes out with stupid shit.

Until then he's indistinguishable from any other jeering asshole.

Initech

(100,068 posts)
6. Kevin Sorbo is proving to be more and more of an asshole every time he says something.
Wed Oct 1, 2014, 12:14 PM
Oct 2014

I bet that the producers of "God's Not Dead" probably cringe every time he goes on the radio.

JHB

(37,160 posts)
10. Once again, my inventory of rat's asses is undiminished
Wed Oct 1, 2014, 12:23 PM
Oct 2014

Feel no inclination to give one for Sorbo

Dawson Leery

(19,348 posts)
15. When fundamentalist Christians make jokes about Jewish people,
Wed Oct 1, 2014, 12:44 PM
Oct 2014

the "humor" is but an expression of their anti-semetism.

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