Give the guy a break. Wouldn't you be upset if the Jews had crucified one of your best friends?
You have GOT to be kidding, right?
You and Mel are real buds, it appears.
Right down to the blood libel.
We all crucified Christ by being sinners.
If the Romans hadn't hadn't crucified my friend at the instigation of the Jews, those of us who are Christian wouldn't have a religion. So anyone who hates Jews for that isn't thinking it through.
And just in case it gets read that way, hating Jews just because they are Jews shows one isn't thinking their religion through too.
LOL!
Jesus was a Jew, baby doll.
I hope that was sarcasm. That has to be one of the most "over the top" statements I've ever seen. It's really unbelievable that you would even think that, let alone type it.
I believe that crucifixion was a ROMAN punishment.
I justify my own "outing " of Catholic bishops (apostles),who are liars with respect to adherence to Catholic teaching. I believe that anyone who identifies with a religion but is actually an impostor is a liar and a danger to the Church and to society and should be exposed. It makes for confusion and ultimately chaos,so I do everything in my power,limited as it is to,point out words and actions that are not in concert with Catholic dogma,doctrine and discipline.
Therefore,if I were a religious,orthodox Jew and knew that persons who didn't even believe in God were trading on their Jewishness to protect them in endeavors that were contrary to the Law and hurtful to society,I would be very angry that they were using my God and my people to cover nefarious operations,I would do anything possible to separate those liars from the body of believers.
In light of the preceding I respond to your question,which was:Wouldn't you be upset if the Jews had crucified one of your best friends? No,I would not be upset with the Jews that had called for punishment for Christ over 2000 years ago and I don't think that is what Mel is upset with either. I would imagine that he has developed an animus to those many Jews,who are not and that take advantage of the empathy and regret rightfully bestowed on those believing Jews,who suffered during the Shoah and cover all sorts of ugly machinations under the cloak of their "jewishness".
I believe that those are the ones who battled him at every step along the way as he tried to produce and distribute his movie (The Passion). Those men have always been with us and have usually hurt the societies they lived among.
I would bet that currently he is trying to get "Apocalypto" publicized and distributed and is running into the same problem from many of the same people,who I would label "secular pagans" but frequently hide as Jews.
I haven't read about the movie but I have to assume he is making a comparison between the Mayans,who sacrificed babies with Western Civilization's sanctioning of abortion. I imagine they probably had some pretty interesting,opprobrious sexual rituals too. So I'm betting that he is meeting the same kind of duplicitous resistance that he experienced with his very different type of movie "The Passion". He is probably aware that the same group screaming about "The Passion" for it's religious message is now resisting a movie that is not religious in the accepted sense but does touch on behaviors are destructive to religion and civilization. I bet he is stymied and blocked at every turn and was probably reflecting utter disgust with the system,so to speak.
I would also bet that Mel Gibson is dam mad at the squelching and choking off of the "freedom" to compete or dialog in the market place,thus severing every man from ideas,history,philosophy and information that might thwart the plans of evil men to assume the position of Almighty God.
When one has to stuff and stuff their own feelings and thoughts in order to comply with political correctness it often ends in outbursts that don't appear to be totally rational. This is why many non liberals hate the devastation of Gaza and Lebanon,it will just breed irrational terrorism (irrational,brutal,ugly) all over the world.
Maybe in the long run Mel's indiscretions will wake up more Americans,who once awake,may start pursuing facts,truth and reality. That would be good.
Jesus gave his life willingly - the Jews did NOT take it!