“You should have seen her breasts, Jesus, they were amazing!”
It continues to astound me that those who claim to be holier-than-though, or have that direct hotline to Jesus are the ones who are the furthest away from what they claim to be. Mel Gibson’s latest over the top drama is testament to that, but is is by far not the most hypocritical that I have seen over the years.
Before I launch into Mr. Gibson and his penchant for Russian girls named Oksana, let’s take a trip down evangelical memory lane and see just how faithful to ‘the Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ’ these people actually are. Our first stop, if you’d care to look out the left side of the tour bus, is the home of none other than Jimmy Swaggart, American TV evangelist, liar and cheat.
1988: TV evangelist quits over sex scandal
Jimmy Swaggart, America’s leading television evangelist, has resigned from his ministry after it was revealed he had been consorting with a prostitute.
We all have our times of weakness, that is true enough, No one is perfect, but Mr. Swaggart hailed down all sorts of foul accusations on fellow evangelist, Jim Bakker, who was shagging his secretary. Low and behold, Swaggart is found shagging outside his marriage too, but Swaggart stayed away from the predictable secretary sex, and went straight to the bottom of the barrel and shagged a cheap whore. Oh, what class!
So now we have our own modern day scandal. Mel Gibson’s latest woes wouldn’t be an issue if he were anyone else in Hollywood. Marriages fail. A new woman comes along. They turn up together at a movie premiere. Sounds pretty much standard Hollywood to me. However, there is one really contradictory part to this story. Mel Gibson proclaims to be a devout Catholic. Not just born a Catholic and then forgot about it. Not a lapsed Catholic. A devout Catholic. You know, Church EVERY Sunday, Rosary beads, the whole shabang. But it doesn’t stop there. He has built his own church on his property in California and he practises a form of Catholicism that went out of style in around 1962. He is a traditional Catholic, which means that he goes to Mass that is said in Latin, which has very old fashioned and outdated values attached to it as well.
Obviously, being Catholic means that one does not believe in divorce, and infidelity is simply out of the question. Not to mention if his new girlfriend is pregnant, there is the dilemma of whether abortion will be considered(definite no no) or will it be born out of wedlock and brought up a Catholic (an even bigger no no).
Throughout his career, Mel Gibson has made no secret of his staunch Catholicism. Several years ago, he told the press: ”I go to an all-pre-Vatican II Latin mass. There was a lot of talk, particularly in the ’60s, of ‘Wow, we’ve got to change with the times.’ But the Creator instituted something very specific, and we can’t just go change it.”
So here is Gibson, being Captain Catholic, and making sure the world knows it. The right wing love him because of his staunch traditional views. Now we see him cavorting with young hotties on the beach. It would make things look a bit better for him if this was a mature woman, and the relationship ‘developed’ after the divorce, say a couple of years down the track. It would still go totally against what he preaches, but at least people would go a little easier on him.
When will these people learn to keep their high and mighty self righteous views to themselves, so one day it doesn’t come back to bite them on the arse? None of us are perfect, but at least most of us have the guts to say it. I once worked with a woman who was a devout Christian. The way she treated the people around her was appalling. She was vindictive, nasty, not to mention incompetent. But it was us who were blamed for her incompetence. She would humiliate staff and then go off to teach God songs to the children. But hey, she went to church on Sunday, so that’s alright.
I have no issue with people being devout in their religion. It’s the hypocrisy that stuns me. Plus the fact that they persecute others for not believing what they believe. I have always said that if Jesus himself came back to earth, these two bit holier-than-though types would be the ones Jesus would least likely want in his close circle. They are just so dillusional, that they believe they would be the ones who would elbow everyone else out in order to get a private audience. Sad, really.
I think atheist Christopher Hitchens got it right when he named his book ‘God is Not Great – How Religion Poisons Everything’. Unfortunately for the right wing, they forgive their own a little too easily. Pity they don’t have that compassion for every other member of the world community.
April 29, 2009
Be wary of the over zealous Christian.
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“You should have seen her breasts, Jesus, they were amazing!”
It continues to astound me that those who claim to be holier-than-though, or have that direct hotline to Jesus are the ones who are the furthest away from what they claim to be. Mel Gibson’s latest over the top drama is testament to that, but is is by far not the most hypocritical that I have seen over the years.
Before I launch into Mr. Gibson and his penchant for Russian girls named Oksana, let’s take a trip down evangelical memory lane and see just how faithful to ‘the Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ’ these people actually are. Our first stop, if you’d care to look out the left side of the tour bus, is the home of none other than Jimmy Swaggart, American TV evangelist, liar and cheat.
We all have our times of weakness, that is true enough, No one is perfect, but Mr. Swaggart hailed down all sorts of foul accusations on fellow evangelist, Jim Bakker, who was shagging his secretary. Low and behold, Swaggart is found shagging outside his marriage too, but Swaggart stayed away from the predictable secretary sex, and went straight to the bottom of the barrel and shagged a cheap whore. Oh, what class!
So now we have our own modern day scandal. Mel Gibson’s latest woes wouldn’t be an issue if he were anyone else in Hollywood. Marriages fail. A new woman comes along. They turn up together at a movie premiere. Sounds pretty much standard Hollywood to me. However, there is one really contradictory part to this story. Mel Gibson proclaims to be a devout Catholic. Not just born a Catholic and then forgot about it. Not a lapsed Catholic. A devout Catholic. You know, Church EVERY Sunday, Rosary beads, the whole shabang. But it doesn’t stop there. He has built his own church on his property in California and he practises a form of Catholicism that went out of style in around 1962. He is a traditional Catholic, which means that he goes to Mass that is said in Latin, which has very old fashioned and outdated values attached to it as well.
Obviously, being Catholic means that one does not believe in divorce, and infidelity is simply out of the question. Not to mention if his new girlfriend is pregnant, there is the dilemma of whether abortion will be considered(definite no no) or will it be born out of wedlock and brought up a Catholic (an even bigger no no).
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So here is Gibson, being Captain Catholic, and making sure the world knows it. The right wing love him because of his staunch traditional views. Now we see him cavorting with young hotties on the beach. It would make things look a bit better for him if this was a mature woman, and the relationship ‘developed’ after the divorce, say a couple of years down the track. It would still go totally against what he preaches, but at least people would go a little easier on him.
When will these people learn to keep their high and mighty self righteous views to themselves, so one day it doesn’t come back to bite them on the arse? None of us are perfect, but at least most of us have the guts to say it. I once worked with a woman who was a devout Christian. The way she treated the people around her was appalling. She was vindictive, nasty, not to mention incompetent. But it was us who were blamed for her incompetence. She would humiliate staff and then go off to teach God songs to the children. But hey, she went to church on Sunday, so that’s alright.
I have no issue with people being devout in their religion. It’s the hypocrisy that stuns me. Plus the fact that they persecute others for not believing what they believe. I have always said that if Jesus himself came back to earth, these two bit holier-than-though types would be the ones Jesus would least likely want in his close circle. They are just so dillusional, that they believe they would be the ones who would elbow everyone else out in order to get a private audience. Sad, really.
I think atheist Christopher Hitchens got it right when he named his book ‘God is Not Great – How Religion Poisons Everything’. Unfortunately for the right wing, they forgive their own a little too easily. Pity they don’t have that compassion for every other member of the world community.
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