[gondramB]

>Why do you have a hard time believing that? Mel was, after all, brought up by a dad who (according to his own writings) believes that sort of thing (he's also a holocaust denier).<<

I have a hard time with because he was hit from all sides by the media trying to get his to say something anti-semitic.


>>Mel is probably, normally, a rational guy. He has probably shaken off those beliefs, but stuff that's ingrained in you as a kid, tends to surface when you drink too much.<<

And that's the best argument I've heard on this - I hope you are right. I hate it when somebody who "represents" Christianity comes out as anti-semitic. The bible makes it clear that Jews are a chosen people of God.

[sinkspur]

I hate it when somebody who "represents" Christianity comes out as anti-semitic.

Gibson "represents" neither Christianity nor Catholicism. He's a director who made a movie about The Passion.

That does not make him a spokesman for Jesus.