Mel Gibson Did It Again!

foxnews ^ | Thursday , October 19, 2006 | Father Jonathan Morris

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Never before had I made an intercontinental flight to see a movie. But that's what I did this month when I accepted Mel Gibson's invitation to preview and critique his new film “Apocalypto,” scheduled to appear in theaters on December 8th.

I didn't make the trek across the ocean for entertainment value. My work as a consultant on and off the set of Gibson's “Passion of the Christ,” gave me a new appreciation of the power of well-made, serious, and widely-distributed movies. They influence culture. They affect the way we think about the story they tell. Sometimes they warp our view of history or of humanity. Other times they inform, inspire, and challenge. But they always leave a mark.

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Ah! Speculation and theory. Let's take history a few steps back before the drunken rant.

Jealousy is a deadly sin. Jealousy influenced Cain to kill Abel.

Hollywood has long been jealous of Mel Gibson WAAAAAAAYYY before "The Passion of Christ". There was a tremendous rumor ground swell among the anti-Mel crowd and it grew much worse as Mel's spiritual life improved. He had been very much the playboy during his youth, but family life seem to have cured a lot of that.

Anybody care to wonder how the diabolic think? Let's try a Screwtape twist:

"Hmmmm, what can be done to recruit or destroy this young upstart who is now poised to directing. My my, he's got the talent it takes to change the face of the movie industry. Gasp! He's not turning! He's even BUILDING CHURCHES! This will be like "Angels with Dirty Faces", or "The Bells of St Mary", or "It's a Wonderful Life" all over again! &*%#^ why can't souls just crave the sin we advertise! MANKIND MUST NOT BE ALLOWED TO HOPE, AND THIS RISING FAMILY MAN IS STYMING OUR EFFORTS TO SELL SIN!!! AH! The solution! Mel's old man is a few sandwiches short of a picnic. His father "hates Jews". The father hands the son a scorpion or asp instead of a fish or egg. We'll accuse the son of an unsubstantiated crime. We'll repeat it over and over. We'll print news about his father and his Jew-hating son until the public parrot it unconsciously. We'll take it from the tabloids and put it into cartoons. Then when the family is attacked too much, he'll slip and finally show a soul's frustration in combating jealousy. Hell! He may even become a Jew-hater because take a freakin' wild guess as to were all the attacks are coming from "(author's note, it comes from the devil--not Jews).

The present Mel vs. Hollywood has nothing to do with righteous and traditional Judaism. The attack has to do with telling the story of human and Divine suffering and the redemption that the Divine offers.

I laugh at all of this. I know, but only in a small fraction, of what Mel suffers. I am Pro-Life. I remain Pro-Life in the most coolest of human respected crowds whether they're liberal or conservative. I've been surrounded by US Marine officers, all of them professing to be Catholics who have even put the Holy Eucharist into themselves, telling me, mocking me, driving me emotionally to defend abortion as a "woman's right to choose" as if that's the American way. Cannibalism in Mayan civilization? We have it today in America being defended by our own in the most "honored" of human institutions. I resisted the foul attempts of "friends" betrayal. The Marine Corps was not filled with the holiness I was hoping for. It was only filled with men and fewer women.

My resistance didn't take a hard heart and murder. I, instead, prayed for my brothers and nailed it to the Cross. I buy Catholic Mass cards for those who persecute me. Now, it's in Jesus' pierced hands. The argument is between Satan and God. I'll maintain my prayers and praise to and for God. Let Satan stew in his own vomit. My brothers and sisters have the chance to regret abortion's diabolic politics, and they can Reconcile with Truth--Satan does not.