At 01:06 PM 29/12/2004, MichaelK. wrote:
It is not so easy to change a millenniums-formatted mentality of believers, where "The Passion of Christ" vision rather than historical realms being even highlighted by the Pope recently, is the most.
Yes Michael, but all of Mel Gibson's other "historical" movies have been historically inaccurate and bear, in some cases, only a general and vague resemblance to reality. Both "Braveheart" and "The Patriot" are riddled with anachronisms and inaccuracies which he uses for dramatic effect. But as history they are ludicrous. In Passion, Gibson is talking about a Catholic vision of Christ and the Jews which the Catholic Church gave up at Vatican II (1962-65) when the Catholic Church brought itself, partially at least, into the Twentieth Century. Before Vatican II was still Catholic dogma that the Jews were forever condemned because they had killed Christ (funny, if the idea is that Christ died to redeem Christians then surely those who killed him are part of God's plan and are to be blessed). Mel Gibson, as I understand it, does not accept Vatican II. .
Garth Cartledge
" Despotism sits nowhere so secure as under the effigy and ensigns of Freedom", From Imaginary Conversations of Greeks and Romans (1853) by Walter Savage Landor 1775-1864
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