I’m sorry I actually found the passion of the Christ to be a disturbing work and without much artistic merit. Gibson made the remarks whether he was inebriated or not. I find the whole of the Passion of the Christ to be harking back to views of Jews as ‘Christ-killers’ By the way if you take issue with the exactness of the phrase anti-Semite (since of course the Arabs are Semitic peoples and you are right it does include many peoples) I will put it simply and say I regard Gibson as anti-Jewish. The movie itself is full of major historical inaccuracies.
Read the Bible. Especially the Gospel of John. It isn’t meant to be against all Jews (Christ and His mother were Jewish), but the truth. Many are called, but few are chosen. Those who rejected Christ rejected Him. Jews reject Him to this day. This is not a reason to hate, but a reason to pray, but it is the truth. They say the person who is the Son of God, who came to this earth and died by our hands, was just a man (and the Talmud says the most hateful things about Jesus and Mary…)
People get in an uproar when the TLM prays for the Jews, but nobody knows about Nittel night.
I’ll tend to take JPII though over Mel or his father, especially Mel’s father who made some foul comments about JPII.
Yes…John Paul II was a Pope. Mel admitted his flaws before and submitted to Rome openly.
Also Gibson bankrolls people who believe Vatican 2 was illegitimate so I tend to find his sincerity as a Catholic questionable to say the least.
He has openly acknowledged JPII as being the Pope several times.
He also gives money to other non-Catholics who are in need (he just doesn’t make a big deal over it):
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mel_Gibson#Philanthropy
In fact, I think people are much harder on Mel Gibson for his few flaws than they are on open heretics.
Mel Gibson in a state of inebriation makes negative remarks about Jews and he is condemned. An entire religion calls the most sacred person in the world the most awful things, and they are ignored (incidently, they are the same people about whom Mel made those remarks). I’d prefer Mel’s flaws over open heresy.
I don’t see him as a great moviemaker by any means.
I never said he was, and that has nothing to do with him.