Gospels provide faulty history

Here in the bible belt, Paul Harvey's commentary on Gibson's film "The Passion" is being widely circulated via email. A fatal flaw in Harvey's pro-Catholic, pro-Christian perspective is found in his assertion below:

"Yes, its producer is a Catholic Christian and thankfully has remained faithful to the Gospel text; if that is no longer acceptable behavior than we are all in trouble. History demands that we remain faithful to the story and Christians have a right to tell it. After all, we believe that it is the greatest story ever told and that its message is for all men and women. The greatest right is the right to hear the truth."

The problem is, of course, that the Gospels themselves grew increasingly anti-Semitic as the years lapsed between the penning of the first and the last of the Gospels. Which is to say that Christians have not "remain[ed] faithful to the story" and the beginnings of this faithlessness or diversion from the truth can be seen in the increasingly anti-Semitic tone of the Gospel of John when compared with the earlier Gospels. The Gospels, thefore, are a poor source of history. The value of Gibson's work is found in that it contributes to the market place of ideas. Its value is not found in that it is either meets history's demands or that it is "the truth."