Aren't all the gospels "antiquated"?
Um, I think that was the point.
Calling something "antiquated" isn't an abject slur. The Amish live an antiquated lifestyle in many respects. By saying that, am I insulting them? Of course not.
One thing is for sure: Mr. Gibson's movie certainly has sounded the alarm for the loonies on all sides. It's a movie, for cryin' out loud.
I have sent a number of emails complaining to Fox's website recently for routinely showing only negative articles about the Passion movie, and positive ones about Janet Jackson, and other things I had believed were specifically to annoy the Religious Right. In particular from their idiot collumnist Rodger Friedman. With no response and a continued effort to attack this movie on the most scurilous and scattershot angles that would make Abe Foxman blush, I am official done visiting their website. I am convinced that they are the Country Club Republican types who loath the Religious Right and are seeking to discredit it in order to make a more palatable Republican Party. No wonder Drudge hates them so much.
Balance this.
I think most Traditionalist Catholics accept Vatican II as a legitimate Council, but accept it in the light of tradition, as Pope Paul VI and Pope John Paul II said it must be interpreted. The texts of the Second Vatican Council are pastoral in nature and not ex cathedra statements, and any ambiguities in them(and there are a few ambigious passages that have been twisted to fit a modernist interpretation) have to be interpreted in light of all of Sacred Scripture, Tradition and the other Councils, not vice versa.
Whenever a liberal Catholic sneers at a pre-Vatican II practice with the condescending words, "That's pre-Vatican II!", I reply with, "So was Jesus".