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To: E who wrote (30851)2/22/2004 6:06:10 PM
From: MulhollandDrive  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 793846
 
thepassionofthechrist.com

enjoy, e

abcnews.go.com

At "the height of spiritual bankruptcy" more than a decade ago, abusing alcohol and drugs, the actor Mel Gibson said he once contemplated hurling himself out a window.




But instead, he turned to the Bible, which ultimately inspired him to direct his new movie, The Passion of the Christ.

"I think I just hit my knees," Gibson told Diane Sawyer in an exclusive interview on ABCNEWS' Primetime. "I just said, 'Help.' You know? And then, I began to meditate on it, and that's in the Gospel. I read all those again. I remember reading bits of them when I was younger."

"Pain is the precursor to change, which is great," Gibson said. "That's the good news."....



To: E who wrote (30851)2/22/2004 8:00:37 PM
From: redfish  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 793846
 
Ironically what is going to cause a surge in anti-Jewish sentiment is not "The Passion of the Christ," but rather the bleating of those who will take every possible opportunity to cry "anti-semite!" because it is to their benefit to do so.

I certainly never connected the death of Christ to Jews (at least not any Jews that haven't been dead for over 900 years), but the crap directed at Mel Gibson really sticks in my craw, and will not be soon forgotten.