This might be very true..considering what he went through just to make the movie, "passion of the christ".  But maybe it's just a rumor....what does everyone else think?
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There is a difference between a zealous christian and an anti-semite.\n\nIt's not as if Mel Gibson wrote the gospels, he just made a movie based on them.  And I doubt very much that he made the movie only so that he could show Jesus being cruxified by the Jews.\n\nI think it's just a rumour that was started by a few people who were opposed to a national release of a movie based on the gospels.
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Having read the four gospels several times, I'm fairly confident that he did exist as a person. As an atheist, however, I feel certain that he was not the son of God and that many of the events described in the gospels are metaphorical. I do strongly believe that he was an extremely charismatic individual who was a positive force in the world. Of course, many of his teachings (Love thy neighbor, for example) came from Judaism.
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the director of "The Passion of the Christ
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I heard he was shot in the making of the crow.  but i don't know how legitamate it is.  you could research on it??
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That sounds interesting, its possible that the whole idea for the character came from some fraudery... But, there are so many parallel references in movies nowdays, even though James Bond was conspired in 1952. Perhaps your right, but you never know.\n-Sean
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I heard this was a rumor from his trip to Mexico. Apparently, however, the suit is still in court and is pending a verdict. The real truths will come out on the stand. Link below is to a TheSmokingGun article describing the suit with filed documents.
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duuno if there are any truth to the rumors but the gossip sure is flying around.  you can check out the links below and see if they will answer your question. i personally find all of it funny.
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Priory of Sion and Da Vinci notwithstanding, of course it is possible. Remember that there are many years in the life of Jesus not accounted for in the Bible. Anyone who thinks that he did not have relations during this time period is being a little naive. I'm not saying that there is a conspiracy, just that we need to look at him as a man. Now...what would Jesus do?
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I just saw the film.\n\nThe part about how Christianity took pagan beliefs and mixed them in is correct. The fact that Constantine changed the religion (at least to a degree) is correct.  In fact when he ruled that in order to hold government office you had to be a Christian he managed to turn a bunch of pagans into Christians (in name only) over night.  Their underlying pagan beliefs remained the same, they just changed their title.\n\nThe part about the museum having bathroom windows that can be opened is absolutely false. Nor does the museum have bar soap that you can stick a GPS tracer into, they have liquid soap in the bathrooms.\n\nThe Priory has been pretty much determined to be a fraud. (Discovery Channel ran a series of shows which demonstrated this.) Of course, the paranoid will say that the "fraud" is just a cover story and it is exactly what the Priory wants you to think so that they stay secret.  \n\nThe idea that the "royal bloodline" filters down to one and only one woman in Europe seems pretty unbelievable. The Merovingians had many kids, there would have to be several thousand Merovingians by this point in history.\n\nThe idea that Jesus and Magdelene were married, well, not much proof one way or the other. Even if they were, it is that thing about rising from the dead that still sets things apart.\n\nOne idea that I don't think most people have considered is the possibility that the entire DaVinci Code movie and book might just be designed as a meme (brain virus as it were). Designed to "inject" the concept of this bloodline into the populace. Then, when the time is ripe, "they" will unveil a person who is supposedly the descendant in question whom "they" want to setup as a One World Leader.\n\nFrankly I think there is more "fact" in "The Norman Rockwell Code".
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I really liked when Jim Caviezel walked across water when the Anchor Man was interviewing him at the Music Awards.  I didn't believe in him until I saw that.  I thought the Passion was fake.
