Ed:

It is troubling that what you consider "fuckin' nuts" is really just an instance where someone is standing up for something they believe in. The doctrines of the current Catholic church have allowed priests to sexually molest young children --- and later hide this fact --- acts which are morally repugnant in any sensible persons opinion.

The holocaust? I wasn't personally there so I have no way of knowing what REALLY happened. However, it does make me wonder why a person like Ernst Zundel is a political prisoner if what he is saying is not based in fact. It seems to me that if Zundel is being held as a political prisioner, then SOMEONE does not want him to have a public voice.

Why is this, if he is ultimately talking bullshit?

As far as Hutton Gibson is concerned, I have read what he has to say, and he has a lot of good points. He has never mentioned the holocaust in any of his written materials or in the video he sells, so I don't know where that is coming from. What he does do is refer to very explicit and specific points of how the entire Catholic religion differs in dogma and action.

If he was in any way what is made of him publicly, I would never have bothered to get in touch with the guy. You have to understand that people are labeled in ways that support prejudice, and Hutton Gibson a good example of this. If he was that much of a nutjob, wouldn't his son distance himself in some way?

However --- to pretend that Hutton's work is mutually exclusive to the film his son Mel is releasing in just a few days --- is simply unrealistic. In fact, Mel Gibson's films have leaning toward morality play themes during the past ten years or so. In fact, I would even say that Mel is financing his father, as Hutton's newsletter costs only $5.00 per year (four issues).

He talks about the crimes of the Catholic Church and not the Nazi killing of innocent people.

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