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| 2004-02-11 |
| Mel Gibson has come under fire for being hard on Jews in his film âThe Passion of the Christâ â but apparently, he feels that Protestants are also doomed to damnation. In fact, it looks like Gibson, a conservative Catholic, believes that his Episcopalian wife could be going to hell. Gibson was interviewed by the Herald Sun in Australia, and the reporter asked the star if Protestants are denied eternal salvation. âThere is no salvation for those outside the Church,â Gibson replied. âI believe it.â He elaborated: âPut it this way. My wife is a saint. Sheâs a much better person than I am. Honestly. Sheâs, like, Episcopalian, Church of England. She prays, she believes in God, she knows Jesus, she believes in that stuff. And itâs just not fair if she doesnât make it, sheâs better than I am. But that is a pronouncement from the chair. I go with it.â Gibson also said in the interview that he was nearly suicidal before he made his controversial film. âI got to a very desperate place. Very desperate. Kind of jump-out-of-a-window kind of desperate,â he said in the interview. âAnd I didnât want to hang around here, but I didnât want to check out. The other side was kind of scary. And I donât like heights, anyway. But when you get to that point where you donât want to live, and you donât want to die, itâs a desperate, horrible place to be. And I just hit my knees. And I had to use âThe Passion of the Christâ to heal my wounds.â Gibsonâs rep wasnât available for comment. |
| Posted by:muck4doo |
| #9 While agreeing this crap has no place here, I wanted to add that when Gibson was referring to 'from the chair' he likely was referring to the Pope speaking 'ex cathedra.' This essentially means hat the Pope declares he is speaking infallibly on a particular subject. Speakin 'ex cathedra' is extremely rare (I do not think the current Pope has done it) and in 12 years of Catholic school I never heard of such a pronouncement stating that Protestants would go to Hell. |
| Posted by: JAB 2004-2-11 11:05:43 PM |
| #8 And this crap is here because... |
| Posted by: Robert Crawford 2004-2-11 8:54:20 PM |
| #7 I stand corrected. Gibson is in fact Roman Catholic, but attends Tridentine Mass. His views fit seem to fit in well with the TCC's, though. |
| Posted by: 11A5S 2004-2-11 8:29:47 PM |
| #6 Not that Tridentine Mass isn't done in Roman Catholicism; on the contrary, I've heard that Pope John Paul II has been pushing for its reinstitution, at least where desired ... |
| Posted by: Lu Baihu 2004-2-11 7:04:09 PM |
| #5 Gibson belongs to a cult-like splinter off (does that make them Protestants?/sarcasm off) the Roman Catholic Church known as the Tridentine Catholic Church. They reject the Second Vatican Council reforms and still say the mass in Latin. They think that the current church hierarchy is a bunch of heretics. |
| Posted by: 11A5S 2004-2-11 6:36:29 PM |
| #4 If he's like this at home then when her time comes as it does to us all she can truely say she's served her time in Hell |
| Posted by: Cheddarhead 2004-2-11 6:33:16 PM |
| #3 ... where she can play soccer with Usama Bin Laden and the Mexican National soccer team, right, muck4doo? |
| Posted by: tu3031 2004-2-11 4:35:26 PM |
| #2 The belief that Non-Catholics are damned is called Triumphalism and is a heresy as stated by the Catholic church. |
| Posted by: domingo 2004-2-11 4:22:10 PM |
| #1 He claims it is a 'pronouncement from the chair' I don't know what he's talking about, but the current Pope and no recent one has ever said any crap about Protestants going to hell. Sounds like he has gone bye-bye. Shame too, I really enjoy his movies. I'm not judging his Christianity at all by the way. But his whole suicide thing and making this movie and all seems like he's gone crazy. |
| Posted by: Swiggles 2004-2-11 4:04:51 PM |