I love it, why does Braveheart, or really Mel Gibson with,as the girls tel me a tight little arse, engender such feelings?

No Hollywood film is accurate and allowing for the times there is a lot of folklore around even the actual incidents used in the film (out of time and context mind you).

I don't hear many scream about the legends of the bibles (old and new testaments) The writing of an oral tradition in one case thousands of years old and then living by it as a tort of law! Then the NT not committed to paper until 60 years after the death of JC (what year AD that is remains to be agreed) written in Greek and with a number of translations and sources - same stories from different routes.

So if Mel wasn't Braveheart then who was JC and was the real man the best con artist ever, a misguided headcase or really who he said he was and (we are all dommed Mr Mannering doomed - Scottish link - British Joke sorry everyone else) where do we get our fact in the films depicting him and those times?

hee hee - wickid I know - I expect you all to ignore me, or to launch in to vitiolic debate wiht absolutely no possible solution.

:-)

Andy