He sounds like Hillary Clinton.
WTH???????????? Hello? Ron??? Talk much???????????
Loosers on the lose!
I didn't get too worked up about the content of the film. It is only a work of fiction afterall. But this comment by McKellan, and all to make him feel better about living a sinful lifestyle i.e. homosexuality, is offensive and rank, so I will NOT be seeing this movie or any other film starring this Euro trash jerk. Not to mention, the reviews of DaVinci have been abysmal. I hope this thing crashes and burns. But I doubt it will. The same idiots who bitch about high gas prices will have no problem paying $10 a ticket plus another $20 for snacks to see a really poor film.
I'm shocked.
Shocked that we didn't even get one "I'm proud to be gay." from McKellan. That guy is usually good for 20-30 "I'm proud to be gay"-s an hour.
Who cares what actors think about anything?
The sodomites generally have a problem with the Holy Bible. Must be those pesky passages about a man lying with another man being an abomination.
Isn't Tom Hanks supposed to be a Catholic? How's he square that with the movie, and how come Lauer didn't ask him?
Agh, it's a puff interview for another forgettable flick.
Just as long as no Korans hit the toilet on the set!
"Whenever I stay in a hotel I always check to see if they have a Gideon Bible, and if they do I tear out a page," the veteran actor told New York gossipist Baird Jones at the premiere party for the film "Iris," which stars both Kate Winslet and Judy Dench as the late writer Iris Murdoch. "I turn to Leviticus 18:22 and rip out that page which is directed against homosexuals; it is one of the Leviticus Laws. I don't know if anyone ever even notices, but I really take exception to that section and I think by now I must have ripped out a few hundred pages."Vandalism-shmandalism, the way McKellen sees it, he's doing it for the good of humanity.
"Who knows? There might be someone who has insomnia who stays awake all night who reads the Bible because they have nothing else to do and who might be especially vulnerable to what I really think is Leviticus' pornography," he says, "so I just remove it."
But it's not a totally selfless act. "Helps me to get to sleep better," he says. "I'll say that much."
Typical modernist Scripture scholarship is not objective or neutral historical and textual scholarship. It is eisegesis (reading into) rather than exegesis (reading out of); it reads a particular modern worldview - naturalism, denial of the supernatural and miracles - into the texts, and judges the texts on the basis of that worldview.
If Christ survived the Crucifixion he did not die for our sins and therefore was not resurrected. Tom's looking like, 'what?'"
Yeah, Tom Hanks and a lot of FReepers who think it is a lot to do about nothing.
1 Corinthians 15:13 But if there be no resurrection of the dead, then is Christ not risen:
14 And if Christ be not risen, then is our preaching vain, and your faith is also vain.
15 Yea, and we are found false witnesses of God; because we have testified of God that he raised up Christ: whom he raised not up, if so be that the dead rise not.
16 For if the dead rise not, then is not Christ raised:
17 And if Christ be not raised, your faith is vain; ye are yet in your sins.
18 Then they also which are fallen asleep in Christ are perished.
19 If in this life only we have hope in Christ, we are of all men most miserable.
No big deal, all this movie means is that with no validation of Christ's resurrection, there is no possibility of us any of us being redeemed from sin. No big deal...only to an unbeliever and to an atheist.
The guy defeated a Balrog in hand to hand combat, so give him some leeway for heavens sake
Someone connected to the move said something stupid! Quick, more publicity!!
WOW! A Theological actor.(An acting Theologian?)
Ah, so there is a disclaimer. Does it also cover Opus Dei, I wonder?
Lauer: "Is, is this a case where if people's faith is shaken by this movie the faith probably wasn't strong enough to begin with?"
McKellen: "There ya go."
Lauer: "Is that how you look at it?"
Molina: "Yeah."