Passion Assumptions

In this post from a couple of weeks ago, a commenter wondered why Mel Gibson didn't portray himself as one of those nailing Jesus to the cross, if the true intent was to show that we are all responsible for Jesus' crucifixion. The commenter went on to say that Gibson would never make such a bold statement in the film.

Well, Alan at Theosebes links to an article in Chronicles Magazine which reveals that Gibson has done just that:

But nothing I have read about Passion suggests that Gibson is making this movie to blame anyone. I was moved by the interviews Gibson and Jim Caviezel, the actor playing Christ, gave EWTN, where they spoke of their desire to use the film to glorify Christ. Indeed Deal Hudson has written that “one of the two glimpses of Gibson in the movie is when you see his hand placing the stake on Christ’s palm—thus underlining Gibson’s own guilt, which in Christian theology he shares with all mankind, for the death of Christ.”

Emphasis mine.