Posted on 02/13/2004 6:56:46 AM PST by dead
This story has a very strange source.
I'm listening to the Howard Stern Show. Every Friday, Mike Walker, the national editor of the National Enquirer, comes on and they play The Gossip Game. Walker offers up four stories, with one of them being false and the other three true. The people on the show have to guess the fake story.
Anyway, I thought the following story had to be the fake one, because I couldn't imagine it wouldn't have gotten much more coverage, but I can't find anything else about it. But, according to Mike Walker, it is a true story.
Apparently, Mel Gibson was leaving a television studio where he had just done an interview about "The Passion of The Christ." Outside, he saw a large group of people protesting his presence.
Gibson walked over and attempted to talk to the protestors about the movie, when one of them threw a bucket of blood on him. It was later determined to be lamb's blood.
Even after he was covered in blood, he still attempted to have a discussion with them, but they were just interested in threatening him and screaming at him, so he eventually walked away.
Has anybody else heard about this incident?
It's not hypocrisy. It's the rational working of the Godless mind. The idea of being accountable for my actions to a righteous God is pretty frightening. It's much more fun to think of God as Santa Claus or some impersonal force. I count on Grace more than most people, I think.
They're not offended by sin. They're offended by the idea that there is sin.
Creed Singer Offers Songs To Mel Gibson For 'The Passion'
02.12.2004
Scott Stapp
BEVERLY HILLS, California — People have been saying for years that Scott Stapp likes to write songs for Jesus, and they're right. The Creed singer has put together four songs for Mel Gibson's controversial new movie "The Passion of the Christ."
Walking the red carpet at music mogul Clive Davis' Grammy party on Saturday, Stapp said he's in talks with his label for permission to hand at least one of the tracks over to the actor/director. "Hopefully that goes through. He wants to do it real bad, and I do too," Stapp said.
They'd better hurry — the movie hits theaters February 25. "The Passion of the Christ," co-written and directed by Gibson, has become something of a hot-button topic with theologians for its interpretation of biblical events and has landed its star, Jim Caviezel ("The Thin Red Line," "Frequency"), on the cover of Newsweek.
"It's a controversial film, but you've got to look at it like any other book, like the 'Lord of the Rings,' " Stapp said. "It was made after three books, right? 'The Passion' is just another interpretation of a book."
The thing about Gibson's interpretation that has sparked the most controversy is what some are calling anti-Semitism with regards to its depiction of the Jewish role in the crucifixion. Stapp, who screened it last week, doesn't share those concerns.
"The way that they cut the film and the way that Mel is a brilliant director and a brilliant guy, I think he just told a story and there was no blame on any specific group. It was just the Romans, the Galileans, even his own people. It went all the way around.
"It has moments that make you want to cry," he added. "But, having the spiritual background I came from, the very last shot of the movie empowered me. And that's all I can tease you with."
There are several theatres in Austin...
I'll check it out.
But how you make the leap that that symbolism proves the story false is beyond me. It's asinine logic, in the extreme.
First of all, did it ever occur to you that the protestor could have used lamb's blood specifically to mock its symbolism?
Secondly, maybe he just used lamb's blood because it was what his butcher had on hand when he went shopping for his protest.
It is actually interesting as one of those urban legend things. Sociologically or psychologically it is interesting that such a story is making the rounds.
As I stated, I have my own suspicions about the veracity of the story.
I simply reported what the story was and its source (Mike Walker, Editor of the National Enquirer.)
You were wrong that it was supposed to be joke. It might be inaccurate, but it was reported as an actual event. You were also wrong that I don't know what the blood of the lamb symbolizes in Christianity.
Whenever I present a seder for guests, I still am amazed at this.
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