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Screw that noise, Campbell!

He should know better, being an upstanding representative of Christianity!

It doesn't say anything about drunk driving in the "good book" so it must be OK.

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Ah he's a catholic, not a christian. A member of a catholic cult at that. Yes, there's a difference. Catholics pray to saints and weird stuff like that. Christians pray to God.

Maybe Mel was out getting a little side action? In the 80s he was known as quite the pu$$y hound - even though he was married.

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"Catholics pray to saints and weird stuff like that. Christians pray to God."

Both are imaginary. You might as well pray to unicorns... or Sergeant Riggs.

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"Let he who is without sin cast the first stone"
Jesus.

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Hell Yeah! Party at Mel's! Power to my Fellow DUI'ers and my Future DUI'ers in HighSchool and College! ROCK ON! Let's PARTY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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I agree with Campbell.

Christians and Catholics are both consist generally of good people and just because he got pulled over has no reflection on anyone's faith or the tenets of christianity. Actually, its pretty pathetic that any of you have to demonish anyone else's beliefs are ideologies because of a specific action ... I guess small minds, small thinking.

Maybe one day someone will do us all a favor and hit all of you while their drinking and driving so the world won't be so full or ineptitude, misunderstanding, and general incompetence.

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He always seemed to act like an alcoholic though we (the public) would of course never see him drink. The intensity, the mania, dualistic personality...

Poor guy, if he did in fact get a DUI and turns our to be an alcoholic - I hope he gets the help he needs - and I'm not even Christian....

Used to enjoy his movies before he went all crazy religified and anti-semite like his pappy.

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FYI Catholics are Christians.

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The Passion of the Lush.

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Um, "bgdc", Catholics don't pray TO saints, we pray in intersession through them, pretty much meaning we tell saints what we want to pray about, and since they are so close to God, they repeat our prayers to him. Cathoolics also pray to God like other Christians. Next time get your facts straight before you try to bash another religion, which isn't very Christian if you ask me.

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So what. He's no different then the rest of us. I will still pay to see his movies and even though there are no dui's in my past, I should have been bagged more than once.

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Let's start a comment-holy-war!!

Enter the Thunderdome!!!

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His "Passion of the Christ" would better be called " Good Friday the 13th". That movie was exploitation of the Christian masses at its worse!
On another note... Mel was angry with Swarsanegger for not returning a his call regarding a political matter a while ago. Mel, you're a nobody like anyone else. I wouldn't return your call either.

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Hey, Paul, your Christian words warmed my heart. Yes, by all means, wishing that "intolerant" people get run over by drunk drivers is a fabulous way to confirm that Christians are worthy of respect and love.

Gibson has made a big deal out of being holier-than-thou. Why wouldn't we all have a good chuckle about him being a freakin hypocrite?

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Catholics ARE Christians, and we don't treat saints as if they were God. We ask saints for their intercession. Catholics might ask St. Hilary of Poitiers to interceed and talk to God about the help you need for your ignorance. (She is the patron saint of backward children.) This is the same thing as if you were to ask your neighbor to pray for you.

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"... I guess small minds, small thinking. "

Er, us non-Christians aren't the ones constantly claiming that you have to be saved and that we have all the answers, Paul. I support any Christian's right to believe whatever he or she wants and to live their lives as they choose. Pity Christians don't feel the same way about us.

For my part, whenever a bigshot in the religious or neo-conservative political community (as if there's a difference nowadays) gets caught doing something stupid or illegal, I'm delighted. But that doesn't keep someone like three-time divorcee & pill-popper Rush Limbaugh from extolling the sanctity of marriage or the importance of the war on drugs, does it? Besides, if Mel is Catholic he's more or less required to enjoy his alcohol. All that guilt needs some kind of lubrication.

I like Mel as an actor and I'm sure he'll shrug this DUI thing off.

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What if I said I was a drug addict and a Christian? Would that make me a raging hypocrite? Or, perhaps, would it make me a human being? A human being desperately in need of Christ's saving grace...

And if I, as a drug addict, said drugs were wrong, wouldn't I be someone who knows precisely why from personal experience?

I'm not aware of Mel Gibson claiming to be "holier than thou," if he did, that's wrong. But I get the impression everyone expects him to ACTUALLY BE holier than thou. Isn't that a contradiction?

-Pie

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He used to be such a good driver, if you believe those Mad Max movies, why couldn't he just outrun them? I wonder if he was weaving, or were the county-mounties just pulling over everybody at that time of night? That's LA for you, it's overpoliced as crazy.
I can forgive him a 502, I just can't forgive him for that bit with the bent nails in Passion...

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Um, didn't you see mel Gibson, make a big deal about the Terry Schiavo thing, while eating a shrimp dinner. I have no problem with having beleifs, because I do, but I also know for a fact that all religious institutions in this country are mostly controllled by Pat robertson, and Gerry falwell. mel Gibson, cannot make political statements like this, if he wants people to beleive him, for saying that he made,"the passion of the Christ, into a religous statement, from his own personal beliefs. You can't say that, and then bvut into other human being's private matters. especially when it was nobody's business at all, but the right, being the disgusting pigs that they are slandered her husbadnd, Micheal Schiavo. the man who wouldn't divorce his wife for any money at all, was framed as a murderer. the said he purposfully delayed calling 911 on that day.

That being said, I am a fan. I think he is a great director, and a decent actor, but I have to think of him, the same way I think of Charleton Heston. I love their work, but they've both lost it, and are a little far out there in real life.

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Yo, ya'll leave Mel alone. He's an ordinary guy just like everyone else. The End.

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