In one of a series of inflammatory remarks quoted in this week's The New Yorker [unfortunately not on the website - ed.], Gibson accuses "modern secular Judaism" of trying "to blame the Holocaust on the Roman Catholic Church".Not sure what that has to do with Gibson's historical revisionism (Jesus didn't speak Latin, and some scenes are from ecstatic visions by 18th century nuns), but unfortunately the Catholic Church was heavily implicated in the Shoah, not only by not speaking out, but by encouraging the antisemitism in which Naziism grew. It's not a lie. It's not revisionism. (via Damian Penny)
"It's a lie. And it's revisionism," said Gibson, a follower of Traditionalist Catholicism that still performs the Latin Tridentine mass. "And they've been working on that one for a while."
PS David Kertzer and Daniel Goldhagen both spoke at the YIVO Conference on Antisemitism in New York this spring.
UPDATE: Here's a Mel Gibson Script-o-matic for those of you who want to craft your own flaky Gibson-flavored Jesus movie. (via Electrolite)
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