Dude! Mel Gibson is Daffy
Dude,
Mel Gibson is trying to kill us!!!
Bus driver: Sure... Whatever kid
*Smash*
Gibson: Give me back my $18!!!
Gibson's Anti-Semitic Tirade -- Alleged Cover Up
This one goes into more detail then some of the AP articles... Although I'm sure you've all heard this latest Hollywood gossip at this point.
Gibson enters rehab after DUI arrest
Well it turns out I'm vindicated after years of disliking Mel Gibson. Of course until the revelations of the past couple of years I just thought he was smug, the whole bigot thing didn't really cross my mind.
As it turns out that all of us peeps who had studied a wee bit of theology in college, and learned of the methods in which Gibson had gone beyond even the most anti-Semitic scripture, (Gospel according to John and letters of Paul) Those of us aware that Gibson made a thinly veiled propaganda film that is a quasi-subliminal "The Jews hate Jesus" fest were proven right. Gibson denied his antisemetic tendencies but they've been revealed waving in the wind like a giant red flag.
Antisemitism exists in the bible because of miss-interpretations, because of prejudices seemingly traced to an early Jewish separtist & gospel transcriber named Paul, then Constantine had much material re-written in to make it easier for the Romans to adopt Christianity in light of their hatred of the Jews. Additionally contrary to the belief of many fundamentalists the New Testament does not channel God, and instead were interpretations by several men, influenced by centuries of social and cultural upheaval. If God himself were directing the quills, the spirit in the sky would be really wishy washy, as there are subtle differences between the rehashing of the same story (a.k.a. the gospels)
There were many pieces at the time about where Gibson had taken liberties to enhance the demonizing of the Jewish people but as I am too lazy to provide links at this point, you'll just have to look it up yourself, or disagree with me, as you may.
As I like this topic... and I think it is very very important in this mad mad world (think this holy land craziness... and the Islamic fundamentalists that want to kill off all of the non Muslims & secularists, that and the flawed idea of religious states generally speaking)
Religion isn't bad thing, but when we take literally the words of these moral stories meant to guide us (many of which are terribly out dated), when we believe that there is only one true interpretation of God, I think we are traversing on a slippery and deadly slope. This is the weakness of man. The use of our spiritual insecurities by power hungry zealots stagnates the world in its pursuit of a environment where we may all live in peace... I feel as the big cheese would intend (what ever he, she, or it is). People are too weak to have confidence in what they believe without feeling threatened by everyone else who thinks something contrary. Although truth be told I believe that certain civil rights that contradict traditional edicts of faith should take precedence over scripture or philosophy of any kind---religions ultimately have the same goal, and these painful little nuances are often contradictions to core values of doing "the right thing".
The Origins of Christian Anti-Semitism
An informative paper regarding this topic.
Next: First Council of Nicaea A Roman meeting of early Christian officials that voted on many of the fundamentals of what is now Christian faith. Note the part where it is voted to separate the observation of the crucifixion from the Jewish holiday Passover. The Emperor Constantine : "It was, in the first place, declared improper to follow the custom of the Jews in the celebration of this holy festival, because, their hands having been stained with crime, the minds of these wretched men are necessarily blinded. .... Let us, then, have nothing in common with the Jews, who are our adversaries. .... avoiding all contact with that evil way. ....who, after having compassed the death of the Lord, being out of their minds, are guided not by sound reason, but by an unrestrained passion, wherever their innate madness carries them. .... a people so utterly depraved. ....Therefore, this irregularity must be corrected, in order that we may no more have any thing in common with those parricides and the murderers of our Lord. .... no single point in common with the perjury of the Jews."
If it wasn't just the added demonic transfigurations of Jewish children into demons in "The Passion", the fact that Papa Gibson publishes an anti-semetic newsletter, and Mel fronted an ultra-conservative church with dark ages values (they make some of the Vatican hard line vatican folks look like social liberals) should have been enough to tip off most folks.
