[Americathy]

Do you believe this? Jews strangling Christian babies??????

I have only heard the movie is based on Emmerich's work from the ADL and others, not from Gibson. That mystic was nuts, but even if he incorporated any of her work, nothing of the sort about strangling Christian babies is even remotely suggested in Gibson's movie.

I am really glad I did not pay to support this movie. And irony is that Protestants are supporting it not really caring how extra biblical stuff is in it. And not caring that Mel Gibson thinks all Protestants are going to hell which is not Catholic teaching.

Gibson has never said anything of the sort. He even said something about believing that Jews are going to heaven. Where are you getting this garbage? Don't you think it might make sense to go to the movie to see for yourself?

[DestroytheDemocrats]

"I have only heard the movie is based on Emmerich's work from the ADL and others, not from Gibson. That mystic was nuts,"

From Christianity Today:

"Early in the filming of The Passion, he gave a long interview to Raymond Arroyo on the conservative Catholic network EWTN. ... He also recounted a series of divine coincidences that led him to read the works of Anne Catherine Emmerich, a late-18th, early-19th-century Westphalian nun who had visions of the events of the Passion. Many of the details needed to fill out the Gospel accounts he drew from her book, Dolorous Passion of Our Lord. "

[DestroytheDemocrats]

"nothing of the sort about strangling Christian babies is even remotely suggested in Gibson's movie."

Would you take seriously any person who ever wrote the following: "The soul of the old Jewess Meyr told me on the way that it was true that in former times the Jews, both in our country and elsewhere, had strangled many Christians, principally children, and used their blood for all sort of superstitious and diabolical practices."

I don't care what else she wrote she's a nut and he reads her works.

I still like Mel Gibson but a religious authority he aint. And an authority on the gospels he aint. He seems to be a nice man and I wish him the best and all that. But I think after the dust settles there will be a reapproachment of this movie and a few hangovers from overindulgence in its praises.