So far I haven’t been able to find a transcript of Mel Gibson’s interview with ABC that aired last night. Plenty of people have been visiting my site looking for it. If anyone saw it post a comment and let us know what you thought.
Some comments that Gibson has made recently are drawing renewed concern over his intentions in making the movie. Here are a few examples of his view on the Second Vatican Council and his Christian beliefs.
"[Vatican II] corrupted the institution of the church. Look at the main fruits: dwindling numbers and pedophilia." - Time, January 27, 2003"[Scholars] always dick around with [the Gospels], you know? Judas is always some kind of friend of some freedom fighter named Barabbas, you know what I mean? It's horseshit. It's revisionist bullshit. And that's what these academics are into. They gave me notes on a stolen script. I couldn't believe it. It was like they were more or less saying I have no right to interpret the Gospels myself, because I don't have a bunch of letters after my name. But they are for children, these Gospels. They're for children, they're for old people, they're for everybody in between. They're not necessarily for academics. Just get an academic on board if you want to pervert something!"
- The New Yorker, September 15, 2003"There is no salvation for those outside the Church…I believe it."
- The New Yorker, September 15, 2003"Why are they calling her a Nazi? …Because modern secular Judaism wants to blame the Holocaust on the Catholic Church. And it's a lie. And it's revisionism. And they've been working on that one for a while."
- On criticism of Anne Catherine Emmerich, a nineteenth-century nun whose writings influenced his portrayal of Jesus' death. The New Yorker, September 15, 2003"I want to kill him…I want his intestines on a stick. . . . I want to kill his dog."
- On New York Times reporter Frank Rich, who wrote an early article about The Passion of the Christ. The New Yorker, September 15, 2003
You can read more of Mel Gibson In His on Words by clicking here.
