Hutton Gibson ?and/?or Mel

If one is Agnostic, then this shouldn't be an issue. But for the majority of Christians, this movie may or may not be offensive. It all depends on how you interpret the message that Mel wants his viewers to see. Let's wait until some of us have had a chance to see this film and then we'll continue the discussion.
regards,

 

Burrough's has always been underrated as a writer.

I bet you will let out a mean yell after you earn your Th.D. Continued blessings on your studies.

 

Hi Jeff:

Sorry about that. I was writing for some of our self-declared theologians and did not make myself clear. Mel and Hutton Gibson have their own private "Roman Catholic" church. Garden-variety Roman Catholics need not apply. It is separate from the standard issue Roman Catholic denomination. The Gibsons consider the present pope a rotten liberal. Hutton Gibson calls him "Garrulous Karolus the Koran-kisser."

The Latin document "Nostra Aetate" ("In our Times" or "In our Age") is the document issued by the standard-issue Roman Catholic meeting called Vatican II (1962-65), in which that denomination repudiated anti-Semitism--including things in Roman Catholic tradition that were anti-Semitic.

The Gibsons reject Vatican II entirely--and the authority of the current pope. Their breakaway version of Catholicism is ultraconservative, which might not be a bad thing, except that the elder Gibson, who functions as theological grand pooh-bah of his tiny sect, is indisputably a Jew-hater, and infuses that hatred into his private version of the Roman Catholic faith.

I should emphasize that it would be a gross injustice to normal Roman Catholics to call the RC religion anti-Semitic based on now repudiated traditions--just as it would be a gross injustice to call my own Lutheran church anti-Semitic because of horrible, evil statements made by Luther about the Jews 500 years ago--statements now repudiated across the Lutheran spectrum and never at any time doctrinally normative.

Best wishes, Janko

 

NRA

Originally posted by Bill Grover

You are BAD ! LOL

 

Bill and janko, thanks for the info. Very interesting.

I heard that a theater here in Austin is going to do a double feature of "The Passion" and "The Last Temptation." No kidding. Which I particularly appreciate given my Unitarian point of view.

Jeff

"Unitarian! If that's the one true faith, I'll eat my hat!"
-- Homer Simpson