[dmz]

I could not agree with you more. Politicizing religion ain't a good idea, and you just don't know whose face it will blow up in.

Repeat after me...It's only a movie....

A movie that will be, what did I read, a 200 million dollar payday for Mel. Sincerely, bully for him. And I am also happy for the folks who have felt cut out of moviegoing due to the wasteland that it often is. Spending that money out is good for America.

It does not however, completely override my deeply ingrained cynicism when I see people making a ton of money on their faith.

That being said, I'll see this one, and just about any other movie he makes. (I have to anyway, my wife nearly swoons at the thought of him).

[MEGoody]

"It does not however, completely override my deeply ingrained cynicism when I see people making a ton of money on their faith."

Seems like everyone thought (and told Mel) that this was going to be a big flop. But Mel made the movie anyway out of a commitment to bring the account of the last 12 hours of the life of Christ to the big screen.

The fact that he is making millions off it is a "happenstance" (a pleasant one I'm sure). No one else had the slightest inkling it would be such a financial success.