And here is how "Vatican II Catholics" do it:
(This picture is just so funny I had to find some excuse to post it.)
And here is how "Vatican II Catholics" do it:
(This picture is just so funny I had to find some excuse to post it.)
Not one to generally shy away from the press, on this occasion, the Oscar-winning director and Hollywood star is not availing himself to the general press here, with the exception of some high-profile television and a few major print outlets. Quite frankly, he says, the film doesn't need it. "I don't like doing press and never have. You put up with it and if you need to do it to help something, then ok, you help make an awareness. But this doesn't NEED it, because it's got its own kind of life, so I don't have to do as much." Gibson says that doing little publicity is a good thing "because I'm an idiot when I open my mouth. I might as well shut up and go away." The director says it's therefore better to be prudent. "Besides, once you go out there, you end up engaging in the nasty kind of editorial name-calling, which I didn't want to do, because that's what this isn't about."
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"In truth, that without the anti-Judaism — much of it anti-Semitism — of the New Testament, or at least in the way the New Testament has been interpreted and taught, there would have been no Nazism, and there would have been no Holocaust. I'm not saying that it was inevitable, but it is a direct outgrowth." — Deborah Lipstadt is a professor of modern Jewish and Holocaust studies at Emory University. She also works with the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum.
The Jews feel that, in Christianity, their core teachings had been perverted and abused.
They read some of the New Testament's insidious attacks against them and wondered how a book claiming divine authorship can be so blatantly anti-Semitic.
Although Christianity stemmed from Jewish origin, it took the concept of the Jewish God and associated it with a man; took the concept of sacrifice and associated it with a human sacrifice.
Christianity took their cherished Torah and said that it had been superseded by a new testament.
And finally, it took the concept of the chosen nation itself, claimed that the Jews had been abandoned by God, and called themselves the new Israel.
Jews reacted in outrage.
He sounded almost Reformed when he said "God is responsible for everything; He makes my bed; He makes our cars..."
When one finally sees God's hand everywhere, there's no turning back.
God chooses His warriors knowing the enemies they face. Gibson will be victorious. All glory to God.