Oh Christ

As I've mentioned in the past, my part time job is church secretary. One of the first things I do every morning is check the church voice mail. This morning there was an automated message from none other than Mel Gibson, asking me to pass along to "your pastor" his sincere thanks for "your support" of his film, and mentioning that "your church can reserve a private showing of my film as part of your Easter celebrations."

Significant in the message is that the promo mentioned "your pastor," pointing to the fact that despite Gibson's echt-Catholic treatment of the Bible story, most of the film's support has been among Evangelical Protestants.