R_> Hi, Thurston.  Hope you're well.

I have been worse at times, thank you.

R_>In a message dated 7/22/03 4:40:21 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
R_>R_CATHOLIC{at}f100.n379.z1.fidonet.org writes:
R_>>
R_>> TA> Alex Beam's article, "Is Mel Gibson's Film Passion For Jesus
R_>> Misplaced" was certainly misplaced in the Living&Arts section
R_>> of today's Boston Globe. It reads more like an Editorial page
R_>> item than a news article too big to be repeated here; as one
R_>> can see by pointing ones favorite internet browser to:
R_>>
R_> Ha!  I read that column myself.  And clipped it from the
R_> GLOBE for easier use writing a response to Mr. Beam.
R_> Hope you saw my e mail to Beam and the material I
R_> attached to it about the spurious "Jesus Seminar."
R_>>
R_>> TA> I found it interesting that Gibson's family are cited as members
R_>> of a super traditionist brand of Catholicism. His father was quoted
R_>> stating "that the reformist Vatican II Council was a Masonic plot
R_>> backed by the Jews". I wonder if this traditionist group similar to
R_>> the Bible thumping Protestant radical groups one generaly finds south
R_>> ofthe Mason-Dixon line?
R_>>
R_> Two possibilities comes to mind: 1.) Alex Beam is a hard
R_> line "liberal" slamming orthodox Catholics with any con-
R_> venient devil words available; or 2.) Gibson's father may
R_> indeed belong to an equally hard line group of schismatic
R_> "Catholics."

R_> If I may judge from his column, Beam does seem to be a
R_> "liberal" Catholic.  Anyone who LIKES the "Jesus Seminar"
R_> is suspect to me!

R_>TA>> The film certainly will be an interesting movie to be seen some
R_>> hot, muggy sleepless night there isn't any thing better to do.
R_>>
R_> What actually makes me dubious about Mel Gibson's
R_> film was finding out the dialogue will be ENTIRELY in
R_> Aramaic, Greek, and Latin.  That would seem to limit
R_> the audience to a select, rarefied group of scholars.

We will have to be sure to wear our bifocals so we can
read the English text lines at the bottom of the frames
and make notes at the same time.

Ciao, Ack.
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