Mel did it for the money . . .
17 May 2006 by Stardust
Those xians who believe that “Passion of the Christ” was made just for them and that Mel-baby wanted to send gawd’s message to the world should read today’s news: Steven Spielberg, Mel Gibson among 50 richest LA media moguls
It’s like I said in a previous post on my blog back in January, Hollywood has found a new group to market to and Mel Gibson did it for the money. The money he gave to charity is miniscule compared to what this man is worth. He is an aging actor who found a way to bring himself back into the spotlight and to make a bunch of money for himself.
“Gibson, who produced and directed the blockbuster “The Passion of the Christ,” took the 47th spot with 850 million dollars, making him the top actor on the list.”
17 May 2006, on 11:12 am
What a genius Mel Gibson is! Let’s see, xians love their jizzus beaten and bloodied, so I’ll give it to ‘em for tweo hours. Watch him bleed for you. See how he gets the shit kicked out of him for you! That’s what your faith is all about.
17 May 2006, on 11:18 am
Money is why ALL televangelists are in the business too. As Star (where has she been?) has pointed out her nephew-in-law (right?) got a “call” from gawd once he couldn’t pass the bar and now his whole life is paid for by the church. Money is why all of them get into it. Though I would exclude preists and nuns from this as not many of them get to live like the gluttonous Pope does.
17 May 2006, on 11:21 am
That’s funny because at the time everyone was telling him he would lose his shirt.
17 May 2006, on 11:33 am
I wonder what he thinks about that thing Haysoos says in the bible(going from memory here):
“It is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of the needle than it is for a rich man to enter the kingdom of heaven.”
Or the blessed are the poor stuff.
I wonder what any of the rich xian posterboys think about these passages. Do they have a standard response?
17 May 2006, on 11:34 am
As Star (where has she been?) has pointed out her nephew-in-law (right?) got a “call” from gawd once he couldn’t pass the bar and now his whole life is paid for by the church.
Lya - Lots of crap going on lately to keep me away from my computer.My aging parents are getting to be a handful and lots of other personal matters to take care of.
Yes, that is my nephew-in-law…and guess what? He got a “calling” to go to Alaska (Kodiak Island) where they will get a FREE house that is twice the size of the one their current church has given them, and they get a car allowance, and free health care and life insurance. And he didn’t even have to finish seminary school.
17 May 2006, on 12:40 pm
Hope everything is cool, Star.
ugh that story makes me angry. It sounds like the Stupid leading the Blind and dumb.
17 May 2006, on 1:16 pm
ugh that story makes me angry. It sounds like the Stupid leading the Blind and dumb.
Just wait till their first Kodiak Island winter! I heard they are a bitch. But their imaginary friend will keep them from being cold and lonely. I don’t know how my niece is going to manage. I get the feeling she is just doing what the babble says and being “obedient” to her husband and “whither thou goest” and all that crap.
17 May 2006, on 4:27 pm
Star, as always, I waver between pity and “well-no-one-forced-her-to-marry-him” for your niece. As for your nephew-in-law, it will be interesting for the family to watch how he handles such a place…
17 May 2006, on 4:41 pm
Mel looks alot like another religous nut in that picture… Saddam Husssian. Weird.
17 May 2006, on 4:45 pm
Husssian?
17 May 2006, on 4:51 pm
Star, as always, I waver between pity and “well-no-one-forced-her-to-marry-him” for your niece. As for your nephew-in-law, it will be interesting for the family to watch how he handles such a place…
Eve - The thing is that I don’t understand with my niece is how a very independent and outgoing person let herself be turned into a doormat. (His family are all Baptists, but he got really into the Jeebus thing after he failed the BAR two years after they were married.) I wouldn’t put up with being told what to do and not having any say in anything.
There are three things that could happen after they are in Alaska for awhile. They will 1. LOVE being masochists for the lord with all the subzero weather and loneliness 2. come back after having made up a story that the lord told them that Alaska was not where they are supposed to be after all 3. She will get sick of him and dump him like a hot rock like what happened to his brother when his wife dumped him because he was an asshole.
We shall see.
I should write a book about this saga!
17 May 2006, on 5:28 pm
Star: I should write a book about this saga!
Or an ongoing soap opera: “Desperate Housewife on Kodiak Island!”
17 May 2006, on 6:14 pm
Saddam Hussein was more of a secular leader than a religious one. In fact, his Baathist party was largely socialist. Under him, Iraq was one of the more secular countries in the Middle East. Just wanted to clarify that for you 1TLRMS.
17 May 2006, on 6:16 pm
I think my comment got dumped somehow. Anyhoo, 1TLRMS, Saddam Hussein was a secular dictator, not a religious one. Say what you will about his human rights record and any number of other things, but Iraq was one of the most secular countries in the Middle East under him.
18 May 2006, on 2:05 am
Sorry for the double post. #13 didn’t show up for a while and 14 was 13 and, uh… oh my head… Anyway, the point I made only needed to be made once.
18 May 2006, on 12:19 pm
“Anyhoo, 1TLRMS, Saddam Hussein was a secular dictator, not a religious one. Say what you will about his human rights record and any number of other things, but Iraq was one of the most secular countries in the Middle East under him. ”
Can youshow me some details on this? I’ve only ever heard the opposite.
12 June 2006, on 12:20 am
[...] In a previous post, Lya mentioned Mel Gibson’s new film, Apocalypto, and how it will be yet another snuff movie: this one depicting the end of the Mayan civilization, replete with thousands of human sacrifices (you know, to stave off the wrath of the Spaniards — I mean, the gods). But it can’t just be a straightforward history story with Mel. It needs to exploit people’s desperate belief systems, thereby guaranteeing a built-in audience of suckers, making Mel an even richer man. [...]