Mel Gibson taught us all how not to live our lives last week when he verbally assaulted his local police departement. . .oh, and all Jews everywhere. Gibson's harsh words can easily be found on every news organization's front page. Chaseblogger, however, will focus on the example he is currently setting. One this entire world could stand to learn. Admit your wrong-doings and ask the person or persons involved to forgive you. The World Wide Web, being a branch of the media, is largely liberal and will certainly not give much credit to Gibson's recent words. Please take the time to read and learn how its done.
"There is no excuse, nor should there be any tolerance, for anyone who thinks or expresses any kind of Anti-Semitic remark. I want to apologize specifically to everyone in the Jewish community for the vitriolic and harmful words that I said to a law enforcement officer the night I was arrested on a DUI charge.
I am a public person, and when I say something, either articulated and thought out, or blurted out in a moment of insanity, my words carry weight in the public arena. As a result, I must assume personal responsibility for my words and apologize directly to those who have been hurt and offended by those words.
The tenets of what I profess to believe necessitate that I exercise charity and tolerance as a way of life. Every human being is God’s child, and if I wish to honor my God I have to honor his children. But please know from my heart that I am not an anti-Semite. I am not a bigot. Hatred of any kind goes against my faith.
I’m not just asking for forgiveness. I would like to take it one step further, and meet with leaders in the Jewish community, with whom I can have a one on one discussion to discern the appropriate path for healing.
I have begun an ongoing program of recovery and what I am now realizing is that I cannot do it alone. I am in the process of understanding where those vicious words came from during that drunken display, and I am asking the Jewish community, whom I have personally offended, to help me on my journey through recovery. Again, I am reaching out to the Jewish community for its help. I know there will be many in that community who will want nothing to do with me, and that would be understandable. But I pray that that door is not forever closed.
This is not about a film. Nor is it about artistic license. This is about real life and recognizing the consequences hurtful words can have. It’s about existing in harmony in a world that seems to have gone mad." - Mel Gibson
2 comments:
Well, he's a rich celebrity so he's not responsible for what he does.
While his words are poetic, they're meaningless.
Esspecially considering that he's stated time and time again how wrong it is that he's been accused of anti-semitism in his movie and in character.
And Christians as a whole defended him, obviously desperate to have a big hollywood figure on their side.
This man is a heavily indoctrinated member of a Jew-hating cult. There's no way those words just spewed out of his mouth during a moment of drunken insanity. These are things he's meditated upon.
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