I've never been one to buy into all the wild conspiracy theories that get bandied about these days but remember that just because most conspiracy theories amount to wild ravings doesn't mean there are no conspiracies. And learning that you're paranoid doesn't mean they're not out to get you.

We were in NYC over the weekend and I remember reading that Mel Gibson is building (has built?) a Roman Catholic church in LA that is not part of any recognized diocese and will offer Mass in Latin. I'm not familiar with Roman Catholic ecclesiastical practice but can this be considered a canonical Roman Catholic church?

I don't really follow the lives of actors so I wasn't aware of the movie thing. I figure he can make a movie about anything he wants and audiences can buy tickets or not, just as with any movie.

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WARNING! The following content is meant neither to impugn nor alter anyone's belief system, whatever that may be.

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• Original Christian theology didn't hold Jews responsible for Jesus' crucifixion. Any sects that added that idea did so later and just made it up out of their own hatred.
  
• In Christian theology, Jesus is the only man ever born for the purpose of dying. For Christians to blame someone for Jesus' death is to miss the whole point of their religion.
  
• The original Christians were Jews. It was necessary to be a Jew in order to be a Christian. The first Christians went to Temple with everyone else and just stayed after services to add their own Christian appendix to the service.
  
• The books of the New Testament were not composed to act as the history of anything. Like much of the Old Testament, they were originally composed to be sung during worship, not as an academic record of events.
  

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      - Mark