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Part of the reason that it is coming up now is because of the hype hollywood is making on the upcoming movie the OMEN. Here is an article on the subject I read:\n\nLOS ANGELES (AFP) - With the clamor over religious thriller "The Da Vinci Code" barely fading, a major Hollywood studio is mining the same vein with a Satanic "666" marketing campaign for its new horror film. \n\n"The Omen", a remake of the 1976 horror classic, is the kind of film that routinely makes it big at the box office, appealing to the coveted demographic of young and predominantly male thrill-seekers.\n\nTwentieth Century Fox has banked "The Omen" on a promotional campaign based on "666", the number associated with Satan, based on Revelation, the last book in the Bible.\n\nEven the film's worldwide debut is set for June 6, 2006, or 06/06/06, which the studio conveniently has shortened to 666 in the film's logo.\n\nIn the Christian culture, the number "666" is the symbol of the devil, as related by Revelation 13:18: "This calls for wisdom. If anyone has insight, let him calculate the number of the beast, for it is man's number. His number is 666."\n\n"The Omen" is the story of a father who realizes his adopted infant son, Damien, who has a 666 birthmark on his skull, is a reincarnation of Satan. A maelstrom of death surrounds the boy.\n\n"The prophecy is clear, the signs unmistakable: Armageddon is upon us. On 6/6/06, the omen is revealed...and our darkest fears are realized," says the 20th Century Fox website.\n\nThe use of a Satanic promotional campaign comes at a sensitive time, after this month's release of "The Da Vinci Code" provoked an outcry from religious groups protesting the film's controversial theme of a married Jesus Christ and a     Vatican cover-up.\n\n"Normally, a marketer is going to be very, very wary about using the devil," said Robert Thompson, professor of television at Syracuse University in New York state.\n\n"But 666 has really emerged in the popular culture as a funny thing you bring up when you're talking about a kid misbehaving on the playground, you say 'I bet this one has a 666 on his scalp'," he said.\n\nBut Ted Baehr, president of Movieguide, a conservative Christian publication, warned the marketing could backfire.\n\n"Any time you overemphasize the demonic and the satanic, you're feeding the lesser instincts of people who're susceptible," he told AFP.\n\n"The marketing can be the biggest drawback of the movie."
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I have watched this movie several times and to tell you the truth, I felt bad after every viewing.  Not bad in the "I shouldn't have watched this" way, but bad that I have a part in nailing Jesus to the cross, even today.  I actually cried when I first watched it, and I am not one of those people that cry at movies, but this was a moving experience for me.  \n\nThe movie was adapted from a book that a num wrote a couple of hundred years ago.  She had visions from Jesus about what the Passion was like, and was told all of this in great detail, including how many times He was whipped, and the crown of thorns and everything else.\n\nI haven't read the book, but am still looking for it, but I have heard, from people who have read it, that the movie is very close to what this nun had written.\n\nI don't think the movie was supposed to "bring people to Christianity", but was meant to show people how Jesus suffered.  I agree that something should have been done about the Resurection, since Passion referes to the crusifixtion, death and resurection, but I did kind of like the ending, showing Him walking out of the tomb.
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WOW! Although I am not answering this news is too exciting not to put an input in on. I hope so.\n\n\nOkay I searched it and found this:\nhttp://www.cnn.com/2006/SHOWBIZ/Movies/10/20/film.fraggle.reut/index.html\n\n\nITiS TRUE!!
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I can only speak from my personal experience in this life. I have read the bible and I have done some reseach. I have been in church and heard sermons. The conclusion I came to, is that the bible is for the most part a well intentioned spiritual text. It is written by men inspired by that which inspires all human kind. I do not believe it was written by God anymore than the Da Vinci Code is written by God.  Perhaps God wrote both? Perhaps Dan Brown in 1000 years will be considered a prophet of God. Who knows? The world is very crazy place. A person writes a book with certain intentions and before they know it , the world has twisted the message. So, quoting the bible to me as an authority on spiritual matters is a waste of time.  Just my two cents.
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Put it out. Christians already know the truth and know that in the end times, these types of things will be thrown at them. Hollywood tries any way it can to destroy Chrisianity because they are a bunch of Godless idiots. Whomever made the film will have to bow one day and explain their actions.
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Unfortunately, it's just a rumor. The actors have only been in talks recently to sign on for a 4th. Therefore, the only conclusion you can come to, is that it's not true. Even though it hasn't happened yet--I see nothing wrong with having four more movies..! =)
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I heard a story today that when Mel Gibson was making the movie "The Passion", he stopped production when the actors were recreating the scene where the nails were put through Jesus' hands.  Mel then went to the actor with the nails, took the hammer, and proceeded to do the nailing himself.  This was an acknowlegment that he was directly responsible for Jesus being on the cross, just as much as if he'd been there with the hammer in his hand.  That touched me because it is true for me.  My sins held Him on the cross.  He chose to go to that cross to pay for them.  To answer your question, I already did.