Get this into your thick skulls, liberal hacks: Mel Gibson is not a Roman Catholic

Telegraph ^ | July 19, 2010 | Damian Thompson

[NYer]

The final meltdown of Mel Gibson has come at a convenient time for Catholic-baiters in the media. The guy threatens violence against women, he’s a racist and he’s a CATHOLIC! Here’s Lucy Mangan in The Guardian, stooping almost as low as Gibson:

Received wisdom is that Gibson cannot recover from this. But one course is still open to him. If ever priesthood beckoned a man, it is surely now. At least he apparently saves his violence for adult females.

And if you don’t understand that last dig, let me point you to Times columnist Caitlin Moran, who explained on Thursday that the Catholic Church “f**** kids”.

The slurs against Catholics being put about liberal journalists aren’t far removed from Protocols territory, if you ask me. But dragging Gibson into this rancid rhetoric doesn’t work, for a simple reason.

He’s not a Catholic.

In fact, Mel Gibson is in some respects the opposite of a Catholic, since one of the themes of his fake Catholicism is that the Pope isn’t the Pope. Admittedly, Mel’s own theology tends to morph like a shape-shifting lizard, depending on how hung over he is, but in so far as he’s anything he’s a sedevacantist like his father, Hutton Gibson.

Sedevacantists regard the Second Vatican Council as so obviously evil that it must have been the work of Satan, and therefore the Pope who called it and his successors aren’t really Popes. Gibson Senior once reportedly described John Paul II as “Garrulous Karolus the Koran kisser” and has put about the notion that the last real Pope was secretly elected at the 1958 conclave but forced to resign in favour of anti-pope John XIII. But then old man Gibson never met a conspiracy theory he didn’t like; hence his well-documented Holocaust and 9/11 revisionism.

[johngrace]

I Just prayed A Divine Mercy. An St Gertrude the Great free souls prayer.

[Mrs. Don-o]

It is significant to me that people who reject the infinite God, almost invariably have to put something else into the "Infinity Placeholder." For some reason, inexplicable to philosophical materialism, we have brains with the intricate and "evolutionarily" irrelevant and expensive capacity to think of things which actually do not exist in the physical universe: the infinity of primes, the infinity of the decimal places in pi (now calculated to 10 trillion places and still going), eternity, transcendance, a perfect circle.

For some reason, our brains were built to specifications which go beyond material reality as we know it.

So: an never-ending series of parallel universes, eh? Just another "fix" to fill the God-shaped hole. I will certainly bow my head and pray for your brother and for all souls who feel inexplicably out of place, souls who all their lives have been longing for...What?

[Salvation]

Thanks for posting the truth. Just because a man can build a chapel/church and hire dissenting priests to say a Mass, does not mean he is an active Catholic.

In fact, his church is not even recognized by the Diocese of Los Angeles.

Cardinal Mahoney wouldn’t do anything about it, and I suspect Archbishop Gomez is quietly working in the background as is his style!

[red irish]

Mel into Soupy Sales, I remember him and yes you’re right he does.

[Cronos]

You’re in for a sad surprise and awakening one day my friend. I hope it’s prior to you crossing over into eternity.

Ah, so someone from some fringe group like the moonies, Seventh day Adventists etc who is not even in the orthodox Protestatn groups like the orthodox Anglicans, Lutherans / Methodists now is able to interpret and speak for God

What do they call the "pasters" in your group? Prophets? Or Imams?

Bah, no wonder the 6th and 7th generation Protestant groups die out so quickly (the first gen: took 500 years, like the Arians, Marcionites etc., the 4th and 5th (Baptist, Pentecostals) burn out in 50-70 years and now the new 6th generation is led by loonies deviating completely from Christ's teachings and no wonder it burns out quickly)

Charlatans all..

[Cronos]

ha! Baptists came from Anabaptists who came from Puritans who came from the Anglicans

The Baptist faith originated from within the English Separatist movement. Prior to the Protestant Reformation, the Church of England (Anglicans) had broken away from the Catholic Church. Then came the mainstream Reformation

Then came John Smyth

in 1606, John Smyth, a Fellow of Christ’s College, Cambridge, had broken his ties with the Church of England. Reared in the Church of England, he became "Puritan, English Separatist, and then a Baptist Separatist," and ended his days working with the Mennonites

[Cronos]

Yes, leave your false group and join Christ’s Church, the One Holy Apostolic Catholic Church

[evangmlw]

John the “Baptist,” the forerunner of Jesus Himself, came long before the ana-baptist and the catholics.

[Cronos]

Ha ha, so now you use the suffix of St. John to justify the creation of a sect in the 1600s?

Baptists were founded by John Smyth, an English separatist in 1609 who was reared in the Church of England, he became "Puritan, English Separatist, and then a Baptist Separatist," and ended his days working with the Mennonites

The guy was first in the Anglicans, then joined the Calvinist, then jumped to the English Separatists, then the Baptist separatists and then the Mennonites.

Baptists then took much of their stuff from Anabaptists and ta da created their mix, founded by Smyth, not by Christ. Just another man-made religion that denies and attacks Christ's ONE Holy Apostolic Catholic Church,