[Canticle_of_Deborah]

During the filming he had a priest there everyday for Mass, prayers, etc. He and the actor who plays Jesus, Jim C., talked about the spiritual precautions they took and their expectations of attack. In retrospect Mel was right on.

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No doubt about that. Not much of a churchgoer so I was not aware there are "scholars" out there trying to rewrite the Gospels with the help of Abe Foxman and Rabbi Marvin Heir of the Simon Wiesenthal Center of LA. I see the same people quoted over and over as being "experts" in the NT and each one of them works with Hier or Foxman and has done so for years. I am familiar with Roman Catholic socialists. The church does have a history of social justice. But not this. Not a total rejection of what the Gospels say. Dorothy Day and even the Liberation Catholic theologians of the 1960s would not, I believe, go this far.

This evening, Salon has another article attacking Mel. This time, Mel is pictured as Christ. And the scholars quoted? The same ones the ADL and Simon Wiesenthal Center work with and the same ones we see quoted over and over.