I have a good number of friends who call themselves Catholic, but are not in communion with the Pope of Rome. Some of them are Anglican, some of them Orthodox. (The latter, of course, in communion with the Pope of Alexandria. One of the Popes of Alexandria.) I don't happen to know any Roman Catholic Traditionalists, but I do respect them. For one thing, unlike the Modernists, they stood with the Church against the Iraq war. I particularly respect their breaking off communion in acknowledgment of serious religious disagreement. Something the Modernists lack the decency to do. Modernists who reject the Biblical evidence as offensive to Jews even when it is corroborated by Jewish tradition are such. There is no doubt that the ancient Jewish leadership condemned Jesus because there is no doubt that from the point of view of what is now known as normative Judaism, Jesus deserved it.
So much for religious matters, which I used to teach. I defer to your knowledge of Mr. Gibson, as I don't think I have ever seen a film of his. If I had I might understand why you dislike him so. Hell, I might even dislike him myself -- I am told that my people, the Irish, don't look any too good in Braveheart!
Personally, I am not a Holocaust denier. But if I couldn't take in the idea that such a thing could happen, I might be a better person than I am. Though there are no doubt other and worse reasons motivating many.
It is good that many Christians have dropped their blood libels against the Jews. It will be good when the blood libels against Catholics are similarly forgotten.
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Date: 2003-06-14 03:23 pm (UTC)So much for religious matters, which I used to teach. I defer to your knowledge of Mr. Gibson, as I don't think I have ever seen a film of his. If I had I might understand why you dislike him so. Hell, I might even dislike him myself -- I am told that my people, the Irish, don't look any too good in Braveheart!
Personally, I am not a Holocaust denier. But if I couldn't take in the idea that such a thing could happen, I might be a better person than I am. Though there are no doubt other and worse reasons motivating many.
It is good that many Christians have dropped their blood libels against the Jews. It will be good when the blood libels against Catholics are similarly forgotten.