Since so many people are trying to analyze and figure out what is inside Mel Gibson, I'll offer my two cents:
Mel was raised in a family where one parent (his father) was clearly anti-Semitic, as reported in the past, that parent doubts the Holocaust, etc., and a child cannot be exposed to such bigotry during their formative years without being influenced in some way, and that influence can manifest itself in any number of ways.
I think in Mel's case, that he has been (by his own admission) fighting the demon of alcoholism all his life. I think that Mel, like any one of us, has a mixture of good and bad within him. We are all sinners, each and every last one of us, and without the Grace of God, via the Blood of Christ, we are utterly without hope or help.
Mel produced a film ("The Passion of the Christ") which is a powerful evangelical tool which has brought many people to Christ, and he could not have made such a film if his own faith were a facade, I wonder also if his pouring himself into that film project was a way of trying to compensate for the anti-Semitic influence of his father, which he no doubt has been carrying around inside him all his life. After all, it is no secret that Jesus is a Jew.
Mel had too much to drink last week and he got pulled over by the cops. He is smart enough to know, even in a drunken state that such an arrest can be devastating to someone in the public eye, someone who is a Hollywood household name.
He reacted with anger, indignation, embarrassment, with every sort of explosive emotion he possessed.
And the childhood exposure to his father's anti-Semitism came roaring forth. Alcohol is, truth be told - the great uninhibiter.
Now Mel is facing, in the public eye, his own flaws and demons and he knows, oh believe me, he KNOWS that he needs to get help or his life will literally and ultimately be over. He has asked for forgiveness, he wants to somehow make things right, and only an ice-cold soul would suggest that he should be shunned, condemned and forgotten.
Mel needs prayer, and he is my Christian brother. I am compelled to pray for him, and I am.
Oh please, what a sorry bunch of B.S. excuses. It's all in there, right out of the "Hail Mary, Jesus loves you, Alcoholism is a disease" playbook, isnt it? Feel free to pray for him but you're praying for the wrong souls. His timing will probably contribute to more Jewish deaths than ten of those bombs Hezbollah keeps firing. Jesus died on the cross for his turn the other cheek mentality. Gibson's career should, too. Then he can really know what suffering is!
I am also praying for him and encourage all on FR who name the name of Jesus Christ to be praying for him as well.
Add to that that the arresting officer is Jewish, and you can see why he might use Jewish slurs when he was stopped by the police. I still wonder about why he's not a misogynist for calling the female officer "sugar tits".
he could not have made such a film if his own faith were a facade
Exactly. It wasn't just making the film - it was ALL the HATRED he encountered by the Jewish left. But people seem to look at the money he made and NOT on ALL the grief he went through at the hands of the Jewish community.
Let's see how many more nails the liberal Jews will pound on Mel.
Well said.
My sentiments on it pretty well summed up.
You cannot possibly know, of course, how much your post means to me. In recent days -- and not just about the Gibson incident -- there have been too many ice-cold souls on display here on FR. Lately I have seen too much of what it is about the Right that scares many people. So your post gives me hope, and for that I thank you sincerely.
I agree.