The Passion of the Delusional

I know most people probably think Gibson is just loony toons, and that he is irrelevant.. but I'm completely fascinated by this story and what people are saying now - and what they said back when The Passion was released.

The internets tubes records all, and it's oh so much fun to beat people over the head with their own writing.

I think this is important. From the Catholic League;

Surely it is now time to analyze the vitriolic loathing demonstrated by various Jewish groups and their leaders toward Mel Gibson over the past six months. This analysis might help forestall some similar ill-conceived and ill-fated future misadventure on the part of self-anointed Jewish leadership. At the very least it might advance human understanding of destructive group pathologies.

As the whole world knows by now, Mel Gibson, his movie, his father, his church and anything else even remotely associated with Mr. Gibson have been smeared as anti-Semitic. From the immoderate assaults, you might have thought that the target was a thug with a lengthy rap sheet for murdering Jews while yelling "Heil Hitler." From the intensity of the rhetoric you would have thought that from his youth, Gibson had been hurling bricks through synagogue windows. Yet until "The Passion," he was a highly regarded and successful entertainer who went about his business largely ignored by the Jewish community, so why now do they hate him so?

Once Mel Gibson revealed himself to be, like the President, a person of serious religious faith the gloves came off. Mel Gibson has done a major favor for serious faith, both Jewish and Christian, in America. He has made it 'cool' to be religious, but in so doing he has unleashed the hatred of secular America against himself personally, against his work, and against his family. God bless him.

And who was right? Once again - secular America nailed Gibson to the cross even before he nailed himself. What seems so obvious to me must be so unimaginable to those who refuse to see what is plainly right before them.

But, this is important because it is true that Gibson did help make being freaky Christian "cool". Legions of testosterone filled violent young men who wanked to images of Gibson as Mad Max found a new direction from a glorious new leader.



Now, this might sound trite, but if you've seen The Passion of the Jew - the images of Cartman bowing down to the poster of Gibson in Braveheart costume is the perfect analogy to the countless Christians throwing their rational minds in the trash to embrace this cool new Christian orthodoxy. Parker and Stone even had Cartman, in brown shirt, leading the Christians through the town Nazi style. Those Christians simply thought they were following for Christ, but as has become evident in "the real world", those that they follow have other motives and agendas.

And I just don't know how to get through to people that this is not the exception. This is the rule.

Christopher Hitchens (and he's a conservative to boot) wrote then;

Apparently seeking to curry favor, Gibson announced a few weeks ago that he had cut the scene where a Jewish mob yells for the blood of Jesus to descend on the heads of its children (a scene that occurs in only one of the four contradictory Gospels). Gibson lied. The scene is still there, spoken in Aramaic. Only the English subtitle has been removed. Propagandists in other countries will be able to subtitle it any way they like. This is all of a piece with the general moral squalor of his project. Gibson's producer lied when he said that a pope Gibson despises had endorsed the film. He would not show the movie to anyone who might object in advance. He will not debate any of his critics, and he relies on star-stricken pulp interviewers to feed him soft questions. Now, as the dollars begin to flow from this front-loaded fruit-machine of cynical publicity, he is sobbing about the risks and sacrifices he has made for the Lord. A coward, a bully, a bigmouth, and a queer-basher. Yes, we have been here before. The word is fascism, in case you are wondering, and we don't have to sit through that movie again.

And again, this is important because of what we've seen happen to the culture of America. This is no longer the country I grew up in - and the resulting death and destruction is what happens when these crazy people run the show. I'm not kidding - we've seen it time and again that they are quite literally out of their minds.

I've come to realize the kool-aid crowd will never change their point of view, but for anyone to have much of a chance to survive the next 100 years, we have to make religion "not cool". I nearly wrote that we need an "anti-Gibson", but I'm sure that would sound like an invitation to the "anti-Christ", but what I'm really saying is that we need a "cool" spokesman for reason, and not delusion.

Still, it all goes back to the ages old problem of intellectuals and secularists being rather apathetic. The crazy people are much more inclined to take action. Our side has no real interest in trying to convert the heathens. I can understand that. Most people are intellectual heathens for a reason, and there's nothing much that can be done to resolve that. It's a hell of a lot easier to get them to flog for Jesus instead.

Who was right? The secularists.. as usual.



Ugh.. example of why this matters, here:

John Morris, president of the Institute for Creation Research in San Diego, an organization that promotes creationism, said the museum will affirm the doubts many people have about science, namely the notion that man evolved from lower forms of life.

"Americans just aren't gullible enough to believe that they came from a fish," he said.

h/t to Sully for the quotes;