[Marxism] The Passion: Did Mel Gibson Read Aleksander Wat's ?

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Did Mel Gibson read Aleksander Wat's "Lucifer Unemployed"?.

In 1927 a Ploish writer called Aleksander Wat wrote a little interesting book 
with the Polish title  "Bezrobotny Lucyfer". This little book has gone through 
many reprints. The latest is by Northwestern University Press (1990). In that 
book under the chapter  "The Eternally Wandering Jew", Aleksander Wat published 
Nathan the Jew's lengthy letter which, if the answer to my question is yes, 
might have empowered Mel Gibson to be the passion maker of the 21st century.

An excerpt of Nathan's letter (pp. 11 - 12; italics in original):

"Theferore, Jew must, first of all. accept Catholicism en mass. Impossible? I 
would answer - certum quia impossible. The time has come for us to revise our 
attitude toward Christainity. How many young Jews have I seen, burning with 
adoration for the Savior, striking their foreheads against cold church marbels! 
How many of them have I seen feverish from a strange concoction of Zionism, 
Catholicism, and Communism. Millions of eastern Jews shake off the cadaverous 
incomprehensibility of rabbinity in mysticism, that mutation of souls. The 
kabbalah has prepared them for the unity of the Trinity. Their amor dei 
intellectualis allows them to recognize themselves in the world church of the 
fisherman Simon Peter, in the church of John, whose logos is of the Alexandrian 
Jew Philo. Let us not deceive ourselves: Christ has long ceased being the 
difference between us. The Eternally Wandering Jew wants to rest. He will find 
death under the cross, death, followed by a rebirth. Two thousand years
 ago, the Jew denied Christ in order to exist. Today, in order to exist, he 
must adore him."

With Mel Gibson's passion for Christ like a bush fire, one wonders whether he 
might have taken a leaf of inspiration from misreading this text? If so, then 
the film is not only a waste of resources but a tragedy for the seed of 
confusion it has began to sow.

Sometimes in life the "passion-flower" climbs up the wrong building and gets 
consume in a blaze of fire ball.

All the best.

Moses


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