Gibson has ignored his own church and set back Christian-Jewish relations big time. Gibson has taken much of his account of Christ's death from an 19th century nun who claimed to have seen visions of events 1900 years before her time. The devil character is Gibson's personal editorial of who hangs out with the Jews.
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I was just about to make this point.
Also, it was Mel Gibson's own hand that drove the spike. It was a symbolic but very significant gesture. Maybe some of our Jewish friends aren't aware that he did that, or don't understand why.