LEAVE MEL ALONE

Rabbi Daniel Lapin tells fellow Jews Stop bothering Mel Gibson, and discovers a double standard:

Surely Jewish organizations would carry just a little more moral authority if they routinely protested all attacks on faith, not only those troubling to Judaism.

Amen to that.

BUT THEN THERE'S THIS...

R. Scott Colglazier, senior minister of University Christian Church in Fort Worth, Texas, thinks Mel deserves all the criticism, and finds that Gibson's theology is terribly outdated and naive to boot:

Gibson seems oblivious to the fact that biblical "accounts" of the Crucifixion are not really accounts at all, at least not in the journalistic sense of the word. What we have in the four Gospels are theological portraits of Jesus. The Gospel writers often contradict one another when recounting details about the death of Jesus. And it seems the writers were more concerned with what was occurring at the end of the first century in their own churches than about what happened on the day Jesus was crucified. The villainization of Jews found in these narratives reflects, as much as anything, a strained relationship between church and synagogue at the end of the first century.

Why is it that I find myself siding with a Jewish rabbi instead of the good "senior minister"? I suppose it's because I'm "oblivious", too. I guess I need to attend Colglazier's Christian church so I can be taught how the Bible isn't true after all.

[Thanks to David M. for the link.]