I bet some of the hardliners, even in light of this, and even though Gibson aknowledged and, well, sort of apologized for the anti-semetic B.S. he spewed,..... I bet there will be those who will continue to try to say.... "The Passion isn't antisemetic, its the real story of Jesus"... and "They're just trying to make Mel Gibson look bad because he's such a kind and gentle Christian". Awwwwww... And Hitler was just looking out for the everyman too, right? He was also a fan of the letters of Paul, the belief that Jews, not the Romans crucified Jesus, a Jew, and finally that whole "God has a chosen people" thing. Some back woods toothless fundamentalists in our country would say: "And they sure as hell ain't Jew's, Buddhists and homo's...now I's gots to gets back to whittlin mah stick so I can beat some immigrants". I just don't get people... how in today's world? Why? I guess they must feel a bit small.
I guess they just read all of the crappy parts of the bible and ignore Ite good stuff... it must be less important or something. Doesn't have the same sort of fire and brimstone sort of excitement. Its like a love story vs. say.... hmmmmmm Lethal Weapon? Or would Mad Max be more fitting?
Actually I'm not sure what's worse, those who would niavely try to deny Gibson's obvious bigotry, or those soooo smitten with Braveheart that they couldn't possibly frown upon his sorry ass.
Well that's enough ranting about Gibson... hopefully those folks in the Mideast will stop bombing each other, I'm not holding my breath. I'm sure the implications of force will keep those Hezbollah terrorists from acting out just like it has over the past fifty years, oh wait.......
Usually the celebrity crap is pretty insignificant, and as irrelevant in the grander scheme this is, I can't help but think what an amazing parallel it is to all that troubles the world. I suppose If I worked on it I could easily construct a nice essay on how Lindsay Lohan's "little selfish bitch" personality is screwing over the world. (mommy exhibits why Lindsay's a spoiled brat) (pretty on the outside, bitter on poisonousde like a poisnous berry) I'm sure she has no idea what Hezbollah even is and probably couldn't point Lebanon out on a map, but alas it is unfair for me to speak for her.
I think quite simply with every Mother or child that is killed, a new terrorist is born. It would take one hell of a pvengeancet to want vengence, and unfortunately we are short on Ghandi clones now days.
This html has been a pain tonight, the spell check and compose mode has been self destructing after I add things to it and my words end up getting all jumbled up. A bit frustrating... hopefully it reads somewhat legibly. Each time I read it I find that half a sentence has been eliminated! grrrrr...
Dude,
Mel Gibson is trying to kill us!!!
Bus driver: Sure... Whatever kid
*Smash*
Gibson: Give me back my $18!!!
Gibson's Anti-Semitic Tirade -- Alleged Cover Up
This one goes into more detail then some of the AP articles... Although I'm sure you've all heard this latest Hollywood gossip at this point.
Gibson enters rehab after DUI arrest
Well it turns out I'm vindicated after years of disliking Mel Gibson. Of course until the revelations of the past couple of years I just thought he was smug, the whole bigot thing didn't really cross my mind.
As it turns out that all of us peeps who had studied a wee bit of theology in college, and learned of the methods in which Gibson had gone beyond even the most anti-Semitic scripture, (Gospel according to John and letters of Paul) Those of us aware that Gibson made a thinly veiled propaganda film that is a quasi-subliminal "The Jews hate Jesus" fest were proven right. Gibson denied his antisemetic tendencies but they've been revealed waving in the wind like a giant red flag.
Antisemitism exists in the bible because of miss-interpretations, because of prejudices seemingly traced to an early Jewish separtist & gospel transcriber named Paul, then Constantine had much material re-written in to make it easier for the Romans to adopt Christianity in light of their hatred of the Jews. Additionally contrary to the belief of many fundamentalists the New Testament does not channel God, and instead were interpretations by several men, influenced by centuries of social and cultural upheaval. If God himself were directing the quills, the spirit in the sky would be really wishy washy, as there are subtle differences between the rehashing of the same story (a.k.a. the gospels)
There were many pieces at the time about where Gibson had taken liberties to enhance the demonizing of the Jewish people but as I am too lazy to provide links at this point, you'll just have to look it up yourself, or disagree with me, as you may.
As I like this topic... and I think it is very very important in this mad mad world (think this holy land craziness... and the Islamic fundamentalists that want to kill off all of the non Muslims & secularists, that and the flawed idea of religious states generally speaking)
Religion isn't bad thing, but when we take literally the words of these moral stories meant to guide us (many of which are terribly out dated), when we believe that there is only one true interpretation of God, I think we are traversing on a slippery and deadly slope. This is the weakness of man. The use of our spiritual insecurities by power hungry zealots stagnates the world in its pursuit of a environment where we may all live in peace... I feel as the big cheese would intend (what ever he, she, or it is). People are too weak to have confidence in what they believe without feeling threatened by everyone else who thinks something contrary. Although truth be told I believe that certain civil rights that contradict traditional edicts of faith should take precedence over scripture or philosophy of any kind---religions ultimately have the same goal, and these painful little nuances are often contradictions to core values of doing "the right thing".
The Origins of Christian Anti-Semitism
An informative paper regarding this topic.
Next: First Council of Nicaea A Roman meeting of early Christian officials that voted on many of the fundamentals of what is now Christian faith. Note the part where it is voted to separate the observation of the crucifixion from the Jewish holiday Passover. The Emperor Constantine : "It was, in the first place, declared improper to follow the custom of the Jews in the celebration of this holy festival, because, their hands having been stained with crime, the minds of these wretched men are necessarily blinded. .... Let us, then, have nothing in common with the Jews, who are our adversaries. .... avoiding all contact with that evil way. ....who, after having compassed the death of the Lord, being out of their minds, are guided not by sound reason, but by an unrestrained passion, wherever their innate madness carries them. .... a people so utterly depraved. ....Therefore, this irregularity must be corrected, in order that we may no more have any thing in common with those parricides and the murderers of our Lord. .... no single point in common with the perjury of the Jews."
If it wasn't just the added demonic transfigurations of Jewish children into demons in "The Passion", the fact that Papa Gibson publishes an anti-semetic newsletter, and Mel fronted an ultra-conservative church with dark ages values (they make some of the Vatican hard line vatican folks look like social liberals) should have been enough to tip off most folks.
I bet some of the hardliners, even in light of this, and even though Gibson aknowledged and, well, sort of apologized for the anti-semetic B.S. he spewed,..... I bet there will be those who will continue to try to say.... "The Passion isn't antisemetic, its the real story of Jesus"... and "They're just trying to make Mel Gibson look bad because he's such a kind and gentle Christian". Awwwwww... And Hitler was just looking out for the everyman too, right? He was also a fan of the letters of Paul, the belief that Jews, not the Romans crucified Jesus, a Jew, and finally that whole "God has a chosen people" thing. Some back woods toothless fundamentalists in our country would say: "And they sure as hell ain't Jew's, Buddhists and homo's...now I's gots to gets back to whittlin mah stick so I can beat some immigrants". I just don't get people... how in today's world? Why? I guess they must feel a bit small.
I guess they just read all of the crappy parts of the bible and ignore Ite good stuff... it must be less important or something. Doesn't have the same sort of fire and brimstone sort of excitement. Its like a love story vs. say.... hmmmmmm Lethal Weapon? Or would Mad Max be more fitting?
Actually I'm not sure what's worse, those who would niavely try to deny Gibson's obvious bigotry, or those soooo smitten with Braveheart that they couldn't possibly frown upon his sorry ass.
Well that's enough ranting about Gibson... hopefully those folks in the Mideast will stop bombing each other, I'm not holding my breath. I'm sure the implications of force will keep those Hezbollah terrorists from acting out just like it has over the past fifty years, oh wait.......
Usually the celebrity crap is pretty insignificant, and as irrelevant in the grander scheme this is, I can't help but think what an amazing parallel it is to all that troubles the world. I suppose If I worked on it I could easily construct a nice essay on how Lindsay Lohan's "little selfish bitch" personality is screwing over the world. (mommy exhibits why Lindsay's a spoiled brat) (pretty on the outside, bitter on poisonousde like a poisnous berry) I'm sure she has no idea what Hezbollah even is and probably couldn't point Lebanon out on a map, but alas it is unfair for me to speak for her.
I think quite simply with every Mother or child that is killed, a new terrorist is born. It would take one hell of a pvengeancet to want vengence, and unfortunately we are short on Ghandi clones now days.
This html has been a pain tonight, the spell check and compose mode has been self destructing after I add things to it and my words end up getting all jumbled up. A bit frustrating... hopefully it reads somewhat legibly. Each time I read it I find that half a sentence has been eliminated! grrrrr...
